To VI HSE Committee, Per the email below from Greg Clark at Keller and Heckman, Dow Europe has filed the requisite TSCA Section 8e filing with respect to the new health information made available on Ethylene Dichloride. As soon as the document becomes available to circulate, I will provide a copy to this Committee. Please [...]

To VI HSE Committee: The VI presented the attached verbal comments at NIOSH’s public meeting on its proposed Occupational Exposure Banding (OEB) process. The Federal Register notice and NIOSH’s draft guidance are attached as a reference. NIOSH had several good slide presentations about their proposal, and I will forward those as they become available. My [...]

To VI HSE Committee, As you know, EPA delayed the effective date of its changes to the Agency’s Risk Management Program (RMP) until February 19, 2019. EPA asked for comments on this delay per the attached Federal Register notification. The VI filed comments on Friday, May 19, 2017 to EPA’s docket on the subject. VI’s [...]

To VI HSE Committee, At the request of VI member ExxonMobil, VI filed the brief comments below to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in response to their request to the public for information on uses and health effects of DINP plasticizers. Since some end products such as appliances that would contain power cords plasticized with [...]

To VI HSE Committee, Attached is the agenda and attachments for our 2nd quarter 2017 conference call. Due to time constraints for several participants, the call has been shortened to 1 hour. I hope to provide the latest draft of our comments to EPA on regulatory reform shortly before the call; VI’s comments must be [...]

To VI HSE Committee, and PVC MACT Working Group, Greg Clark of Keller and Heckman has prepared the attached draft of comments to submit with respect to EPA’s Office of Policy request for comments on regulatory improvement (FR notice attached). Greg has requested the members provide information to augment the comments, and his suggested information [...]

To VI HSE Committee, The Vinyl Institute joined the list of 125 trade associations that signed on to the attached letter that urges the Chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations to continue funding EPA’s implementation of the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act improvements of TSCA. As you know, VI has submitted 6 letters [...]

Hello Aine and Shige, It looks like Dick Doyle circulated the link last Friday for the updated VI fire paper. I am attached a pdf version of the paper in case you were not able to download it. Per our discussion, this is a modern version of the latest fire technology thinking and was prepared [...]