Posted on 08/08/2018 6:14:24 PM PDT by Fawn
'New Uses' of Asbestos? Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a framework that will create opportunities for "new uses" of asbestos. On June 1, the EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics announced plans for a "Significant New Use Rule" (SNUR) for the substance
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There is no way any company would use asbestos for anything.
Asbestos is and has always been used in construction for many years.
I just spent the whole day at a major wireless company summit and our environmental regulators gave us countless examples of how asbestos is STILL being used to this day.
Asbestos has never been eliminate in manufacturing. It just does not go into commercial ventures like homes / buildings. Think rubber Rocket booster seals and whatnot. No reason for worry until we see if there is any devil in the details.
Thanks for that info...then what is the change Trump is doing here?
Johns-Manville is owned by Warren Buffett, no?
Just sayin...
Will he allow lead in paint again? Will he let, oh, never mind.
Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA is proposing a significant new use rule (SNUR) for asbestos as defined under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. The proposed significant new use of asbestos (including as part of an article) is manufacturing (including importing) or processing for certain uses identified by EPA as no longer ongoing.
The Agency has found no information indicating that the following uses are ongoing, and therefore, the following uses are subject to this proposed SNUR: Adhesives, sealants, and roof and non-roof coatings; arc chutes; beater-add gaskets; extruded sealant tape and other tape; filler for acetylene cylinders; high-grade electrical paper; millboard; missile liner; pipeline wrap; reinforced plastics; roofing felt; separators in fuel cells and batteries; vinyl-asbestos floor tile; and any other building material (other than cement).
Persons subject to the SNUR would be required to notify EPA at least 90 days before commencing any manufacturing (including importing) or processing of asbestos (including as part of an article) for a significant new use. The required notification initiates EPA's evaluation of the conditions of use associated with the intended use within the applicable review period. Manufacturing (including importing) and processing (including as part of an article) for the significant new use may not commence until EPA has conducted a review of the notice, made an appropriate determination on the notice, and taken such actions as are required in association with that determination.
Dates
Comments must be received on or before August 10, 2018. Addresses Submit your comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0159, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
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Is? Will? Might? Could?
Typical speculative BS by the MSM.
Roof coatings are next to worthless since the Asbestos fibers were removed. They have never found anything else to use that is even close.
The elimination of asbestos was one of the greatest disasters of the last century.
Yes, if you stand in a closed space and spray chrysolite out of a hose with no mask for twelve hours, and you do it for years, there is a cancer risk.
Going to school in a building with asbestos insulated pipes is entirely safe.
Hope this isn’t true....
Why?
The asbestos scare has been completely overhyped.
“Going to school in a building with asbestos insulated pipes is entirely safe.”
It’s perfectly safe until they “remediate” it.
After my 20 year career in the Navy I have spent 20 more years working in a shipyard. I have never even heard of anyone with mesothelioma. I also believe the hazards are overblown.
... and yet high rise buildings are being leveled to avoid asbestos removal. It is nuts.
Abestosis is an issue for people exposed to high levels of asbestos on a daily basis for years with no respiratory equipment.
Asbestos is a rock naturally occurring in the mountains. The outdoor air in the Adirondacks exceeds the allegedly safe levels for indoor air quality set by NYS.
Especially on a windy day when the winds are out of the NW from the cliffs in Canada on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
I’ve worked in a coal-fired power plant for 38 years. We still find asbestos, but the threat is WAY overhyped.
A lot of it, we know the exact location, but it is totally harmless in its present condition.
Sometimes, though we have to abate it. Funny story, when I took my asbestos abatement supervisor course, our instructor told me about Sweet Sweet Connie, who had graduated that course. When she was handed her certificate, she said “I guess now I’m a Master Abater”!
Chrysotile (white asbestos), was far more common in North American buildings, with huge mines in Quebec producing it in the past.
Most asbestos regulations don't distinguish between asbestos types. All types are considered to be equally deadly. Lawyers love that.
Interestingly, many San Francisco residents (as if needles and feces in the streets weren't enough) live near naturally occurring outcrops of chrysotile asbestos. The soil is full of the stuff. Background levels of asbestos are unavoidable there.
Asbestos is no where near the danger it has been made out to be. Truth is outside the US it is still used a lot.
The biggest problem is manufacturing and some handling of it should it become friable.
Asbestos is still one of the best insulations and fire proof materials available and we need to start using it again with proper controls.
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