CCMIbOLS Follo;vin.i is a sunnary of developments leading no our current program to control VCM emissions to comply with che proposed EPA regulation: (1) The T?

Source - "Leading Cause of Death in Selected /'r ear. of t he World" 1972 Report, Senate Coimittee on Labor and Public Welfare. g.

For about $12,000 as a minor user we could buy in and gain a few months lead time.

On the'other hand, many of the leading cases on this subject deal with manufacturers of machines and other items which reach the user in exactly the same form as they left the manufacturer's plant.

. * VAB.0001042954 .r'exsonne- ,,1 v.on:. coring rrogran April#24, 1974 Page 4 Schedule: (Con't) 4 i Thursday Iw mm Morning - Area 6 I a*' C V-12 Recovery Operator Afternoon - Area 6 **'m D v 12 Utility E V 12 Maintenance (General or Instrument) F V-12 Charge Operator Friday Morning - Area 7 A V-ll Utility, B V-il Recovery 6 V4i Charge **-*- * i- ^* Afternoon - Area 7 D D- 300/400 Lead 300/400 A Operator F F V- f>f)Cv ` D-300/400 V- n - ; Maintenance (Include Vinyl Shop) A k \ l Ml t. ' i jLI .

He stated the objective of the task force should be to de velop and collate data that would lead to presentacin before the Miscellaneous External Panel, in. order to attempt to have talc placed in Category I.

II r--mdh, began about a months ago whn mMWWarm dentally mixed U in animal (tad supplement DM*, "* ftTUoortddaet It* Prat for dying fBB ia contagious Tha atrtat nwer referred `fw Pmbbbtythd PBB. aflreratardantchemical uiad in plastics, might be The critique npldna thd soma ''daui'' cttUc hava gotten PBB in thdr bodiaa whan plaead with contaminated hatha baeauaa tha barna haven't been cleaned properly or bad lead continues to be prevent.

Exposure to ashe-tos may lead to further complication. c e.. heart milmc. cancer of the lung, or. rarely. !

Repair and extend the lead-sheet covered area on this bench to accommodate the maximum number of batteries that might be on "charge'* at any one time. 4.

In November and December of 1976, I called attention to inappro priate leading procedures in existence at your facility and sent check sheets for clarification and or usage to ascertain adequate loading procedures.

We hope these will lead to larger studies with funding from other sources within the next year.

We have accumulating evidence that mercury, lead, and the health dangers, both immediate and long term, of many cadmium in the environment can attack the central nervous of the substances we produce, use, and often release into system.

A few of these are the walls around the fans, gas lines on the boiler fronts have been lead coated and insulated, the leak on the block valve for Boiler //4 was repaired, silencers have been installed on various vents in the plant, and a concrete wall was constructed around the //I Auxiliary Control Room.

The incident does serve to remind us again how alett everyone must be to avoid the combina tion of events which lead to any accident, large or small.

One experiment, for example, established that a pcb with 62 percent chlorine was almost twice as effective as ddt in breaking down the sex hormone estradiol in birds; this is regarded as the initial step in the mechanism by which egg shells of pred atory birds (which have very high tissue concentrations of both chlorinated pesti cides and pcb's) are thinned, leading to high chick mortality and eventual ex tinction.