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u.v. - J* UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 7/7/SO June 25, 1980 Dear Workshop Attendee: We are pleased that you are planning to attend the National Workshop on Substitutes for Asbestos, sponsored by the Environmental- Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Interagency Regulatory Liason Group. We enclose a draft agenda for this workshop. We hope that you will be attending the technical/economic portion of this workshop, which will include discussion sessions on various categories of substitutes for asbestos. In order to helD plan for these session's, we need to know how many people are participating in each discussion session. The discussion sessions will be held Monday, July 14, 1980, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Please fill out the enclosed form stating whether or not you plan to attend one of these sessions and if so, which one. This form should be returned to us in the envelope provided. Please send us the form by return mail so that we can make the proper arrangements. PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT SAG-50 Enclosures Sincerely, // Richard J. Guimond Chief, Special Regulation Branch DKS 193 ;*' A PI Program "National Workshop on Substitutes for Asbestos: Technical and Economic Aspects July 14 Introductory Remarks and Overview Sessions 8:00-8:05 Introductory Remarks Richard Guimond, Branch Chief, Environmental t 8:05-8:45 Protection Agency Regulatory Status Warren Muir, Environmental Protection Agency and Peter Preuss, Consumer Product Safety Commission 8:45-9:30 Work Session on Friction Products Friction Product Overview Mr. Mike Jacko, Bendix Discussion 9:30-9:45 9:45-10:45 Coffee Break Work Session on Gaskets and Packings Overview of Packings Mr. Steve Koehler, Product Manager, Green Tweed Packing Company Overview of Gaskets Speaker to be announced Discussion 10:45-11:30 Work Session on Plastics and Flooring Speaker to be announced Discussion 11:30-1:00 Lunch Break DKS 194 WW-8 `fr 'IDO BWU lNiad WVl;8 "9 IDO BWU 03AI3D3N 1:00-2:30 2-.30-3:00 V* 3:00-3:30 3:30-5:30 5:30-7:30 7:30-9:00 ! uadi Work Session on Paper Products Single-ply membrane roofing Mr. David E. Bailie, Manager o KMM Membi: ane Systems, Kopoers Company, Inc. Roofing felt Ms. Nancy Roy GCA Corporation Other speakers to he announced Work 3assion on Textiles Dr. Sam Manfer, Program Manager of Textil es Carborundum Company Discussion Coffee Break Round Table Discussion Dinner Break Panel on Development of Substitutes Mr. Bob Moore Elson T. Killam Associates Mr. John Gurtowski Materials Branch Naval Air Systems Command i Mr. Roy Stainfurth Asbestos Workers Union Mr. James F. Reis Director, Asbestos Policy Johns-Manville Corporation M OKI 'ON 3. li 1J ONE owa DKS! 195 IA1V6: 6 00 > IDO July 15* 8:00-9:00 _ Work Session on Sealants Roof Coatings and Cements Mr. Ken Brzozowski, Director TREMCO Associate Research Mr. Eric Worrnser Chairman of the Board The Gibson Homans Company <' Discussion 9:00-9:15 9:15-10:15 Coffee Break Work- Session on Substitutes for Asbestos-Cement Sheet Glass-reinforced concrete Mr. John Jones, Industrial Products Manager Cem-Fil Corporation Other substitutes for asbestos-cement sheet Dr. David Cogley, GCA Corporation Discussion 10:15-11:00 Work Session on Substitutes for Asbestos-Cement Pipe Overview of Substitutes for Asbestos-Cement Pipe Mr. James Warden U.S. Engineering and Research Center U.S. Department of the Interior Discussion 11:00-11^30 ? y\ , 11:30-1:00 Summary Session Lunch Break ^Product and substitute material review session occurs all day DKS 19S WVH:8 '130 3WU iNlNd WVlE*-8 'fr '130 3M1 Q3A1333^1 Agenda National .Workshop on Substitutes for Asbestoss Health Aspects Tuesday, July 15, 1980 1*00 P.M.-l:25 P.M. I. Scope of the Health'Workshop' Workshop Co-Chairs; James N. Rowe, Ph.D, U,S.-Environmental Protection Agency Washington, D.C. Lalita Palekar, Ph.D. Northrup Services Inc. RTP, North Carolina 1*25 P.M.-2:15 P.M. II. overview of the Routes of Exposure Inhalation, Deposition and Clearance of Particles Morton Lippman, Ph.D. * New York University Medical Center New York, New York Fate of Ingested Particles James Millette, Ph.D. Health Effects Research Laboratory U.S, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Ohio 2:15 -- 5 ?15 P,M. Ill- Synthetic Fibrous Substitutes Man-Made vitreous Fibers.* Fibrous Glaes, Mineral Wool, 'Ceramic Fibers Health Aspects of Man-Made Vitreoas Fibers John Konnen, M.D. Chairman TIMA Medical-Scientific Committee Mt. Kiaco, New York * The.'.-Tran8location and Fate of Sized Man-Made Fibers Following Exposure by Intratracheal instillation or Inhalation in*15t'ts David M. Bernstein, Ph.D., Robert T. Drew, Ph.D. Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York and Marvin Kuschner, M.D. Pathology Department State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York fr 'd OH 'ON Id dilE 0W0 &KS 197 WV6t* 6 SOOS'H'iOO -- Occupational Exposure to Mineral Wool Douglas Fowler Senior Industrial Hygienist SRI International Menlo Park,- California Epidemiologic and Environmental Study of the Mortality Patterns cI Rock and Slag Mineral Wool Production Markers Cynthia F. Robinson, M.S., Gregory 0. Ness, M.S., Richard J, Waxveiler, Ph.D. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cincinnati, OH and John M. Dement, Ph.D. Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, West Virginia Industrial Hvgiene and Toxicology Aspects of 3M Nextel 312 Ceramic Fibers Robert S. Larsen, B.S., William C. McCormick,' M.S. 3M Company St. Paul, Minnesota 5:15 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. Dinner Break Evening Session 8:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. IV. Natural Non-Fib'rous Substitutes Talc: Roundtable discussion Session Chair: Arthur M. Langer, Ph.D. Mt.^Sinai School of Medicine of the City University ofy New York NeyilYork, New York (/ DKS 198 `130""3WIi 1MI8J WVlg:8 130 3WU Q3AIB03H Industry-Wide Cross-Sectional Epidemiologic and Industrial hygi Survey of Tele Workers John -Gamble/ M.D,' 'Alice Griefe, Industrial Hygienist National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morgantown, West Virginia Wednesday, July 16, I960 8:00- A.M. - 9100' A.M. III. Synthetic Pibrous Substitutes (continued) Aromatic Polyamide Fibers Toxicology of Aramid$ Fibers Charles P. Reinhardt, M.D'. Dab Director * Haskell laboratory for Toxicology and industrial Med ne .I. Dupont de Nemours and Company, Inc. Wilmington, Delaware Graphite Fibers Environmental Exposure Considerations Qua to the Rel Graphite Fibers burl'ng~Alrcraft Fires a of Benjamin SusshoLz, Ph.D. TRW Defense and Space Systems Redondo Beach, California 9j00 A.M. - 9:15 A.M. OPEN DISCUSSION 9s15 A.M.'- 12:10 P.M. V. Natural Fibrous Substitutes Attapulgite, Wollastonite Cross-sectional Medical Study in Wollastonite worker Brian' Boehlecke, M.D. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Healt Morgantown, West Virginia Mortality Study in Attapulgite workers Richard Waxweiller, Ph.D. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Healt Cincinnati, Ohio 5 'J OH `ON U 1J QM 3W0 D MZ-t COOS 199 100 Fibrous Zeolites Exposure Arthur Rohl, Ph.D. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New Tor New York, New York Cellulose Fibers Hunan Health Studies at Two Industrial Sites Daniel W. Kelly National Cellulose Corporation Houston, Texas Treated Asbestos Fibers Chemical Detoxification of Asbestos Fibers Earl Flowers, Ph.D. Flow General Inc. McLean, Virginia 12:10 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. Lunch Break 2:00 P.M. - 3:30 P.M. IV. Natural Non-Fibrous Substitutes (continued) Mica Review of the Health Effects of Mica Ilmar Lusis . Corporate Manager of Industrial Hygiene Marietta Resources International, LTD. New York, New York Vermiculite HeaTth Studies in the Vermiculite industry Stewart M. Brooks, M.D. College of Medicine Cincinnati, Ohio DKS 200 * VWK:8 'i `100 3WU 1MH<! WVl&:8 100 3WU Q3AI303y X. Perlite Health Considerations in the Perlite Inudstry \\ Clark'Cooper/ M.D. Berkeley, California 3s30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. OPEN DISCUSSION 4:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M. VI. Synthetic Non-Fibrous Substitutes Polyurethane and Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Environmental Exposure During the Mnaufacture and Application of Foams Robert Herrick Industrial Hygienist National Institute for occupational Safety and Health Cincinnati, Ohio Human Pulmonary Function Study (5 years) on Occupational Isocyanate Exposure Hans Weill, M.D, Department of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana 5:00 P.M. - 6;00 P.M. OPEN DISCUSSION .,, Scientific Criteria for Evaluating asbestos Substitutes Lewis Lipkin, M.D. National Cancer Institute Bethesda, Maryland Criteria for Animal, Tissue Culture, and Biochemical Studias on Asbestos, Mineral Dusts, and Proposed Substitutes cor Asbestos t Earl S. Flowers, Ph.D. Flow General Incorporated McLean, Virginia 9 'd OM 'ON 1 u u mi m DKS i01 IM6:6 SOOH' `100 * Name Company or Organization Address I do not plan to attend any Monday afternoon technical/economic discussion sessions. [] I plan to attend the following discussion session, (Please choose only one, as they will be held concurrently). (1) Substitutes for Asbestos-Cement Pipe (for water and sewer pipe use) [] (2) Substitutes for Asbestos-Cement Sheet [] (3) Friction Products (clutches, brakes, etc.) [] (4) Sealants and Roofing Products (roofing felt, roof coatings and cements, etc.) (5) Textiles (6) Flooring and Plastics (7) Paper Products (such as pipeline wrap, roofing felt., millboard, specialty papers, etc.) [] C3 [3 [3 Send this form to: National Workshop on Substitutes for Asbestos Industry Assistance Office Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances (TS-799) Environmental Protection Agency 401 M Street, SW., Washington, D.C., 20460 DKS 202