H. B. Rhodes Memo Circulating Draft Report on Outdoor Airborne Asbestos Concentrations at the Calidria Mine and Mill, with Related 1980 Papers (1980)

Compilation of June-July 1980 Metals Division papers on airborne asbestos at the Calidria mine and mill near King City, California. It opens with H.B. Rhodes's June 4, 1980 memo circulating a report prepared for Science Applications, Inc. (an EPA contractor), a draft cover letter to Dr. Ziskand, and draft (June 3) and revised (June 12) versions of the report with fence-line and mine-area fiber data from 1963 to 1980. It ends with a July 29, 1980 memo on delivering dust count reports to customers and a July 1980 technical service report on fiber identification versus sampling time.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Internal correspondence, H.B. Rhodes to distribution, June 4, 1980, circulating the attached report for comment before release
• Page 2: Draft cover letter, H.B. Rhodes to Dr. Richard A. Ziskand, Science Applications, Inc., June 4, 1980
• Pages 3-17: Draft report dated June 3, 1980, 'Outdoor Airborne Asbestos Concentrations at the Union Carbide Asbestos Mining and Milling Operations in California' (text, Figures 1-3, Table I, Table II with sketches)
• Pages 18-32: Revised version of the same report dated June 12, 1980 (text, Figures 1-3, Table I, Table II with sketches)
• Page 33: Internal correspondence dated July 29, 1980 (initials JLM), 'Dust Count Reports': procedure for delivering customer dust count reports
• Pages 34-35: Technical Service Report, F. L. Smith, July 18, 1980 (revised 7/30/80), 'Fiber Identification as a Function of Sampling Time', with summary table of air monitorings

People and organizations

From H.B. Rhodes (Technology Manager); F. L. Smith (Author of the Technical Service Report (pp. 34-35)) to G.R. Adams and eleven others on the Metals Division distribution list (W.B. DeAtley, R.L. Folkman, J.L. Myers, J.J. Sibley and others); Dr. Richard A. Ziskand (Science Applications, Incorporated, Los Angeles); R. E. Byrne, Jr..

• Harrison B. Rhodes (author)
• F. L. Smith, Jr. (author)
• Robert E. Byrne, Jr. (recipient)
• Richard A. Ziskand (recipient)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• EPA (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• Science Applications, Incorporated (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · EPA · NIOSH · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-1440 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 35 pages. Production numbers A09641 to A09672.