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r.-ons.'iivi'' I i 1O1 o u t I J. S. Metcalf, St. Louis R2NK. e v i i ; February 27, 1979 S U B JE C T ; I'C ttC N C C OCP Crude Sturgeon Spill T O : File c r . K. W. Easley D. B. Edwards J. R. Foehr T. L. Gossage R. C. Isham D. E. Munie D. P . Roman P. A. Tierney J. D. Wilson 1920 B2NA B2SA B3SB BIND B3SR N2B N3A N3A On February 27, 1979, I received a phone call from a Ms. Jo Ann Pervak, A. D. Little. Charles Poole, of EPA-OTS, had given her my name. ADL has an EPA contract with the Monitoring and Data Support Department (?) to evaluate the environmental impact of 2,3,7,8 TCDD. Since this compound was allegedly present in the OCF Crude spilled at Sturgeon, she wanted to know how it was used. I told her the vast majority was used as an intermediate in the preparation of penLachlorophenol. I did not divulge names of customers, but mentioned that there were few producers of penta. I explained to her our .concern over the unfortunate EPA press release, the fact that none of the three scientists involved in the University of Illinois claimed the 2,3,7,8 isomer had been proven present, the general chemical facts behind our belief that this isomer, if present at all, could not be the predominant tetracnloro isomer present, and finally our hope that A. D. Little would not add to the confusion already existing over the dioxins in OCP Crude.