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41 9 Jennifer Gaalswyk Armstrong World Industries Include documentation or reasoning supporting the assumption that all flooring product categories...
41 & 68 7-8 Dave Kitts Mannington Need to review assumptions regarding average life span of flooring. 50 years for cork vs. 18 for...
42 14 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. The wood that is used to make windows is not called "timber" in this country. The prop...
42 17-18 Eugene Groshong Arcom, Inc. Why are "spruce" and "beach" [beech] mentioned when no other wood species are...
42 20-21 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA Why is it assumed that oil-based paint will be used on both exterior and interior surfaces?
43 Steve Scaccia Freedom Plastics Inc. We commend USGBC for the exhaustive review of vinyl products and alternatives referenced in this ...
43 Douglas Wiegand Resilient Floor Covering Institute (RFCI) Cork flooring has the least available scientific inputs based on the current state of knowledge. ...
44-45 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office PVC has an extensive toxicological literature because of the serious toxicological concerns whic...
45 4-5 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute We agree that the sheer volume of literature attests to the fact that there is an extensive body ...
47 1-12 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Note that no studies have been done on fetal or infant primates, and therefore no data to support...
47 1-29 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center General population exposures to DEHP from all sources are probably higher than previously estimat...
47 15 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center See comment on 10-4 in executive summary.
47 8 Arjen, David Sevenster, Cadogan European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers, European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates We would propose adding information on some other primate studies to give additional support to t...
47 30-44 Jennifer Gaalswyk Armstrong World Industries We would challenge the assumption that resilient flooring is burned in backyard burning barrels. ...
47-49 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The discussion of Backyard Burning correctly points out that backyard burning of trash is current...
47-49 Judith Schreiber NYS Attorney General Office Backyard burning is not a relevant issue for this report.
48 19 Craig Kneeland NYSERDA There does not seem to be any consideration of the burning of materials such as vinyl siding in b...
48 5-9 John Stuart Occidental International Corp. The text mischaracterizes the position of US EPA regarding open burning. While it is true that P...
48 1-4 Alan Olson Ferro Corp., Cleveland, OH The discussion of dioxin formation is very interesting since it puts backyard burning into perspe...
48 19-21 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The text of the report provides a conclusion that is not supported by data in the relevant range....
48 19 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Clearly reducing PVC in household waste would reduce dioxin and furan emissions but that ch...
48 19 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network I assume that the reason this is not added to the weight of the evidence is that despite being ch...
49 1-9 William Carroll OxyChem In order to be congruent with EPA estimates of emissions from barrel burning (reproduced on page ...
49 33 Ted Schettler Dept of Medicine, Boston Medical Center Reducing total emissions may also be achieved by materials use policies that avoid the problem co...
49 35 Michael McHugh E. Verner Johnson and
Associates		 The Risk Assessment does not account for the hazard to homeowners, tenants and neighbors due to ...
49 33-34 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group suggests that additional research on reducing total emissions of dioxin, through c...
49 33-34 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group suggests that additional research on reducing total emissions of dioxin, through c...
49 1-9 Frank Borrelli The Vinyl Institute The Task Group should report and compare vinyl manufacturing emissions of dioxins following EPA’s...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "These values (for burn barrel dioxin emissions) are an order of magnitude higher than emiss...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network The chlorine industry as a whole (of which PVC manufacture is a major portion) reported in its To...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Another 810 g TEQ was transferred to “off site management”, some incinerated, some land filled, s...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Finally a massive 6900 g TEQ are “treated on and off site” most commonly in hazardous waste incin...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Indications are that these flows are not being kept out of the environment. Significant dioxin co...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network A 1999 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that residents near an EDC/VCM plant in Lou...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network This 12.3 g TEQ dioxin number for manufacturing releases is itself also suspect as it is derived ...
49 2 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Concerns about what happens to these flows and related issues led peer reviewers of the EPA dioxi...
49 20 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "It cannot be assumed that the sources that make the largest contributions to overall dioxin...
49 33 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network "Additional research is needed on reducing total emissions through command and control techn...
49 35 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network Studies of a few major PVC related fires are cited that purportedly show that dioxin contaminatio...
49 35 Tom Lent Healthy Building Network PVC in fires. See Deborah Wallace's comments expressing concerns about the depth of the Task...