Contact the Unit nearest you: Headquarters Office Berkeley Office Los Angeles Office 744 P Street Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 322-2337 2151 Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 843-7900, Ext. 434 Post Office Box 30327 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90030 (213) 620-2380 The State Department of Health and the State Department of Industrial Relations provide this information to employers now to alert them to their major legal responsibilities under the Occupational Carcinogens Control Act and to give max imum lead time for planning to achieve health and safety standards mandated by the law.

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Washington, D.C. 20036 (Telephone: AC 202/872-1080) They will be happy to update you on the current status of the study and give you more information about the organization and its program to keep medical information on individuals -confidential. 25'2-5'7 3360002 2- jhe following information will be helpful to them: 1) Identification of your manufacturing plants using PVC, by general processing method, plus the approximate number of workers now so engaged and the year such operation started, together with a list of employees formerly so engaged for at least ten years, who are known to have died. 2) Identification of your life insurance carrier (Group Plan) and letter to them requesting release of death certificate information of these past employees, including retirees, to ORC for the purpose .of this study. 3) Since most life insurance carriers destroy their death certificate files after five to six years, ORC asks that each company search their own files for copies of death certificates or other leads that could assist in determining the cause of death - e.g. hospital of confinement, family doctor, etc.

Vemon E, Rose, has had lead responsibility in developing this recommended standard.

As the world's leading manufacturer of granular activated carbon, we are most Interested In being some assistance to you.

Historic Occupational Health Bulletins are Available Selected bulletins dealing with occupational health and hygiene published by Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor statistics between 1910 and 1930 are now available from National Technical Information Service (NTIS1 ... out of print for many years, containvaluable info for occupational health researchers ... deal with such subjects as lead poisoning, organic chemicals and solvents, inorganic dusts, carbon-monoxide poisoning. # ## GENC 010980

ETA has expressed concern that the fuel oil that would be produced by re-refining waste oil may contain potentially hazardous materials such as lead, iron, zinc, barium, and phosphorus.

Marketing concern is that since there are substitutes available in the marketplace, if we find any "dioxins" in SANTOPHEN, it would also "eventually" lead to discontinuance in the market.

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The undersigned pointed out that in a study done by University of California at Berkeley, at the request of and supported by Pittsburgh Corning comparing Unibestos and 4 leading asbestos-containing thermal pipe insulation materials indicated that none of these products would be used in the construction industry without exceeding the 12 fibers/ML TLV and that this study intensified the research effort in Pittsburgh Corning to find an asbestos substitute.

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/cm3 or may have to be as low as 0.3 fibresfcm3.

Our lead and asbestos respirator studies which were submitted to the docket and are referenced in your draft1, support an assigned protection factor of tan for half mask negative pressure respirators for which a qualitative fit test has been performed.

Papers are already in preparation on subjects such as: Massive Dose And Its Effect On Metabolism Potency And Latency Period Tumorogenidty And Carcinogenicity Extrapolation Of Animal Data To Man Risk Analysis Zero Risk--Impossibility Of No Exposure Leading independent scientists from across the country and around the world were invited to present their views on the proposed OSHA standard as well.

MCA feels this could lead to EPA regulation of the / manufacturing process. 3.