Comments 481-520 of 562.
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Lines(s) |
Submitter |
Organization |
Comment |
| 85-87 |
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Frank Borrelli |
The Vinyl Institute |
The VI appreciates the Task Group’s review and analysis of the cancer mortality data for Louisian... |
| 85-87, 31 |
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Sandra Steingraber |
Ithaca College |
The discussion of whether or not communities near PVC facilities experience higher risks of cance... |
| 86 |
14 |
Wilma Subra |
Subra Company |
“…parishes with the highest density of vinyl plants do not exhibit the highest incidence rates of... |
| 87 |
22 |
Michael McHugh |
E. Verner Johnson and
Associates |
The report states that VCM levels exceeded federal safe drinking water standards from
1997-2001.... |
| 87 |
38 |
Wilma Subra |
Subra Company |
“Current air monitoring data does not indicate a health risk, as mean air concentrations over all... |
| 87 |
37 |
Tom Lent |
Healthy Building Network |
"Additional data are needed to determine the potential health risk of individuals living in ... |
| 88 |
31-32 |
Douglas Wiegand |
Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) |
The statement that diisonoyl phthalate (DINP) has a shorter chain than DEHP is incorrect. DINP h... |
| 88 |
34-35 |
Douglas Wiegand |
Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) |
The statement that DEHP is the most widely used plasticizer in vinyl flooring covered in the repo... |
| 88 |
11-13 |
Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan |
European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates |
The statement “Since the establishment of the OHSA PEL of 1 ppm VCM, however, no new cases of ang... |
| 88 |
8-28 |
Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan |
European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates |
Please consider attached document Morbidity_cancer_VCM.doc |
| 88 |
31-34 |
Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan |
European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates |
The statement - “DEHP is the most commonly used phthalate in vinyl flooring” may be true for the ... |
| 88 |
17-20 |
Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan |
European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates |
We agree with the conclusion that due to mechanistic considerations DEHP should not be considered... |
| 88 |
30 |
Marian Stanley |
American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel |
The draft document states: “Phthalates, particularly di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, are used to make... |
| 88 |
31-34 |
Marian Stanley |
American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel |
This sentence reads as though DEHP, DBP, DINP and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) are all used in fl... |
| 88 |
34-36 |
Marian Stanley |
American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel |
Contrary to the assertion of the draft Task Group report, DEHP use in flooring is very limited, i... |
| 88 |
31-32 |
Jennifer Gaalswyk |
Armstrong World Industries |
Diisononyl phthalate does not have a shorter chain than DEHP. |
| 88 |
34-35 |
Jennifer Gaalswyk |
Armstrong World Industries |
DEHP is not the most widely used plasticizer in the vinyl flooring covered in this report (DINP, ... |
| 89 |
27-32 |
Arthur E. Dungan |
Chlorine Institute |
The data cited refer to discrepancies between reported mercury emissions and actual mercury emiss... |
| 89 |
36-38 |
Arthur E. Dungan |
Chlorine Institute |
We acknowledge that we don’t have complete evidence that definitively proves unaccounted for merc... |
| 89 |
3-17 |
Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan |
European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates |
The text refers to a retrospective epidemiological study (Ohlson and Hardell, 2000) indicating th... |
| 89-90 |
|
John Stuart |
Occidental International Corp. |
TSAC correctly notes that, with respect to the cited 65 tons of “unaccounted for” mercury in merc... |
| 89-90 |
41-44
1-4 |
Arthur E. Dungan |
Chlorine Institute |
Concerning the ACGIH TLV for mercury, we are unaware that ACGIH considers its TLV and/or BEI reco... |
| 89-90 |
21- 44
1-24
[3.5.2] |
Arthur E. Dungan |
Chlorine Institute |
The Chlorine Institute respectfully submits the following suggested re-write of
35.2 Morbidity ... |
| 9 |
37-41 |
Dudley Greeley |
University of Southern Maine |
The almost verbatim inclusion of information received from a Louisiana health facility placed in... |
| 9 |
6-9 |
Dave Kitts |
Mannington |
The way this is written – it leaves the impression that there is a high degree of occupational ca... |
| 9 |
28-36 |
Andrew Potts |
Cahill Associates, Inc. |
Authors seemed to disregard relevant data. For example, they state that annual average concentra... |
| 9 |
33-35 |
Kristi Ennis |
Boulder Associates, Inc. |
Potential risks of those living near production plants for chemicals, components, or end products... |
| 9 |
19 |
Douglas Wiegand |
Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) |
The Task Group should clarify when and how often it intends to update this PVC report. |
| 9 |
26-36 |
Laura Millberg |
|
For the existing data that identifies hazards, the report obscures rather than illuminates the in... |
| 9 |
40-41 |
Laura Millberg |
|
The report states that most parishes in Louisiana have liver cancer incidence rates below the sta... |
| 9 |
38-40 |
Laura Millberg |
|
This statement also is significant, because it indicates that residents of Louisiana have less ac... |
| 9 |
36 |
Jack Geibig |
Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee |
The consideration and dismissal of air monitoring data is inappropriate and does little to err on... |
| 9 |
5-6 |
Mike Kolosseus |
North American Pipe Corporation (Westlake Chemical) |
According to the report, particulate exposures dominate mortality risks. North American Pipe Cor... |
| 9 |
25-41 |
Frank Borrelli |
The Vinyl Institute |
We agree with your summary of the Air Monitoring Data for VCM and EDC that “the concentrations we... |
| 9 |
5 |
Tom Lent |
Healthy Building Network |
"...the total life cycle mortality results are dominated by particulate exposures" does... |
| 9 |
27 |
Tom Lent |
Healthy Building Network |
"...data were limited …precluding any substantive conclusion." There is plenty of data ... |
| 9 |
28 |
Tom Lent |
Healthy Building Network |
In general, however, the concentrations were low….two stations had averages that exceeded AAS…Ave... |
| 9 |
33 |
Tom Lent |
Healthy Building Network |
“Air data taken closer to ground level via … TAGA truck… in 1999, indicate concentrations that we... |
| 90 |
9-24 |
William Carroll |
OxyChem |
An analysis of the chloralkali facilities utilizing mercury shows that by far these plants are no... |
| 90 |
13 |
Ted Schettler |
Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center |
Potential neurodevelopmental toxic effects of mercury are omitted from the analysis “because the ... |