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OAR Box 1833 

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Document Number: 

139) l-C-30 

Docket Number: 

A-88-02 

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A-88-02 

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0* „ *:? UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards tNMr^ (Jttice ot Air Uuaiity nannmg ana stanaaras 

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27 FEB 1986 

Environmental Engineer A- * * 

Lufkin® U M \ BI W 

Post Office Box 728 

Apex, North Carolina 27502 

Dear Mr. Caton: 

Enclosed is a draft of the trip report covering a visit by Mr. Al 

Vervaert and Ms. Cynthia Dowd-Monroe of the U. S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and Mr. Charles Hester and Mr. Randy Strait of Midwest 

Research Institute (MRI) to the Lufkin® plant in Apex, North Carolina, on 

December 19, 1985. 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. 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 

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 Lufkin® 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 Lufkin® 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. 

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why they should be viewed as substantial, and an explanation of the causal 

relationship between disclosure and such harmful effects. 

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 10, 1986. 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 10, 1986, EPA will consider the report 

nonconfidential, complete, correct, and final. 

Thank you for your cooperation. The information supplied by you and 

plant personnel 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 Mr. Hester or Mr. Strait of MRI at (919) 781-5750. 

Sincerely, 

Al 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- /Q .