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FILE NAME: Asten Hill (AH) DATE: 1957 Apr 26 DOC#: AH025 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter A s t e n -H i LL M f g .Co. P "llA D tL P M IA 2^ . PA HOLMES #26 April 26, 1957 Asten Dryer Fli Dr. Daniel C. Braun, Medical Director Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, MLUelOl0onFirItnhstiAtvuetneue Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania Inc. Dear Dr. Braun: The Air Hygiene Committee of the Asbestos Textile Institute has had two memorandums from your institute under study i'or -.bout a year now. At the last- meeting of the Air Hygiene Committee in Philadelphia, on March 7th it was the opinion of the. Committee- that both of these memorandums were to be dropped at this time. The first was a memorandum regarding the Environmental. Dust lurvov for the Asbestos Textile Institute. This memorandum was forwarded.from your office on February 29, 1956. The second memorandum was entitled "Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos AorkersT Both of these proposals were rejected at this time for various reasons and, therefore, the writer, as Chairman of \ .t * r Committee, was instructed to inform you of the decision of the Committee on these two memorandums. If at a later date it is the Committee's desire to reopen ei-her of these memorandums you will be so informed. DhH:fk Very truly yours, ilBy \[ * ET K. Holmes, Chairman Air Hygiene Committee Asbestos Textile Institute