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33 26 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center “End users” do not include inhabitants of residences in this report. This is an obvious and sign...
33 27-35 Andrew Potts Cahill Associates, Inc. Again, the authors seem to dismiss important studies. While acknowledging that there only a “few...
33 24-25 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The draft report states that "[c]oncentrations of emissions from cork flooring were estimate...
33 27 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Residential exposures for vinyl products are not considered here as most …do not discrimina...
34 5 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center The report cites Clausen et al with respect to DEHP emissions from PVC flooring. Clausen et al s...
37 33 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Here PELs are claimed to be “protective”. The committee, however, previously acknowledges that PE...
37 §2.5.5 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) It would be helpful if the Task Group provided a further discussion of the real meaning of life c...
37 92 93 24-42 35-44 all Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH Regarding human health effects, we agree that extrapolating very high dose animal studies to huma...
38 34 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center “The committee did not undertake a comprehensive comparison of the various options for all applic...
38 39 Jane Rohde JSR Associates, Inc. Typo: were (delete “of”) selected.
38 40 Jane Rohde JSR Associates, Inc. Typo: exterior (delete “and”) use.
38 59-77 15-27 all Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH The use of normalization, both internally and externally, is one good way of presenting the data ...
39 32 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. The study should have considered other species of wood in addition to cedar. There simply is not...
39 27 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. Aluminum siding may have PVDF, acrylic, or polyester finish.
39 27-30 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. Aluminum siding will probably be repainted at least once in an assumed lifetime of 80 years, whic...
39 14-39 Martin White OxyVinyls The choice of lifetimes for siding products, as well as the lifetime to be studied, is clearly ar...
39 1-6 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center The assumption here is that the approach that the committee did use will serve as a valid screen ...
39 21 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA What is the basis for the 5% installation waste for siding products? Has the recycling or disp...
39 31-39 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects Wood siding in use in building is typically recoated with paint or stain every four to ten years....
39-40 32-12 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. The study should have considered the life-cycle effect of paint for wood and fiber cement siding....
4 5-10 Charlie Stephens Oregon Department of Energy The Task Group assembled for the task is the wrong group, and the 9-step process used has bypasse...
40 32-33 Mike Wallen American Maplan Corp There are three general types of PVC DWV in production in the USA: 1. Foamed (cellular core) whi...
40 Mark Heizer Interface Engineering, Inc. Comparison is solely of DWV (domestic waste and vent) use. However, PVC/CPVC is extensively used ...
40 17 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. 4 inch IPS should have been used rather than 3 inch IPS for comparison using cast iron pipe; smal...
40 19-20 Andrew Potts Cahill Associates, Inc. The delivery distance for most materials was assumed to be 500 miles. This large distance automa...
40 13 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Why are solvent cement and installation waste not considered for piping? The exclusion of solven...
40 8 Martha, Dave VanGeem, Shepherd CTLGroup, Portland Cement Association We recognize this draft report is an assessment of PVC materials. The authors chose fiber cement ...
41 30 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. Why was a different adhesive assumed for cork than for the other floor types? They can also be i...
41 27-32 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. Cork should not have been considered as a replacement for vinyl flooring. There is not enough co...
41 37 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. What is a "Swiss" window? This term is not used in the window industry in this country...
41 7-8 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. The presumed life spans for the various resilient flooring materials prejudices the study in favo...
41 15-32 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. The installation waste factor should be the same for all of the adhesives and for all of the shee...
41 4-32 Martin White OxyVinyls Assumption of a 50 year useful lifetime for cork clearly drives this assessment. As with siding,...
41 34-39 Martin White OxyVinyls The assessment of windows quite rightly assumes a service life of 50 years for all products. The...
41 10-16 Dave Kitts Mannington Was floor assumed to be 100% vinyl? Most commercial sheet products are as much ½ filler, ...
41 31-32 Dave Kitts Mannington Need to review assumption regarding zero installation waste for cork – that would be a rare insta...
41 8 Don Hodges Hodges & Hodges Architects Fifty years is an unrealistically long life for flooring products. Even the GSA, with exceptiona...
41 8, 30 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) The presumed 50-year life span of cork flooring is highly unrealistic and inappropriately skews t...
41 27-32 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) Two important practical considerations must be noted in the discussion of cork as an alternative ...
41 8 Jennifer Gaalswyk Armstrong World Industries Include specific documentation supporting the use phase life for flooring products. Cork floorin...