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HILL and KNOWLTON, Inc. Stunting SuUstitt ' EHILADELRHIA, Rfi, 0. 634,371 OCT 2 1974, Plastic Sues Curbs I V ' .fil | f Chicago -- <AP) -- Plas- an economic impact study . ; *r" Y i -- By- Jan. 1," 1976, anyi l tics industry officials today ; made earlier this year by worker exposed to more than! ( denounced and filed lawsuits , ( Arthur Little & Co.," an in-1 the limits must have a res-; contesting new federal safety' dustrial consulting firm. . pirator. Until then, respira-1 standards reducing worker ex posure to vinyl chloride, a gas jT that may cause cancer. At least two Industrial groups, filed court actions. The Society of the Plastics tors are optional if levels re-' main less than 5 parts perj million. ' ; Assistant U. S. Labor Sec- Industry Inc. which repre -- Penalties for violators in-; ; retary John H. Stender an- . sents more than 90 percent of chide a maximum $10,000 fine ! nounced the new Occupation / vinyl cloride and ' polyvinyl and six months in prison. r ' al Safety and Health Admin- chloride producers, and the : ; istration- (OSHA) standards, Hool^jr Chemical Co., of Stam- i for vinyl chloride, a chemical Lford, Conn., filed suit against ' used in numerous plastic pro- the standards. i ducts, which would cover 7,500 After several deaths from a j U. S. plants with; 350,000 work- rare liver cancer which were ers. thought to be related to the Stender said a company that handling of vinyl chloride, the ! cannot meet the standards Government in April lowered t could ask for a variance or a . the limit of 500 parts'per mil- f time extension. ' lion to which workers could i Todd C. Walker, of the Fire- be exposed, to 50 parts. ; stone Plastics Co., a division \ of the Fireston'e Tire & Rub ber Co., said in a statement the ruling "puts the vinyl . The new standards state: -- In 1975, the current al lowable level of 50 parts per million of vinyl chloride must i plastics Industry on a colli-r. drop to one part per million i sion course with economic over any eight-hour period or | disaster. More importantly, ' five parts averaged over any it throws two million jobs period no longer than 15 min ; down-the drain, according to utes. 23527130 *