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IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ALLOWING ASBESTOS BACK INTO THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY?
Newsweek ^ | 8/7/18 | CHANTAL DA SILVA

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Reference
KEYWORDS: asbestos
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Hope this isn't true....
1 posted on 08/08/2018 6:14:24 PM PDT by Fawn
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To: Fawn

There is no way any company would use asbestos for anything.


2 posted on 08/08/2018 6:19:09 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Fawn

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.


3 posted on 08/08/2018 6:19:10 PM PDT by Dacula (I miss my Val - 312 days - 08-08-2018 would have been 20 years)
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To: Fawn

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.


4 posted on 08/08/2018 6:19:30 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21; Dacula

Thanks for that info...then what is the change Trump is doing here?


5 posted on 08/08/2018 6:23:43 PM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Fawn

Johns-Manville is owned by Warren Buffett, no?

Just sayin...


6 posted on 08/08/2018 6:27:30 PM PDT by SargeK
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To: Fawn

Will he allow lead in paint again? Will he let, oh, never mind.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 6:28:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Fawn

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0159-0001


8 posted on 08/08/2018 6:30:45 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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Summary

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.

Mail: Document Control Office (7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001. Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.

9 posted on 08/08/2018 6:34:32 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Fawn

Is? Will? Might? Could?

Typical speculative BS by the MSM.


10 posted on 08/08/2018 6:37:49 PM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Fawn

Roof coatings are next to worthless since the Asbestos fibers were removed. They have never found anything else to use that is even close.


11 posted on 08/08/2018 6:38:08 PM PDT by Revel
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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.


12 posted on 08/08/2018 6:41:13 PM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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Hope this isn’t true....

Why?

The asbestos scare has been completely overhyped.


13 posted on 08/08/2018 6:42:32 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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“Going to school in a building with asbestos insulated pipes is entirely safe.”

It’s perfectly safe until they “remediate” it.


14 posted on 08/08/2018 6:45:32 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: marktwain

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.


15 posted on 08/08/2018 6:49:06 PM PDT by suthener (Et)
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Going to school in a building with asbestos insulated pipes is entirely safe.

... and yet high rise buildings are being leveled to avoid asbestos removal. It is nuts.

16 posted on 08/08/2018 6:49:43 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Fawn

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.


17 posted on 08/08/2018 6:50:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Fawn

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”!


18 posted on 08/08/2018 6:53:18 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: marktwain
Many of the mesothelioma studies were done on South African miners, who were definitely exposed to the "nasty" brown and blue types of asbestos (amosite and crocidolite).

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.

19 posted on 08/08/2018 7:01:33 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Fawn

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.


20 posted on 08/08/2018 7:04:04 PM PDT by Skwor
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