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Comments on Draft Report
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65 17 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Particulate risk versus cancer risk: This conclusion is premature and may be totally invalid. See...
66 14 Jonathan Herz General Services Administration The use of “cradle-to-site LCA plus cradle-to-site installation and use-phase risk” ignores the c...
67 6 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "cast iron leads to the highest mortality risks" The validity of this conclusion is in ...
67-72 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The Task Group must correct all results for cork stated or displayed in Section 3.3.4 that are af...
67-72 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The Task Group analysis of emissions from cork flooring used the emission factor data presented i...
68 7-9 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The presumed 50-year life span of cork flooring is highly unrealistic and inappropriately skews t...
68 Figure 16 Jennifer Gaalswyk Armstrong World Industries Include a further synopsis of the real meaning of life cycle impact data when the range of error ...
68 10 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "We do not observe one material option performing consistently poorest among the options acr...
69 15 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Particulate risk versus cancer risk: This conclusion is premature and may be totally invalid. See...
7 26 Vernon Abelsen SMR Architects By starting this section with a focus on wood and aluminum (siding) the argument for/against the ...
7 29 Mark Heizer Interface Engineering, Inc. 50 year life cycle for PVC piping is not appropriate for a comparison with other products. Cast I...
7 41 Mark Heizer Interface Engineering, Inc. ABS is showing to be a very strong candidate for DWV use as both environmentally friendly and les...
7 22-24 Debbie Schober OxyChem “This comparison shows that occupational cancer risks are far from negligible in relation to heal...
7 33-35 Matthew Dobson Vinyl Siding Institute, Inc. The statement that “vinyl siding leads to the highest total mortality risks” is misleading and ha...
7 33-39 Jane Rohde JSR Associates, Inc. Agree with the recommendation for further analysis and findings on worker exposure as recommended...
7 Jan Dwiggins Lamson & Sessions This report discusses the application of PVC pipe for Drain, Waste and Vent (DWV) applications. ...
7 26-39 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects While workplace risks for aluminum and PVC manufacturing are substantial, the occupational health...
7 11 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects See comment above for occupational health and safety risks of wood products.
7 3 John Blue California Integrated Waste Management Board The report mentions that risk for end users in the home environment was not assessed due to a lac...
7 5 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The Draft Report states, "Exposure of end users in a home environment was not assessed becau...
7 15-24 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy The combination of LCA and RA is more questionable than either of the tools used alone. Indeed, ...
7 5-24 Laura Millberg What happens to LEED’s role in market transformation if it stays stuck in a neutral position, bas...
7 Tracey Easthope Ecology Center The committee used tools that are simply inadequate to the task at hand Risk assessment and life...
7 33-35 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Executive Summary states that, “vinyl siding leads to the highest total mortality risks while...
7 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Since exposure data were not available for construction and end use phases for other buildi...
7 7 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network How does a risk assessment account for the persistence and bioconcentration that PBTs, particular...
7 22 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network We welcome the Task Group’s careful scrutiny of occupational exposures and agree that they "...
7 34 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Vinyl siding leads to the highest total mortality risks" This appears to be evidence that PV...
7 22-24 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The assessment notes high occupational cancer risks and high mortality risks in PVC manufacture ...
7 8 39 40 41 42 15-42 1-43 13-39 1-39 1-39 1-23 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH Based upon current data, the 50 year lifetime for cork flooring may be open to debate. Fifty yea...
70 13 Jonathan Herz General Services Administration The study misses the point. The goal is not to eliminate PVC’s but to minimize introduction of to...
71 10 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) Reference to "Figure 19" is incorrect; it should be "Figure 20"
71 12 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) Reference to "Figure 20" is incorrect; it should be "Figure 21"
71 4 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "The median provides a measure of central tendency which is more robust, less susceptible to...
73 5 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "In contrast with the other product groups … the results for windows are remarkably similar ...
75 1 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Not surprisingly, the human health particulate numbers are high and don't vary much between ...
76 7-10 Martin White OxyVinyls The conclusion that the key to window analysis is the energy efficiency, rather than the frame ma...
76 5 Michelle Halle Stern Delta Institute Please provide a more detailed explanation of how performance and risk associated with windows is...
76 7-10 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute We agree with the conclusion that energy efficiency is the key to window performance rather than ...
77 10 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA The wording of this bullet is unusual. Is it reasonable to assume that workers using carcinogeni...