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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 2010 Aug 3
DOC TALC494
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Declaration of M. Baumgardner of M Archive CRMC
DECLARATION OF MARGARET J. BAUMGARDNER
I Margaret J. Baumgardner declare
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I am not a party to this action I have personal knowledge of the facts set
forth in this declaration and if called as a witness I could and would competently testify
as to the truth of the matters set forth herein
2. I am the Research Coordinator for the Claims Resolution Management
Corporation CRMC a wholly owned subsidiary of the Manville Personal Injury
Settlement Trust Trust The CRMC was createdin December 1998 andis staffed by former Trust employees On January 1 1999 CRMC began providing claims resolution
facility services to the Trust
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In this position I manage the Asbestos Claims Research Facility
Facility a document and records repository located at 3390 Peoria Street Suite 304
Aurora Colorado The Facility contains the business records including but not limited to
correspondence memoranda reports records and data compilations record of
Manville Corporation or related entities Manville generally as well as Manville
records relevant to litigation of asbestos liability The Trust has managed and operated
Facility which the
from November 28 1988 the date on
was consummated
the Manville bankruptcy plan
4.
My experience and familiarity with the documents at the Facility began in
1983 while working for Manville In my work as a paralegal for Manville I assisted in
locating indexing and packing many of the records which became the foundation
documents for the Facility I continued to work for Manville until September 1987 From March 1988 to September 1988 I was hired to supervise and assist in the indexing
of the first 20,000 boxes which were turned over to the Trust in November 1988. From
September 1988 to January 1989 I assistedin the privilege review of documents to be
given to the Trust From November 1988 to April 1994 I worked for Freeborn & Peters
and was put in charge of the Facility managing all productions and new acquisitions In September 1995 I was hired by the Trust to manage the Facility In December 1998 I
was hired by the CRMC to manage the Facility for the Trust Accordingly I am
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personally familiar with many of the records stored at the Facility as well as how the records have been gathered
5.
To the best of my knowledge information and belief I certify that these
records were made at or near the time by or from information transmitted by a person
with knowledge were kept in the course of the regularly conducted business activity of
Manville and it was the regular practice and the business activity of Manville to make
the records
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Attached is a document found among the files and microfilm at the
Facility and are bates labeled 000001 through CRMC
000400 and these documents are true and correct copies of documents found at the
Facility -
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California California and the State of Colorado that the foregoing is true and correct
Executed on August 3rd 2010 in Aurora Colorado
M.J. Margaret J. Baumgardner
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 3rd day of August 2010
Notary Public
Declaration of Margaret J. Baumgardner
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