Compilation on Shower Requirements for Asbestos Removal at the Texas City Plant, with Yalcinkaya Note to W. H. Barlow (1979)

Five-page exhibit from Union Carbide's Texas City plant. It holds a March 3, 1979 handwritten note on OSHA shower and change-room requirements for asbestos workers, a February 12, 1979 memo asking whether asbestos removal procedures must change to provide showers, a January 29, 1979 memo on delegation of EPA NSPS/NESHAPS regulation to the Texas Air Control Board, and the attached EPA notice.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Handwritten 'Avoid Oral Instruction' note, March 3, 1979, from Pere Yalcinkaya to W. H. Barlow on whether OSHA requires showers for asbestos workers
• Page 2: Memo, February 12, 1979, W. H. Barlow to J. B. Leverton, 'Asbestos Removal', asking whether procedures must change to provide showers
• Pages 3-4: Internal correspondence, January 29, 1979, J. F. Erdmann to W. H. Barlow and others, on delegation of EPA NSPS/NESHAPS responsibilities to the Texas Air Control Board, including asbestos
• Page 5: EPA Region 6 notification of delegation of NSPS/NESHAPS to the Texas Air Control Board (January 1979)

People and organizations

From Pere Yalcinkaya; W. H. Barlow; J. F. Erdmann (Health and Environmental Affairs Department (per text of memo)) to W. H. Barlow; J. B. Leverton.

• W. H. Barlow (author, recipient)
• J. F. Erdmann (author)
• Peri Yalcinkaya (author)
• J. B. Leverton (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Bechtel (named)
• EPA (named)
• Health and Environmental Affairs Department (named)
• Texas Air Control Board (named)
• Texas Employers' Insurance Company (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: EPA · NESHAP · Texas Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-1129 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 5 pages. Production numbers UCTC 17260 to UCTC 17264.