FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 31 DOC NMA153 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION WBAI Radio Transcript - Discussion About The Asbestos Danger in NYC RADIO TV REPORTS INC - I 41 EAST 42ND STREET NEW YORK NY 10017. 847-510O JOHN MANVILLE INC FOR PROGRAM SCIENTIST SPEAKOUT DATE MAY 31st 1970 2:30 PM STATION WBAI New York CITY DISSCUSICH DISSCUSICH DISSCUSICH DISSCUSI DISCUSICH CDISH CUSICH DISSCUSICH IDCUT IDCUT IDCUT THE THE ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBESTOS ASBES ASBT ESTOSOSASBESTOS DANGER DANGER DANGER wer SE NEW NEW NEW YORK YORK YORK CITY CITY CITY GLENN PAULSON If the city took a leading role portaps in this particular project as another one that I've been interested in for some time where the city also seems to be moving fastest and first and that's the question which is in the news right Dow of cutting down on the amount of asbest s added to the city's air by controlling the spraying of asbestos insulation on the World Trade Center and other buildings We're taking this program in the middle of the hearings on the new proposed regulations which I understand it is the first time that any city agency in the United States proposed such regulations I'd like to open for comments to anybody who'd ldko ldko ldko to to of view #bongo #bongo #bongo du du weer rn ee we te a & we et & Wk ee oer eo te ew eee Oe s y het om as a Zionist it is very significant that a step ee el Ee is being taken not after damage which has been shown to the community , clear cut damage although the medical history regular listeners to this program know in asbestos workers is really disastrous One out of two asbestos workers will die of lung cancer due to asbestos exposure in the Whited States OFFICE AN mw YOOK DETROIT LOS SNGE-ES * WABPENETON BD C * LA FRANCISCO * NEW NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO NGACAGO yw -2- But rather it's rally a preventive stop We do not know any clear cut way whether the several hundred tons of asbestos added to the city's air if there was no control would in the long run actually take my toll on health We do know enough to be of course concerned and cautious from the scientific paint of view but rather than wait until the evidence is in that the suffer steps are being community who breaths in the air might taken to not give them the chance to become human guinea pigs This type of preventive approach to a problem is the sort that must happen on all environmental issues of course and is unfortunately all too rare and the more common condition is waiting miif* the day that it comes in Twenty years later like NOT Or forty years later like asbstos workers I wander if anybody here has any other specific pet problems that they know of they'd like to see a similar approach adopted in the city - dealing with a city FRED KENT I think maybe we problem problem comment a little bit on the asbestos Isther than running away from it The bearings were goiny on in fact today we did have a member of the E.A.C.

Since waste oils are renaimad, Turney said, thispractlce merely leads to recycling the PCBs.

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Let me lead off by correcting a few glaring errors in the telex you received rom Lepkowski.

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Lassiter expressed a guarded judgment that the mouse data reported by IBT would not lead OSHA to modify the emergency temporary standard, but that it might well cause OSHA to accelerate the rule-making process for the development of a permanent standard

A trabecular arrangement results from loosening of the lobular plate arrangement by dilatation of sinusoids, leading to primary peliosis.

The new organization has retained the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton as counsel, with Don Morgan, Bob Barnard, Chuck lettow and Eric Schwartz assuming lead roles, together with support from various associates.

There has been minimal lead exposure in the past but no cadmium or mercury exposure.

Because the rate of elimination of dust from the lungs is unknown and cannot be estimated from the data, this approach leads to a wide range of possible interpretations of the data; for example, the concentration such that possible asbestosis occurs in no more than 1 percent of men after 40 years of exposure could be as high as 1-1 fibres/cm^ or may have to be as low as 0.3 fibres/cm3.

Louis What the doctors learned was Doctors have long known andexposure to dust and oth- Participating doctors sit at how to classify the extent of that inhalation of various dusts er environmental agents is a table facing a box damage that coal workers can such as coal quartz asbestos helpful in establishing the spe ing the chest rays of patients dis- get from inhaling coal dust so talc and gaphite can lead to a cific diagnosis with black lung or other ill victims can qualify for Fed- group of lung diseases that are Because of these technical eases that mimic it Course compensation Under the categorized as pneumoconioses difficulties the service studied directors use a new technique East- eral Federal Coal Mine Health and When black coal dust is in- ways to standardize such chest which was developed by Safety Act that President Nixon signed a year ago each coal worker can have a chest ray taken every two or three years at the expense of the mine op- erator If radiologists find evidence of sufficient black lung damage in the coal worker's chest X- Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproductionreproduction prohibited without permission

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The following substances were mentioned in the course of discussion: coke, fiber glass, DDT, type metal, carbon black, chromate, lead, uranium, asbestos, materials used in plastic making, talc, benzo-a-pyrene and fertilizers.

The only exception to this was the lead filled product (543 Uhlt R-i which we no longer plan to make.

Weller _ (lead), , EPA Well ID#: F L S 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 Year-Month-Day: 2 0 2 3 - 0 3 - 3 0 EPA Permit # (or RA): N O N E Page 1 Of 2 Carol Chen Start Time: 9:40 am End Time: 9:46 am Facility Name: Maverick Natural Resources, LLC (Breitburn Operating LP) Street Address: 5415 Oil Plant Rd City: Jay County: Santa Rosa State: FL Zip: 32565 Nature of Business: oil and gas production Facility Owner/Operator: Maverick Natural Resources, LLC Phone: 850-675-1702 Email: Facility Contact (if different): Al Jones, Plant Superintendent O/O Mailing Address: 5415 Oil Plant Rd City: Jay County: Santa Rosa Phone: 251-227-3319 State: FL Zip: 32565 Well Name & #: B.