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. Sep ARARG_ TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP 426 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1800 CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202-3057 1493 RblO6oBt1EgR9iaT3fA5i.7a.wB9I8cL3oO8mTT May 21,2003 cu l2E03ESS uscu st ae uAne.en FDr.EDChEaRrlAeLs ME.XAPuReErSS ODisrceacrtoHre,mRainsdkeAzs.sessment Division COfhfeimcieocaflPrCeovnetnrotlioDni,viPsesitoincides and Toxic ~~ OSfufbiscteanocfePsrevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Mail Code 7405M Mail Code 7405M `Washington, DC 20460 Washingion, DC 20004 B TELECOPY Jennifer Seed John Wheeler, Ph.D. (E-29) ATSDR 2 on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 410 M Street, S.W. 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333 oooh = Gm Washington, DC 20460 gE 8 8 Christopher Jones, Esq. Director Donald . Welsh Regional Administrator Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 122 South Front Street U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region ITI Columbus, OH 43215 P1h6i5l0adAerlcphhiaS,trPeeAt 19103-2029 `Thomas V. Skinner Regional Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 77 West Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Re: Human Health Threat Arising From ReleasesOfPFOA/APFO/C-8 In `West Virginia And Ohio SONTAIN NO CB! I May 21, 2003 Page 2 Ladies and Gentlemen: DuPorts intemal assessment during 1981ofC-8 levels in the blood of ts female employees at This letter serves as a supplement to our previous letters on the referenced topic dated February 3, 2003 (AR-226-1216), Aeprrs,ilw4e, p2r0o0v3id(eAdR-i2nf2o6r-m1a3t0i7o)n ainndcoAnpnreiclti1o1,n w2i0t0h3 our concem (AR-226-1308). Though that there may be a threat those lett to the health ofthose living in `both Ohio and West Virginia whose Cdroiunnktiyn,g WweastterViisrgcionnitaa.miAntattaecdhewdittho C-8 our Afprroiml 4D,uP2o0n03t,'sltWtaesrhwienrgetodnocWuomreknstsPlraenltatiinngWtoood its Washington Works Plant in Wood County, `West Virginia, along with medical conditions of certain children born to those women. Attached to our February 3, 2003, letter was information 0re.l5aptipnmg.toADtutPaocnhte'dsherreefteoreincae cinop1y9o8f7atno ainntienmtaelrnDaluP"aocnctepmteambloerlaenvedlu"mofreCf-e8reinncihnugmtahne bloodof existenceofan even lower internal, DuPont "acceptable blood level for female employees" of 0.4 ppm from at least as far back as 1981. (See Exhibit A (EID096478-80)} Very truly yours, Soburt & Gitor # [rnd Robert A. Bilott RAB/mdm cEcn:closuRr.e Edison Hill, Esq. (w/ encls.) Larry A. Winter, Esq. (w/ encls.) Gerald J. Rapien, Esq. (w/ encls.) Mary Dominiak, (USEPA, OPPT) (for inclusion in AR-226) (w/ encls.) (by telecopy and Federal Express) v As a Defendant in a class action lawsuit pending against DuPont in the West Virginia State Court in which we serve as class counsel, and as a Defendant in a prior C-8 case in Federal CfaolulritngiunnWdeesrtthVeirtgeirnmisao, fDutPhoenPtrohtaescthiaved Otrhdeerrisghitnttohmosaerkcadsoesciufmtehnetsdopcruomdeucnetds qinuasluicfhy acsases as. "confidential." DuPont did not stamp the copyof the document attached hereto at Exhibit A as "confidential" under the terms ofthe Protective Orders in either case. 2