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PRESIDENT Jean P. Teas The Flood Company Barlow Rd. Hudson, Ohio 41236 216/633-2111 March 6. 1972 HUGEST To: FEDERATION AND CONSTITUENT SOCIETY KIT PERSONNEL From: FEDERATION PRESIDENT, JEAN P. TEAS Ra: LEAD CONTENT OF COATINGS Tou all must ba familiar by this time with tha law which now lixi.cs cha content of rasldancial coatings co 1.0Z, as wall as with Cha Food sad Drug Administration proposal to roducs this limitation to 0.31. Tou may not, how ever, be aware of just hew strong an effort is being made to virtually elimi nate all load compounds as ingredients la chase paints. While these regulations are legal requirements only for paints used whore Government funding is involved, thay will affect practically all paints of theae types due co the widespread uao of PHA financing. Tha purpose of this special lector is to make aura chat you appraeiata just how critical the situation is ad how important it is chat we all take iMediate action co prevent the passage of calamitous regulations. t.pi. Status of efforts to restrict lead content to GrdE of dried residential coaeinea -- Tha Senate Labor end Public Welfare tubcommittee on Health will hold public hearings in Washington, D.C. on March 6 and 7 on a proposed law to this effect. -- The FDA is wider increasing pressure to classify residential coatings containing more cnan this level of lead aa Haiardoua Subetancee. -- The Chicago City Council baa paaeed aa erdlaance banning the *ala or uee of interior residential costings containing more than tfrblPlsad and requiring special precautionary labeling of exterior houao paints aa well. , -- Councilman in other municipalities an racegnlting ths popular appeal of ths "lead-in-paint" issue and an considering similar ordinancas. -- Tha American Academy of Pediatrics la vigorously promoting tha limita tion of load in paint to virtual trace amounts. 'Ua i'S - 4,*|lC tif.v //, -i- Sona relevant facts -- There is no doubt that heavily leaded paints can be toxic to children who repeatedly ingest thee and the Federation supports practical efforts designed to keep these product* out of the teach or children. -- There is no direct evidence, however, that paints containing leas chan IS lead present this fore of hssard. (Tha proposed Uk lead was deduced from limited experimentation involving water-soluble lead Pcdtroltofl or ocimhmm ter Paint Tmcnnoioey in s o u t h bh o ad sretiT Ph il ad el ph ia pa w o t (**> se-isos 0007"SKP"036646 N21879 To Federation and Constituent Society Kay Faraonnal Page two confounds. Extrapolation to lead-in-palnt liultatioea did not *ufficlaatly taka into account the rate of extraction of load from couplax aixturea; e.g. dried paint between the tlae of lagaetion and allxlnatlon). -- Reduction of lead to even IE baa already serloualy United the uaa of lead-containing plgtaents in architectural coatinga. -- Further reduction to O.OtX would practically eliminate the uaa of laad drier* from oil baee houee palate and priaara, alkyd wall palnu aad eaaaala. Use of any lead plganea La reaidaatlal coating* would bo alluinated alao. Practical effecta of reetrictlone below IE -- Raatrlctiona to leas than IE laad would incroaae the coat of raaldantlal coatings by forcing the us* of ante axpoaalwe plgaanta and/cr drier*. -- In aany cases no adequate replacements for laad coapouads re cur rently on tr.a narket ao chat product quality would sufiai. -- Reformulation aad verification of quality of coatings can not be done overnight, so precipitous enforcaaanta of nore seringene regulations could slow down or scop productloo lines. The reworking or adsorption of existing finished goods, which couply with currant regulations, would alao posa a problaa unless a reasonable laad tlae wars provided. Racoouandsd action -- The National Paint i Coatings Association la actenptlug to rapraaont aggraaslvaly the paint industry before all involved legislative bodies and as part of this action ia urging lea uaubara ce aupply factual sup porting data. (Sat NPCA "luuadiets Action" letters dated Fab. 15 i 26, 1972). we hopa that all Aaaodaclon uaubara will cooperate fully la this effort. Copies of chase action raaa--ndatlcna ara available to non-aseeclatlon uambars if raquaacad frou NPCA Haadquattars, 1500 Rhode Island Avonua, K.W., Utahlagton, D.C. 20005 -- We all can. and should, protest vigorously any excessively restrictive or precipitous regulations by contacting iauodiataly our representa tives in Washington, calling to tnslr attention the "relevant facta" aad "practical affeeta of restrictions" cited above. 1. Rush your views to the uaubara of the Sonata Subeonulctea on Health, which la right now considering the proposed Bill S30B0. (A list of uaubara is attached berate). 2. Writs or calaphono your own Senator who nay be voting on the proposal lu the near future. 3. Keep alert for aluilar legislative proposals at the municipal level and iaundiacnly notify Faderation hind quarters (Bob Maclack or Frank Borralla, Tel. 215-545-1506), if you learn of any such local activity. 0007-SWP-036647 0007-SWP-000117964 To Mention and Constituent Society Key Personnel Page three Pleue give chi* neeter ae wide n distribution in your local nit as yMflhle, urging all Federation Hankers, the Constituent Societies and corporations to Join In chlo concerted canpalgn for sane and sensible ngulatlons. Slncarely, JPT/dg J.. TIAS President 0007-SWP-036648 0007-SWP-000117965 Senate Labor i Public Wilfiw Co Iiim Sanocrata Raiubllcane HARRISON A. WILLIAMS. JR. Jannlnga Randolph CLAIBORNE PELL COWARD K. KENNEDY CATLORD NELSON Walter F. Mondala THOMAS F. EAGLETON ALAN CRANSTON HAROLD E. HUMES Adlal E. Stevaneon 111 N.J. W. Va. R.l. Maaa. Wlae. Minn. Ha. Calif. Iowa 111. A7AA 6A72 *6*2 *543 5323 3641 3721 3553 374* 2RS* JACOB K. JAV1TS Hobart T, Stafford FURR B. DomncK RICHARD S. SORiEIKXR BOB PACHDOD ROHERT TAPT, JR. J. GUNN IEALL, JR. N.Y. Vt. Colo. Pa. Ora. Ohio Md. 65*2 51*1 5B52 425* 52*4 2315 *52* Note: Manbera of tha Subcommittee on Baalth ara eapltallaad. Committee nenbera, who have jolMd in epeoeorlnR t. 30H. are identified by aaterlak. Additional apcneora of S. JO10 ara llatad below. Birch Bayh Prod R. Karrla Philip a . Hart Hubert H. Humphrey Daniel K. Inouya Warran G. Hapnuaon Gala W. McGaa Caar|a McGovern Edmund S. Muakie John 0. Faatora Abraham A. Rlblcoff John V. Tunnay Frank E. Moae lad. Okie. Mich. Minn. Hawaii Waah. wyo. S. Dak. Maine R.l. Conn. Calif. Utah 5623 *721 *822 32** 363* 2621 64*1 2321 534* 2921 2823 38*1 5251 feiMssi Edward V. Brooke Clifford P. Caae Charlaa H. Percy Hugh Scott Maaa. H.J. III. Pa. 27*2 322* 2152 632* Soto: For talaphona ealla, u araa coda (202) and prefix (225), followed by Uatad extanelon. Latear* ehould ba addraaaad to Ianater . 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