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The Directors concurred that future information .

TciSTITUTE LETTER TO EPAON ASBESTOS EXPOSURE OF BRAKE REPAIR HORKERS --

Pigg Asbestos Information Association 1745 Jefferson Davis HighwayCrystal Square 4, Suite 509 Arlington, Virginia, 22202 Dear Mr.

GOTLIEB ,\P AMBASSADOR OF CANADA ' NJ TO THE UNITED STATES '/ (/ TO THE ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION/NORTH AMERICA OLD TOWN HOLIDAY INN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1983 Please check against delivery.

Appeals Court Stays OSHA's Asbestos ETS The Asbestos Information Association's request for a stay of OSHA's emergency tempo rary standard on asbestos exposure has been granted by the U.S.

XII, NO. 12 - NOVEMBER 1983 OSHA Considering Emergency Asbestos Standard While more than a dozen petitions from labor groups seeking an emergency temporary standard on asbestos remain unanswered, OSHA chief Thome Auchter told the Asbestos Information Association's Eighth Industry-Government Conference in September that evidence of asbestos' cancer-causing potential is "overwhelming and unequivocal."

For smokers and non-smokers alike, the relative risk associated with asbestos is roughly the same, between 4.4 and 4.9.

CONTACT WITH EPA AND CONTRACTORS ON THE ASBESTOS QUESTIONS The Secretary advised that he had received several phone calls from GCA Corporation, a contractor for EPA on the asbestos products questions.

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ASBESTOS COMPENSATION COALITION The Board of Directors discussed the presentation made by the Asbestos Compensation Coalition.

Also enclosed are an "Assistance Alert" (which the EPA has issued to note frequent errors made by early filers), and a summary of the reporting requirements issued by the Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA).

Whether the changes in the definitions of "asbestos" and "asbestos fiber" would clarify the standard's intended scope, and properly relate to known or suspected workplace hazards; whether specifying the mineralogic ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway.

Pigg, President Asbestos Information Association of North America 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 509 Crystal Square 4 Arlington, Virginia 22202 OFFICE OF PESTICIDES AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES ' .