B. J. Pigg (Asbestos Information Association) to Member Companies Including Union Carbide on DOT Final Rule on Transportation of Asbestos (1978)

A one-page Asbestos Information Association memorandum to member company representatives, including Rhodes of Union Carbide, reporting that DOT issued a final rule on asbestos transportation on December 4, 1978, effective April 30, 1979. It is followed by the enclosed Federal Register notice (Docket HM-160), which requires commercial asbestos fiber to be shipped in rigid, airtight or dust- and sift-proof packaging and classifies asbestos as ORM-C.

What the document holds

• Page 1: AIA memorandum from B.J. Pigg, 6 December 1978, to member companies on the DOT final rule on transportation of asbestos
• Pages 2-4: Federal Register, Dec. 4, 1978, vol. 43, no. 233, pp. 56664-56666: DOT Materials Transportation Bureau final rule summary, responses to comments, ORM-C classification, economic impact
• Page 5: Federal Register hazardous materials table amendment for asbestos (largely garbled in OCR; the page is printed rotated)
• Page 6: Federal Register p. 56668: text of new 49 CFR 173.1090 and sections 174.840, 175.640, 176.906 and 177.844, signed by L. D. Santman, November 27, 1978

People and organizations

From B.J. Pigg (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association/North America) to Rhodes (Union Carbide Corp.); Poutiatine (Johns-Manville Corp.); Carson (Asbestos Corp. LTD.); Ciskowski (Jim Walter Research Corp.).

• B. J. Pigg (author)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
• AIA Executive Committee (named)
• AIA/NA Standards Advisory Committee (named)
• ASARCO (named)
• Asbestos Corporation Limited (named)
• Calaveras Asbestos Ltd (named)
• Cassiar Asbestos Corp (named)
• Connell Bros. LTD (named)
• Continental Products Corp (named)
• DOT (named)
• Huxley Development Corp. (named)
• Jim Walter Research Corp (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• Materials Transportation Bureau (named)
• QAMA (named)
• Special Asbestos Company (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)
• Vermont Asbestos Group (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Huxley Development Corporation · Johns-Manville.

About this copy

This is document UC-2970 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 6 pages. Production numbers UCC 016436 to UCC 016441.