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I'!*: ' ' ' . ,*.> ' , * *,.w,*ff*S*. $*' Al-p-r il 2W5, *I 9Q5Cbi \ a r;R '.- .-v;:'. vt" ' ''I'i i i -- r ; .-- ' Vfr.' - <*>- :J r ! - " iw ** ~>nt' -j -s - ^ ' s_ , "jM' f1'"' f ii" ' ;! M r . L . R . F le c k ' '' SO yt C M pm ttlm ^ . T " 7 100 P a r k A venue , ',j" , . New Y ork City 17 --/ 1( ^ ; , V,i >'* 'i j . D ear Van: I have review ed the d raft of the le tte r to regional and d is tric t m anagers to provide them with inform ation on the problem presented by a proposal fro m any'source to in crease the p erm issib le level of tetraeth y l lead concentration in m otor gasoline. 1 send you herew ith a revision of this d raft to accord with m y thinking. My revision deals only with paragraph 3, which is subm itted herew ith, as revised. A few com m ents m ay be useful in support of the changes I have suggested. V cr u 1 . It is highly im portant that it be recognized w ithin Ethyl C orporation and elsew here, that the investigation of this hygienic problem is being c arried out by a responsible agency of the U niversity of Cincinnati. I re a liz e how e a s y it is to fo rg et th is and to c o n trib u te to the id ea th a t Ethyl* s M edical D epartm ent and the K ettering L aboratory a re one and the sam e. H ow ever, this is not tru e in fact o r in p rin cip le, and it would be injurious to E thyl's in te re s ts if its own people w ere to confuse th is situation in th e ir own m inds and especially in the m inds of th e ir custom ers o r the public. 2 . The Surgeon G eneral of the Public H ealth Service is not'the U. S. Surgeon G eneral. M He is one of four m en of that title in the U. S. Govern* rnent S ervices {Army,"Navy, A ir F o rc e and Public H ealth S ervice). I have c o rre cte d this point of the le tte r. , 3. The other suggestions a re intended to rein fo rce what has been said in 1. above, o r to em phasize the fact that the decision in the m atter of the in crease in the lead content of m otor gasoline will not come easily . The decision to request a form al, official consideration of the increase will be, if it is m ade, a m ajo r policy decision on the p a rt of Ethyl C orporation, and the decision to grant the request, if m ade by the Public H ealth Service will be a m ajor policy decision on th eir p a rt. It will not be m ade lightly, and X cannot conceive of its being m ade by the Service without establishing a rec o rd that could be counted on to dem onstrate that it had acted in good faith on incontestable fa c ts. Such a decision could hot be covered up, and on its publication in Public H ealth Reports,* as it would be, the Service would be ' ' 000489.4 v-> ' ` ' : ' ' . " : V'- V " '; ' ' I'" '' -iv -'-i.- v v ;-'' \ ' ' *^ ^ g ^ ^ - ^ y i k i l * ' r-' - ;....-..v...^....-.... ..v, . .' 4&&M4 W ;? ' E-Cf . r ; -V^ Ss*/ * F leck * (2)V A prU 25. ISS Sy,, , *"vA* . ' - v ~v- -: fi i(i.j ' criticised by certain persons and groups , - th at th is is a m a tte r o f public policy which /will be considered bn its m e rits (not its tech n o lo g ic b u t its h y g ien ic m e r its ) b y th e U n ite d ;S ta te s P u b lic : H e alth S e rv ic e . It w ould b e m o s t u n fo rtu n ate if th e im p r e s s io n 'w er e^tp,bb. conveyed, in te n tio n a lly o r o th e rw is e , th a t the S e rv ic e m ig h t b e''ex p ected .to acjfu ie sc e fa irly read ily to a .request of.th is type m ade by i p d n s t r y ^ i ^ ^ J ^ i . - i ^ ' _ Sincerely yours. '. x ` \.}'v : V -rV-;*^ : -.A ; '';.r':'V'.; j''' (: Y E A K ef -*. . . *' . . \ fi Vv ' t*-t* * >f >\V$>-3**; >! / * -V .tys# R o b e rt A ,. K ehoe, hi* 0 . . . v..`-t : t [z:yyM&:: k . nfe:' Enc. y 7 - > '/ V. '; ; i y "4|;S -I