EPA (Stanley T. Cuffe) to Dr. Harry Rhodes Requesting a Visit to the King City Mill for the Asbestos NESHAP Review, with Enclosures (1981)

Letter from EPA's Emission Standards and Engineering Division to Union Carbide's Metals Division asking to send RTI and Battelle Columbus Laboratory representatives, with an EPA staff member, to visit the King City, California mill. The visit was part of EPA's information gathering to decide whether to revise the asbestos NESHAP. The letter is followed by six enclosures: EPA's Section 114 authority, designations of RTI and Battelle as authorized representatives, confidentiality procedures, a questionnaire on asbestos milling and emission controls, and a Battelle work assignment.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-3: Cover letter from Stanley T. Cuffe, EPA, to Dr. Harry Rhodes, Union Carbide, requesting a visit to the King City mill (Feb. 25, 1981)
• Pages 4-5: Enclosure 1: EPA's information gathering authority under Section 114 of the Clean Air Act
• Page 6: Enclosure 2: Designation of Research Triangle Institute as authorized representative
• Page 7: Enclosure 3: Designation of Battelle Columbus Laboratories as authorized representative
• Pages 8-17: Enclosure 4: Procedures for safeguarding privileged information (EPA memorandum dated Feb. 28, 1978)
• Pages 18-19: Enclosures A and B to Enclosure 4: Privileged Information Control Record and Treatment of Confidential Information agreement form
• Pages 20-22: Enclosure 5: Questionnaire on asbestos milling, manufacturing and fabricating (process, baghouses, work practices, waste disposal)
• Pages 23-24: Enclosure 6: EPA work assignment to Battelle for a feasibility study of asbestos source sampling methods (Dec. 17, 1980)

People and organizations

From Stanley T. Cuffe (Chief, Industrial Studies Branch, Emission Standards and Engineering Division) to Dr. Harry Rhodes (Technology Manager, Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division, Niagara Falls, New York).

• Stanley T. Cuffe (author)
• Harrison B. Rhodes (recipient)
• EPA (its organization)
• Battelle Columbus Laboratory (named)
• Emission Standards and Engineering Division (named)
• Industrial Studies Branch (named)
• Metals Division (named)
• Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (named)
• Office of General Counsel (named)
• Research Triangle Institute (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · EPA · NESHAP · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

About this copy

This is document UC-4892 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 24 pages. Production numbers A16633 to X411047.