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49 35 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Fire discussion gives no indication that the Task Group considered the emissions from landfill fi...
49-51 Dave Kitts Mannington It’s apparent the Task Group only reviewed fire reports where PVC was studied. This is its own b...
49-51 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office Section 3.2.3 on PVC fires (as previously mentioned) is wholly inadequate. See Schreiber affidav...
5 9-12 Jason McLennan BNIM Architects Since when does the USGBC use LCA to inform its points? Is that why we have a recycled content c...
5 9-12 Jason McLennan BNIM Architects In some ways this is a moral and philosophical issue that is hard to express in a report such as ...
5 9 Dudley Greeley University of Southern Maine A study is only as good as the information included within the study. In this line “stakeholders...
5 14 Mark Heizer Interface Engineering, Inc. Wiring insulation, another widely used building material which is primarily a PVC product, has al...
5 13 Jonathan Herz General Services Administration The TSAC’s charge was to determine the soundness for a LEED credit for the avoidance of PVC mater...
5 21 Andrew Potts Cahill Associates, Inc. Not enough alternatives were analyzed for pipe materials. Two of the most common (especially for...
5 20 Matthew Dobson Vinyl Siding Institute, Inc. We do not feel all major cladding choices are considered under this report. Additional major cla...
5 16 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA I do not see anything in the TSAC charge requiring a finding that PVC-based materials are consist...
5 Jan Dwiggins Lamson & Sessions We would like to thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on this draft report, and for ...
5 1 D’Lane Wisner American Plastics Council The American Plastics Council (“APC”) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Assessment o...
5 24 D’Lane Wisner American Plastics Council In general, APC supports USGBC’s recent start to incorporate LCA into LEED. APC members and APC...
5 9-12 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy In the Executive Summary, the TSAC’s unfortunate charge is laid out. While the charge is simple-s...
5 13+ Eric Ridenour In scoping the report’s task, many parties advised the use of the precautionary principle. The D...
5 13 Susan Anderson Portland Office of Sustainable Development February 15, 2005 US Green Building Council 1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 508 Washington, DC...
5 24 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Why were LCA and Risk Assessment chosen? Significant critiques of the LCA/RA approach were provid...
5 16 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The criteria should not be whether PVC-based materials “are consistently worse” than alternative...
5 38 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The database, “pvc.buildinggreen.com” could not be accessed. Please provide a publically accessi...
50 6-18 Jason McLennan BNIM Architects With a family connected to the firefighting industry I was dismayed to read this whole section of...
50 33-34 William Carroll OxyChem The text accurately notes that data on cases of chloracne were collected. It would make more sen...
50 28 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Doesn’t “the evacuation of the local community to minimize exposures to contaminants whose levels...
50 36 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA It is not clear to me why “concerns” about various problems, as opposed to actual health effects,...
51 35 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center The discussion implies that the dioxin on the foliage of trees “disappeared”. That dioxin will p...
51 33 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Where did the dioxin that was on the leaves go?
51 28-37 John Stuart Occidental International Corp. In this paragraph it would be useful to note that there are no comparative studies of other massi...
51 28-31 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The VI recognizes that fires involving PVC has been raised as a concern to the task group but als...
51 31-37 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute We agree that the MOEE report provided useful information supporting the conclusion that PVC fire...
51 39 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network There is no discussion of why the Task Group considers the "identified 10 life cycle impact ...
52 10 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA What is the basis of the assumption that exposure doses do not exceed agency limits?
52 8-10 Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates Only workers working in VCM plants should be assumed exposed to EDC. Workers in polymerization pl...
53 11-30 Martin White OxyVinyls While the solvents mentioned may be used in joining PVC pipe, it is not true as the paper asserts...
53 11-30 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Failure to account for exposures to some solvents in the resin manufacturing industry because of ...
53 9 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA What is the basis of the assumption that exposure doses do not exceed agency limits?
53 31-36 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects See comment above for occupational health and safety risks of wood products. Physical hazards ar...
53 23 & 26 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 "It is acknowledged that this omission may result in artificially low risk estimates" !...
53 11-18 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The PVC manufacturing process does not use solvents for resin cleaning, but may use solvents for ...
53 31-41 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The report states that “it was not possible to develop risk estimates for fiber cement siding and...
53 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute In this overview regarding risk estimates we are concerned about bias in this methodology that ma...