N. J. Hearn to W. C. Thurber on California Asbestos Spraying Law Amendments, with Related Thurber, Zupa and Rhodes Letters and Draft Exemption Letter (1975)

A set of Union Carbide papers from December 1974 to February 1975 about proposed amendments to California's 1974 law banning sprayed asbestos. In the top letter, N. J. Hearn told W. C. Thurber about meeting Bob Monagan of the California Manufacturers Association on sponsoring the amendments. The rest of the set holds Thurber's, Zupa's and Rhodes's cover letters, a January 8, 1975 draft letter requesting additional exemptions, airborne fiber sampling tables for sprayed coatings, and a Federal Register excerpt.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Letter, N. J. Hearn to W. C. Thurber, Feb. 10, 1975, on meeting with the California Manufacturers Association about amendments to the asbestos legislation
• Page 2: Letter, W. C. Thurber to Norman J. Hearn, Jan. 14, 1975, enclosing draft letter and proposed exemptions, with a postscript
• Pages 3-5: Draft letter dated Jan. 8, 1975 on California Senate Bill 2419 proposing four additional exemptions for sprayed asbestos coatings
• Pages 6-14: Tables I-IV of airborne asbestos fiber sampling data for sprayed water-based, latex, resin-based and asphaltic systems, with binder summaries
• Page 15: Federal Register excerpt (April 6, 1973, pp. 8821-8822) on the EPA spray-on asbestos standard, labeled Exhibit 1
• Page 16: Law Department transmittal, Victor J. Zupa to W. C. Thurber, Jan. 14, 1975, enclosing the proposed change to the California Health & Safety Code
• Page 17: Letter, H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness, Dec. 5, 1974, sending spraying data to support proposed amendments to the Marks Bill
• Page 18: No text; apparently blank or an unnumbered page

People and organizations

From N. J. Hearn (Regional Vice President); W. C. Thurber (Mining & Metals); H. B. Rhodes (Area Manager, Marketing & Technology); Victor J. Zupa (Law Department) to W. C. Thurber (Mining & Metals, 38th Floor, New York); Norman J. Hearn (Union Carbide Corporation, San Francisco); R. H. Mereness (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association/NA).

• Norman J. Hearn (author, recipient)
• Harrison B. Rhodes (author)
• William C. Thurber (author, recipient)
• Robert H. Mereness (recipient)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Asbestos Information Association/North America (named)
• California Legislature (named)
• California Manufacturers Association (named)
• EPA (named)
• Flintkote (named)
• Johns-Manville (named)
• Law Department (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: EPA · Johns-Manville.

About this copy

This is document UC-4200 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 18 pages. Production numbers UCC 010015 to UCC 010031.