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Document Number: 

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Docket Number: 

A-94-52 

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_^J PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. 

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A-94-52 

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Central Park West 

5001 South Miami Boulevard, Suite 300 

P.O. Box 12077 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2077 

(919)941-0333 

FAX (919) 941-0234 

Mr. Bob Howard 

Weber and Sons Button Co., Inc. 

1008 E. 6th Street 

Muscatine, Iowa 52761 

March 19,1997 

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Dear Mr. Howard: 

As we discussed on the telephone yesterday, Pacific Environmental Services, Inc. (PES) 

is the contractor assisting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the development 

of a national emission standard for hazardous air pollutents (NESHAP) for reinforced plastic 

composites source category. In August of 1993, your company submitted a response to a 

screening surveyed distributed by the EPA (see attachment). PES is currently reviewing a large 

number of these survey responses, including the one submitted by your comply. 

Currently, we are subcategorizing the reinforced plastic composites source category into a 

number of subcategories. These subcategories include: polymer casting, filament winding, 

compression molding, injection molding, pultrusion, BMC m^ufacturing, SMC manufacturing, 

continuous lamination, continuous casting, sprayup, hand layup, centrifugal casting, and resin 

transfer molding. Based oh the information submitted in the 1993, we are not sure which of 

these subcategories are most applicable to the process(es) used at your facility. Therefore, we are 

requesting more specific information (e.g., flow diagrams, additional text) to help identify which 

of these subcategories are applicable to your processes). 

If 4^ny ofthe information you submit in response to this request is considered by your 

company to be confidential business information (CBI), please indicate those portions of your 

response considered to be CBI £tnd mail the entire response to: 

Ms. Melva Toomer 

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

CBI Manager 

411 West Chapel Hill Street, Room 944 

Durham, North Carolina 27701 

If none ofthe information in your response to this request is considered by your company to be 

CBI, please submit the response directly to me either through the mail or through our fax number 

(919) 941-0234. Alternatively, feel free to call me or Melanie Proctor with your response. 

WASHINQTON, D.C. • RESEARCH TRIANQLE PARK, NC • LOS ANQELES. CA • CINCINNATI. OH 

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Mr. Bob Howard 

March 19,1997 

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If you have any questions concerning this request, please do not hesitate to call me or 

Melanie Proctor at (919) 941-0333 or the EPA task order project officer, Dr. Madeleine Strum, at 

(919) 541-2383. Thank you for your cooperation. 

Sincerely, 

PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. 

Kenneth R. Meardon 

Project Lead 

Attachment 

cc: PES Project File (w/o attachment) 

Melanie Proctor, PES (w/o attachment) 

Madeleine Strum, US EPA (w/o attachment) 

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Docket No. A-94-52 

Subcategory II-C 

The enclosures with this document are docket Item No. II-D- 6 63 

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