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FILE NAME: Shipbuilders Council of America (SHIP)
DATE: 2014 Oct 23 DOC#: SHIP302
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Authentication of Shipbuilders Council File as Coming from Manville Archive
AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF COLORADO COUNTY OF ADAMS
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I, Margaret J. Baumgardner, being o f full age and first duly sworn do hereby state:
1. I am not a party to this action. I have personal knowledge o f the facts set forth in this
affidavit, and if called as a witness, I could and would competently testify as to the truth of the
matters set forth herein.
2.
I am the Research Coordinator for the Claims Resolution Management Corporation
("CRMC"), a wholly owned subsidiary o f the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust ("Trust").
The CRMC was created in December 1998 and is staffed by former Trust employees. On January 1,
1999, CRMC began providing claims resolution facility services to the Trust.
3.
In this position, I manage the Asbestos Claims Research Facility ("Facility"), a
document and records repository located at 3390 Peoria Street, Suite 304, Aurora, Colorado. The
Facility contains the business records including but not limited to correspondence, memoranda,
reports, records and data compilations ("record") o f Manville Corporation or related entities
("Manville"), generally, as well as Manville records relevant to litigation o f asbestos liability. The
records found at the Facility were transferred from Manville to the Trust beginning in November 28,
1988, the date on which the Manville bankruptcy plan was consummated. Additional records have
been and continue to be transferred directly to the Facility. The Facility's records have been in the
custody and control o f counsel for the Trust or Trust personnel since the date of consummation.
4.
My experience and familiarity with the documents at the Facility began in 1983 while
working for Manville. In my work as a paralegal for Manville, I assisted in locating, indexing and
packing many o f the records which became the foundation documents for the Facility. I continued to
work for Manville until September 1987. From March 1988 to September 1 9 8 8 ,1 was hired to
supervise and assist in the indexing o f the first 20,000 boxes which were turned over to the Trust in
November 1988. From September 1988 to January 1989, I assisted in the privilege review of
documents to be given to the Trust. From November 1988 to April 1994,1 worked for Freeborn &
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Peters and was put in charge o f the Facility, managing all productions and "new" acquisitions. In
September 1995,1was hired by the Trust to manage the Facility. In December 1998,1was hired by
the CRMC to manage the Facility for the Trust. Accordingly, I am personally familiar with many of
the records stored at the Facility, as well as how the records have been gathered.
5.
To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, I certify that these records were
made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, were kept
in the course o f the regularly conducted business activity of Manville, and it was the regular practice
and the business activity o f Manville to make the records.
6.
Attached are documents found among the file collections at the Facility. These
documents, bates labeled CRMC-ShipbuildersCouncil-Files-000001 through CRMC-
ShipbuildersCouncil-Files-000884, are true and correct copies o f documents found at the Facility.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd day o f October, 2014.
Notary Public
AMY WBENHAM NOTARY PUBLIC STATE OF COLORADO
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 05-23-2016
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