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53 & 55 35 & 24 Dave Kitts Mannington There certainly must be ample information regarding wood dust as a potential nasal carcinogen, si...
53 117 12 TABLE “B” Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute In its submittal to the PVC Task Group dated April 2, 2004, the VI referenced an International OE...
54 30-31 Mike Wallen American Maplan Corp I currently know of no manufacturers in the world using Barium Cadmium stabilizers in the manufac...
54 30-31 Martin White OxyVinyls For manufacture of PVC pipe in the US, it is highly unlikely that barium and particularly cadmium...
54 3-20 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects See comment above for occupational health and safety risks of wood products.
54 30-31 John Batt Arkema Inc. Reference is made in the report that cadmium and barium heat stabilizers are used in PVC pipe. T...
54 30 Richard Johnson Tin Stabilizers Association (TSA) Report states “It was assumed that exposure to cadmium and barium heat stabilizers would occur in...
54 30 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute Report states “It was assumed that exposure to cadmium and barium heat stabilizers would occur in...
54 31 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Vinyl Institute understands that the OSHA PEL for all organotin compounds is 0.1 mg/m3 and th...
54 7 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Forrest indicated that "compounds emitted from thermal processing of vinyl resin were low an...
54,10 & 32 6,15 & 21 Michelle Halle Stern Delta Institute I found particularly disturbing the conclusion that if controls were available, the risks should ...
55 Debbie Schober OxyChem EDC is only a suspect carcinogen. Inclusion of it and use of a relatively old slope factor is a ...
55 13 Dave Kitts Mannington Was there any review or evaluation of acrolein which is emitted during the oxidation of linseed o...
55 11-17 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects Formaldehyde used as a binder in cork flooring products is not without risk. It is not clear fro...
55 24-25 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects Cancer is not the only risk associated with wood product extraction and fabrication.
55 Table 5 Jack Geibig Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee		 The footnote to the table indicates that shaded values were calculated using at least one PEL. Ho...
55 Table 5 Jack Geibig Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies
University of Tennessee		 Normalization of risk data by production amount is not appropriate. This method assumes a correl...
55, 116 Table 5 Table A Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute EDC is classified as a suspect human carcinogen based on two long-term carcinogenicity studies in...
55-58 Debbie Schober OxyChem In many cases, risk assessments calculated in these pages do not make qualitative sense. As an e...
55-59 Steve Kemp OxyChem Similarly, the assumptions made regarding exposure in the C2S category, grossly overestimates the...
55-59 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The assumptions made regarding exposure in the C2S category, overestimates the exposure of any fa...
59 13-19 Michael Lehmberg Williams + Paddon, Architects + Planners, Inc. This report appears to indict fiber cement siding as the worst performing option for siding from ...
59 6-7 Martin White OxyVinyls The text notes that comparisons among products are highly dependent upon the use of common databa...
59 16-17 Martha, Dave VanGeem, Shepherd CTLGroup, Portland Cement Association We recognize this draft report is an assessment of PVC materials. The authors chose fiber cement ...
59 1 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Vinyl siding tends to be worse than two of the three alternatives in most LCA categories.
59 3 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Different assumptions and data sources for the LCA modeling can lead to variations in the r...
6 28-30 Dudley Greeley University of Southern Maine The 15 year old vinyl cladding on one of my prime windows has suffered difficult-to-repair struct...
6 1 Mark Heizer Interface Engineering, Inc. LCA and the entire study completely ignore recycling of product, where PVC is a failure (as compa...
6 7-31 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy LCA, as currently structured and practiced, is not up to the task presented. The impact categor...
6 1-42 Laura Millberg Last year, I fully supported the concept of an integrated methodology that included adherence to ...
6 32 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 The Risk Assessment does not account for the risks to the public, the nation and the environment...
6 21-24 Tracey Easthope Ecology Center The parameters considered to assess human health hazards are not adequate. Some of the largest e...
6 1-31 Sandra Steingraber Ithaca College Key areas of concern are not included in the categories of impact. These include threat of groun...
6 1-31 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The Life Cycle Assessment omits an assessment of the immediate risks to life and health posed by...
6 & 7 36-42,1-14 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy Risk Assessment is a questionable analysis tool in its own right. Even if this methodology were ...
6 9 28-29 13-14 Mike Kolosseus North American Pipe Corporation (Westlake Chemical) Service life of piping systems using differing materials should be considered in the LCA. Materi...
61 10-14 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute One conclusion which is missing from the text but could be drawn from the chart is that using com...
61 12 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Population particulate risk to human health exceeds the estimated population cancer risk to...
62 8-11 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The following statement should be deleted from the report. “Based on the figure below, among the...
62 8 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Vinyl siding leads to the highest mortality risks, while wood siding leads to the lowest. H...