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MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION 1825 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, D C. 20009 (202) 483-6126 FFB4 7? January 30, 1974 To: TECHNICAL TASK GROUP ON VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH Subject: Agenda for the Meeting of February 20. 1974 Gentlemen: Distributed herewith is the agenda for the subject meeting. Members of the Research Coordinators are reminded that they are asked to meet in the committee officers' suite at 2:00 PM, on Tuesday, February 19, to develop the recom mendations of their group on the action items to be con sidered the following day. , \ Mr. Wheeler, leader of the sub-group on work prac tices established at the January 25 meeting of the Task Group, has called for members of his group to meet at 9:00 AM on Tuesday to consider the matters assigned to them by the Task Group. They too will meet in the suite. Respectfully yours. Kenneth D. Johnson, Ph.D. Secretary, Technical Task Group on Vinyl Chloride Research KDJ:mb Attachments - Agenda - Federal Register Notice of OSHA Hearing cc: D. P. Duffield, M.D. Mr. D. M. Elliott Dr. Tiziano Garlanda RSV 0000589 3874 Nonces <) Whsthw tbe available information pretidtng officer dtaQ certify the reooed warrants tbe imuaace of an Emergency thereof to tbe Aaffirtant Secretary of Temporary Standard, or the commence lobar for Occupational Safety and ment of a regular rulemaking under sec Health. Copied by MCA. tion 0(b) of tbe Occupational Safety and Health Act. Written data may be mailed or deliv Signed at Washington. D.C, this 28th day of January 1974. January 30, 1974 ered to the Office of Standards, Attn: Docket OSH-36. Occupational Safety Joma H. Utmim. AnUUmt Sacrttatu of Labor. and Health Administration. Room 303. (V* Dee. 74-60M Filed l--T*;B:4S am) 1736 M Street NW,, Washington, D.C. 30310. not later than February 28. 1974. The data will be available for public In spection and copying at tbe OSHA Public Reading Room. Room 203.1726 M 8treet NW., Washington. D.C. 20210. Oral presentation of data will also be received by an administrative law Judge at an informal fact-finding hearing be ginning at 10 e.d.L, on Friday, Feb ruary 15, 1974, Conference Room B, De- tmental Auditorium. Constitution Ave- partmentel Auditorium. Constitution Avenue NW.. between 12th and 14th Streets, Washington, D.C. Persons dealring to appear at the hear ing must file with J. Goodell. Attn: Dock et OSH-36. Office of Standards, Occupa tional Safety and Health Administration. Room 203,1726 M Street NW.. Washing ton. D.C. 20210, a written notice of in tention to appear, in triplicate. Notice should be filed as soon as possible, but will be accepted by the Management Offi cer at the hearing until the pre-hearing conference begins. The notice should state: The name and address of the person wishing to appear; the capacity in which he will appear; and the approx imate amount of time required for the presentation. The notice should also In clude. or be accompanied by. a brief statement of tbe presentation to be made. Beginning at 9:30'ajn., e.d.t., on Feb DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ruary 15. 1974. the presiding Adminis trative Law Judge will holds pre-hearing Office of the Secretary conference in order to establish the order and time for the presentations, and POSSIBLE HAZARDS OF VINYL CHLORIDE MANUFACTURE AND USE in order to settle any other matter relat ing to the prorfiertlrm Request for Information and Notice of Tbe oral iimuailtiigs shell be reported Fact-Finding ring verbatim. The useof prepared statements Nbtiee la bendy given that tbe Oc cupational Safety and Health Admin istration Is requesting Information on possible haaante --ocisfwi with the manufactuze and/or uae of vinyl chlo ride (chloroethene, Cbemicsd Abstracts Service Registry Number 75014). The Administration requests informa tion including, but not necessarily lim by witnesses Is encouraged. AH documents that are intended to be submitted should be submitted In tilpUcate (original and two copies). Tbe administrative law lodge shall have all the powers necessary or appro priate to conduct a fair and full Informal hesirlng. the powers; (a) To regulate the course of the hear ited to: (1) The toxicity of vinyl chloride: <2) The toxicity of other chemicals in volved in the manufacture and use of vinyl chloride; (3) The technologlee involved in the production and use of vinyl chloride; (4) Employee populations potentially or actually expoeed to vinyl chloride or other *>--and involved In the pro duction and/or use of vinyl chloride; ing: (b) To dlspoee of procedural requests, objections, and comparable matters: (c) To confine tbe presentations to matters pertinent to the requested In formation; <d) To regulate tbe conduct of those present at the hearing by appropriate means; (e> In his discretion, to question and permit questioning of any witness: and <5> Epidemiological studiesof effects of vinyl chloride and other chemicals used in the manufacture or use of vinyl <f) In his discretion, to keep tbe record open for a reasonable stated time to re ceive written data from any person who chloride on populations. employee or has participated in the oral proi efsllim otherwtie; and Following the dose of the the MOSUL eOTR VOL 36. MO. 31 .WBMCSOAY, JAMUA1Y 30, 1674 RSV 0000590 i Manufacturing Chemists Association TECHNICAL TASK GROUP ON VINYL CHLORIDE RESEARCH Agenda for Meeting Sheraton O'Hare (North) 9:00 AM Chicago* Illinois February 20* 1974 1. Minutes of the Meeting of January 25* 1974 2. Report on Animal Exposures Studies -- Industrial BIO-TEST Staff 3. Report on Epidemiological Studies -- Dr. Gaffey 4. Consideration of Dow Research Proposals 5. Consideration of Other Proposed Research Projects 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Mutagenicity Studies Three-generation Reproduction Studies Feeding Studies Prospective Epidemiology studies 6. Recommendations on Revision of SD-56 Chemical Safety Data Sheet for Vinyl Chloride 7. Discussion of Possible Reactivation and Expansion of Case Registry 8. Development of Plans for 11th International Cancer Congress 9. Future Meeting Schedule RSV 0000591