Comments of Johns-Manville Corporation With Respect to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Occupational Exposure to Asbestos (1976)

Johns-Manville's April 9, 1976 comments to OSHA (Docket H-033) on the October 9, 1975 proposal to cut the asbestos exposure limit to 0.5 fiber per cubic centimeter, sent from its Health, Safety and Environment Department in Denver. J-M, describing itself as the largest asbestos fiber producer in the Western world, argued that the 2 fibers/cc standard due July 1, 1976 was adequate, that the British Turner Brothers data and other references OSHA cited were misread or not new, that fiber counting was unreliable below 2 fibers/cc, and that 0.5 was not technologically or economically feasible. This copy holds the 34-page cover letter only; Exhibits A-G it refers to are not included.