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Document Number: 

3DI-C-7 

Docket Number: 

A-88-02 

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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY A-88-02 

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards X - C - 7 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711 r 51 ST f 1 ~ 

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•—.:- • . - Mr. Edwin Gibbs 

President 

Gibbs Plating Company 

5210 Hovis Road \A\\ JAM I 81991 U'' M 

Charlotte, North Carolina 28208 '•--"

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Dear Mr. Gibbs: I EFAASRPOC FPA AIR POCKEE T j 

Enclosed is a draft of the trip report covering a visit by 

Mr. Al Vervaert and Ms. Barb Duletsky to the Gibbs Plating Company plant 

in Charlotte, North Carolina, on December 20, 1984. We would appreciate 

your reviewing the report for any errors or omissions. You may return 

the enclosed copy of the report with your written comments if you wish. 

A copy of the final version of the report will be sent to you for your 

records. Since this report will eventually become a part of the public 

record, we want to portray your operation as accurately as possible. 

If you believe that disclosure of any specific information contained 

in the trip report would reveal trade secrets or other confidential 

information, you should clearly identify the specific information. If 

the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines that 

there is a need to disclose such information, we will need, at that 

time, the following to support your claim: 

1. Measures taken by Gibbs Plating Company to guard against undesired 

disclosure of the specific information to others; 

2. The extent to which the specific information has been disclosed 

to others and the precautions taken in connection therewith; 

3. Pertinent confidentiality determinations, if any, by other 

Federal agencies (furnish a copy of any such determination, or reference 

to it, if available); and 

4. Whether Gibbs Plating Company asserts that disclosure of the 

specific information would be likely to result in substantial harmful 

effects on its competitive position, and, if so, what those harmful 

effects would be, why they should be viewed as substantial, and an 

explanation of the causal relationship between disclosure and such 

harmful effects. 

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Any specific information subsequently determined to constitute a 

trade secret will be protected under 18 U.S.C. 1905. However, all 

emission data will be available to the public. 

We respectfully request that you submit your review comments on the 

trip report by March 22, 1985. If you concur with the information 

contained in the report, we would appreciate a letter to that effect. 

If we do not hear from you by March 22, 1985, EPA will consider the 

report nonconfidential, complete, correct, and final. 

Thank you for your cooperation. The information supplied by Gibbs 

Plating Company will be most helpful in our study. 

If you have any questions or wish to give comments by phone, please 

call me at (919) 541-5601 or Ms. Barb Duletsky of MRI at (919) 781-5750. 

Sincerely, 

Al E. Vervaert 

Industrial Studies Branch 

Emission Standards and 

Engineering Division 

Enclosure 

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Docket No. A-88-02 

Subcategory I-C 

The finalized version of the enclosure may be 

found in docket item I-B- J3 . 

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