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I-Zoo- I'lo - (f 00 CHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION Vinyl Chloride Panel Health Committee Record of Conference Call DATE: TIME: August 2, 1994 10:00 a.m. List of Participants: Jim Barter Ron Gilbert l/flftik Gruenwald cAJim Knaak V Patrick Logue v^Dave Penney ^Jonathan Ram low PPG Industries Westlake Polymers Borden Chemicals and Plastics Occidental Chemical Corporation Georgia Gulf Corporation Vista Chemical Company The Dow Chemical Company i/Bob Ondocs in ^Kim Reed Has Shah . CMA CMA CMA 1.0The June 1{37 1994 Record of Meeting was approved with one change. The spelling of Dr. Swenberg's name should read "Swenberg" not "Swinberg". 2.0 The Panel has verbally committed to update the epidemiology study. Dow Chemical, Georgia Gulf, and Borden should send their commitment forms to CMA as soon as possible. Ron Gilbert reported that Westlake has decided to join the Panel to support the epidemiology study update and other activities. Dr. Shah will tailor a commitment form for Westlake and send it to Mr. Gilbert as soon as possible. Westlake's share will be based on its nameplate capacity. 3.0 Dr. Shah reported that the requests for proposal to update the epidemiology study went out on August 1, 1994 to Roy Shore of New York University Medical Center, Ken Mundt of University of Massachusetts, Howard Rockette of University of Pittsburgh, and Otto Wong of Applied Health Sciences, Inc. The deadline for receipt of proposals from the potential contractors is September 2, 1994. Once the proposals are received, Dr. Shah will send them to the Panel for review. 4.0 Dr. Swenberg will attend the next Panel meeting to present his research program on evaluating the effects of short-term/high level exposure to vinyl chloride. This research may be helpful to Panel members when developing plans for handling catastrophic emergencies (i.e. highway closures, etc) and in evaluating the effects of intermittent exposures. R&S 144727