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OAR Box 1846 

Prepped by Ollie Stewart 

Document Number: 

82) IV-A-4 

Docket Number: 

A-90-07 

Printed 11/18/2008 7:30:17 AM Sheet 82 of 93 
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800-424-2495 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 

Jun e 30 , 199 3 

Sheri Dunatchik 

Environmental Protection Agency 

2565 Plymouth Road 

Ann Arbor, MI 48105 

Dear Sheri: 

The following letter of transmittal will provide you with 

information regarding the gathering and processing of the data 

recently sent to you via diskette. 

Basic business information was collected as follows: 

1. LOOKUP - Businesses were looked up via an on-line hookup to 

the main Dun & Bradstreet database system. Criteria for 

search was name of business and state. Where several examples 

were found, the business was chosen based on address given by 

client. When business was found, the business data was 

inserted into the desired client format. 

2. VERIFICATION - Businesses not found via the above method were 

put through a verification search, consisting in most cases of 

phone research, in some cases physical research (i.e., a D&B 

analyst drove to the business site to see if it was still 

valid.) When the business was found, the business data was 

inserted into the desired client format. Businesses not found 

at this stage were deemed "Unable to Locate". 

It should be noted that in the above process, foreign records were 

submitted to the Lookup process only. Verification of foreign 

records requires a longer time period. 
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Sheri Dunatchik 

Transmittal Letter 

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Results of the search: 

Records submitted 513 

Records returned 513 

Total Matches 377 (73.5%) 

Headquarters 119 (23%) 

Single Locations 75 (14.5%) 

Branches 59 (11.5%) 

Out of Business 123 (24%) 

Subsidiary 1 (.5%) 

Sales Figures provided . . 311 (86.5% of all 

matches) 

Unable to Locate 136 (26.5%) 

Following is a review of data elements that may need further 

clarification: 

* Legal Name vs. DBA Company Name: 

The legal name of a company is the name as legally registered. 

The DBA (Doing Business As) name is the name the company goes 

by on a daily basis. For example, 7-Eleven is the DBA name of 

Southland Corporation, and Southland Corporation is the legal 

name of the company. 

* Annual Sales: 

This figure is taken from financial statements where 

available. When statements are not available, we ask the 

business owner for the figure, and then correlate this figure 

via banking information, data we receive from creditors, and 

a variety of other business sources. 

* Net Worth: 

Where Annual Sales was not available, we provided Net Worth 

where available. 

* Former Company DUNS: 

When a company has ceased to exist legally and been absorbed 

into another company, the Former Company DUNS will establish 

linkage for you to retrace back to the former business 

establishment. 
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Sheri Dunatchik 

Transmittal Letter 

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Subsidiary: 

This is a Y or N field, indicating if the business is a 

subsidiary of another business. The definition of a 

Subsidiary is a company that is more than 50% owned by another 

company. 

Primary SIC: 

The Standard Industrial Classification tells what line of 

business the company is in. Primary SIC is the line of 

business that the company makes the majority of its business 

in. A business record in our database can also carry 

Secondary SIC's which detail other lines of business the 

company is involved in. 

Type of Location — Possible values are: 

Blank, - We were unable to locate the company, therefore, 

we cannot make a judgement as to what type of location 

they represent. 

OB - Out of Business. A company is judged to be out of 

business when we contact the owner, the State Corporation 

Commission, or even directory assistance and learn that 

the number has been disconnected. Any of the above 

instances confirm that the business did at one time 

exist. This is in contrast to the instance where we are 

unable to locate — if we cannot locate, we cannot 

confirm that they ever existed, so we cannot determine 

that they are indeed out of business. 

HO - Headquarters — This location has branches reporting 

to it, and those branches bear the same name. A 

Headquarters can also be a single location, but where 

both values were available, Headquarters was chosen. It 

is possible that a Headquarters may answer to another 

location, and so be a Branch or Subsidiary of another 

company. 

BE - Branch — A company location that reports to a 

headquarters and carries the same name as the 

headquarters. Branches carry no annual sales or 

employment counts, since these figures "roll up" to the 

headquarters in our database. So, branches will account 

for some "missing" figures in sales and employment. 

SL - Single Location — A business establishment with no 

branches reporting to it. This business can also be a 

parent and/or subsidiary of another business. 

SB - Subsidiary — A company that is more than 50% owned 

by another company. There is only one subsidiary in your 

database. Subsidiaries answer to Parents, and there are 

no parents in your database. 
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Sheri Dunatchik 

Transmittal Letter 

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* Major Recent Events: 

In Dun & Bradstreet reports, there is a section entitled 

"Special Events". This area tells any recent event in the 

company's history that might be of interest to anyone 

considering dealing with that company in a financial sense. 

This information has been entered whole into your database. 

As we discussed, it would be best for you to edit this text to 

retain only what is of interest to you. 

* Why Company Cannot be Located: 

In the event that a company is out of business or we are 

unable to locate, we will tell you so. We also will tell you 

what steps were taken to locate a non-locatable company. 

* The second section of the report, starting with HQ Duns, 

pertains to the headquarters of the business in question if 

one exists. The information corresponds to the explanations 

above, but for the headquarters company. 

Sincerely, 

Kathryn E. Brigham 

Government Support Manager 

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cc: Michael Caskin