Union Carbide Brownsville Asbestos Waste Shipping Tickets (1979), Hazardous Waste Manifests (1989) and W. G. Kahler II Memo to J. Nesmith on Manifest Descriptions (1992)

Compilation of Union Carbide records on disposal of asbestos-containing waste at Brownsville, Texas: Texas Water Quality Board industrial waste shipping tickets from December 1979 for asbestos-containing insulation sent to the Brownsville sanitary landfill, Texas Water Commission hazardous waste manifests with scale tickets for shipments of asbestos pipe and vessel insulation to the Harlingen City Landfill, and a March 10, 1992 memo from W. G. Kahler II on describing non-DOT/EPA regulated wastes on the manifest, followed by draft instructions for completing the Texas manifest for asbestos waste. Only pages 1-40 and 781-785 of the 785-page exhibit were reviewed.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: Texas Water Quality Board industrial waste shipping-control ticket 064616 (asbestos dust, asbestos-containing insulation, Brownsville to city landfill, Dec. 1979) and instructions page
• Pages 3-4: Shipping-control ticket 064617, same shipper, waste and destination, with instructions page
• Pages 5-6: Shipping-control ticket 064618, with instructions page
• Pages 7-8: Shipping-control ticket 064619, with instructions page
• Pages 9-10: Shipping-control ticket 064620, with instructions page
• Page 11: Partial receiver's shipping ticket log sheet (TDWR waste permit, quantity and comments columns), largely illegible in OCR
• Pages 12-13: Shipping-control ticket (ticket number not legible in OCR), with instructions page
• Pages 14-15: Shipping-control ticket 064614 (OCR shows 'Plastics Div.' as company), with instructions page
• Page 16: Page bearing only a Bates number (BRA 0023); no other text
• Pages 17-40: 1989 Cardinal scale tickets and Texas Water Commission Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifests (Union Carbide, Brownsville to Harlingen City Landfill; hazardous substance, solid N.O.S. (asbestos); pipe and vessel insulation), with manifest instruction pages
• Page 781: March 10, 1992 memo, W. G. Kahler II to J. Nesmith, on describing non-U.S. DOT/U.S. EPA regulated wastes on the Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest
• Page 782: Handwritten tabular list of dates, quantities and bag counts; mostly illegible in OCR
• Pages 783-784: Draft instructions for completing the Texas Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest for municipal asbestos-containing waste, with Texas waste codes for asbestos waste
• Page 785: Page with only the Bates number BRA 0801

People and organizations

From W. G. Kahler II (Transportation Safety & Regulations (C-1), Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company Inc. (author of the 1992 memo only)) to J. d. Nesmith.

• W. G. Kahler, Ii. (author)
• Brownsville Navigation District (named)
• City of Brownsville (named)
• Texas Water Commission (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos insulation: pipe covering, block, and insulating cement · Texas Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-1672 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 785 pages. Production numbers BRA 0008 to BRA 0801.