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10 14 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 The Risk Assessment does not account for the hazard to homeowners, tenants and neighbors due to ...
10 20 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 Manufacturers are eliminating PVC wherever possible yet the United States GREEN BUILDING Council...
10 1-13 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH Asthma has and will continue to be an important human health issue, along with mold and particula...
10 8 Marian Stanley American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel The draft document states, “In vitro studies show that DEHP is not estrogenic.” This is also dem...
10 11-13 Marian Stanley American Chemistry Council Phthalate Esters Panel The draft document states, “Additional data are needed before conclusions can be made regarding p...
10 24-25 Clark Brockman SERA Architects Reference the following document in the LEED TSAC PVC Study database: LEED™ TSAC PVC Task Grou...
10 24-25 Clark Brockman SERA Architects The USGBC’s mission statement as displayed on its website is: “The U.S. Green Building Council i...
10 1 Tracey Easthope Ecology Center The phthalate review is completely inadequate, and doesn't represent the emerging scientific...
10 14 Tracey Easthope Ecology Center The review of PVC's contribution to dioxin contamination is cursory, although the issue is a...
10 11-13 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The draft document states, “Additional data are needed before conclusions can be made regarding p...
10 14-16 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute We support the Task Group conclusion that with proper protective equipment, firefighters are not ...
10 16-19 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute We support the Task Group conclusion that backyard burning of household waste is a significant so...
10 1 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Two studies have shown link between asthma and rhinitis…and phthalates in home environment....
10 4 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network See Ted Schettler comments for a thorough critique of the task group's analysis of the scien...
10 14 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Fire discussion gives no indication that the task group considered dioxin formation from landfill...
10 14 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network The fire discussion gives no indication that the task group even considered dioxin formation from...
10 15 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "With proper protective equipment, firefighters are not at increased risk" from the haz...
10 17 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Dioxin levels emitted from barrel burning varies significantly with the chlorine content of...
10 30 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "The results hold up even though we have subjected both the LCA and the RA to sensitivity an...
10 30 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "...current body of knowledge as analyzed… does not support a credit for eliminating PVC or ...
10 36 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Data gaps … if information became available, could alter the results of the analysis." Comme...
10 41 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Materials-based credits are unnecessarily "blunt instruments." Rather, human and ...
10 14-19 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office This section dealing with PVC in fires is wholly inadequate and does not adequately evaluate kno...
10 11 20-42 1-39 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH We most certainly support your Conclusions and Recommendations on pages 10 and 11 of the report, ...
10-11 20-42, 1-39 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy The conclusions and recommendations presented are also without adequate foundation. They are sim...
105 7-12 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The analysis of cork flooring assumes only one type of cork flooring. All cork flooring is not t...
11 1-3 Diane Brandli Ashley McGraw Architects One of the raw materials for PVC (petroleum products) comes from a finite resource. And, the sup...
11 1-3 Jason McLennan BNIM Architects PVC is not treated as a specific material, but rather as a class of materials including pipe, sid...
11 16-18 Steve Kemp OxyChem Again, the report correctly notes that PVC is one of the most studied materials in the built envi...
11 16-23 Steve Scaccia Freedom Plastics Inc. We agree that the database for vinyl products shows that potential risks from vinyl building prod...
11 1-8 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA I am confused by the distinction made between “discouraging specific materials” and discouraging ...
11 16-18 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) RFCI agrees that with the Task Group's conclusion that "additional research needs to be...
11 24-28 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group encourages the Steering Committee to develop issue-based credits. We do not under...
11 33-34 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group encourages the Steering Committee to consider allowing certain innovation and desi...
11 29 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "...shorter term… allowing innovation and Design credits (that are)… working towards elimina...
11 16-23 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office The LEED PVC Assessment notes that the literature is “overwhelmingly PVC focused.” This is a res...
11 98 99 2-3, 24 - 28 26-29 9-13 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The Task Group needs to explain and provide examples of what it means by "issue-based credit...
11 99 33-35 17-23 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The Task Group should further explain its recommendation of "working toward eliminating a cl...
116 Table A Debbie Schober OxyChem The EPA IRIS document for EDC does not include a derivation of a reference concentration for chro...
116 19, entry in Table A Richard Johnson Tin Stabilizers Association (TSA) Table A has NA entered under RfD for dialkyltins. As noted above, OSHA has established a PEL for...