S. W. McCallie on a Confidential Copy of the EPA's Nashua Case Development Plan (1981)

A one-page confidential memo of July 14, 1981, from S. W. McCallie to J. F. Reis, W. B. Reitze, J. A. Dukes at Nashua and attorney E. W. Warren, copied to G. R. Freund, sending a copy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Case Development Plan" for Nashua, New Hampshire. McCallie wrote that J-M had received it "through a source which has requested that we keep our source confidential," limited distribution, asked that no further copies be made without his knowledge, and asked that they minimize "any public discussion of the fact that we have a copy of this plan."

What it shows

The plan concerned the EPA's case over asbestos waste from J-M's Nashua plant, on which J-M was already preparing public answers (Reis to McCallie on Nashua waste disposal).

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

Memorandum to J.F. Reis, W.B. Reitze, J.A. Dukes, E.W. Warren, Esq.; from S.W. McCallie, 7/14/81; Re: Nashua, N.H. - EPA Case Development Plan. McCallie transmits a copy of the EPA Case Development Plan and states that he received the copy through a source which has requested that Manville keep the source confidential. McCallie further states that he is limiting distribution of the plan and requests that no further copies be generated without his knowledge.