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1 book the Federal Register June of 1986. Page 2151 2 A Yes. 3 Q Does the OSHA regulationscontain risk 4 assessments in this Table 6? 5 A Yes, yes. What theydid was come up with 6 their best estimate of risk for their different 7 diseases, and this is their final risk table for at 8 least cancers associated with asbestos. 9 What they did was they said well, given some 10 exposure levels, .1, .2 to 10 and given that you are 11 exposed to that level on a daily basis, that is an 12 eight-hour day for the average concentration and you 13 work for one year, then they calculated how many -- 14 for every hundred thousand of people exposed, how many 15 excess deaths would be attributable to the asbestos 16 exposures, so these are deaths over and above what you 17 see in a normal population that would relate to the 18 fact that you are exposed to asbestos. 19 For example, if you have a 20-year exposure 20 to a level of .1 fibers per cc, for every 100,000 21 workers who began that work, you would expect to see