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Document Number: 

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Docket Number: 

A-88-02 

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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards 

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711 

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A-88-0P 

Mr. Jim Anderson 

Vice President of Manufacturing 

T&S Brass and Bronze Works 

Route 4 

Old Buncombe Road 

Travelers Rest, South Carolina 29690 

Dear Mr. Anderson: 

JAN I 8199! 

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Enclosed is a draft of the trip report covering a visit by Ms. Barb 

Duletsky and Mr. Charles Hester of Midwest Research Institute to the 

T&S Brass and Bronze Works plant in Travelers Rest, South Carolina, on 

March 7, 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 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 T&S Brass and Bronze Works 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 T&S Brass and Bronze Works 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 

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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 April 30, 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 April 30, 1985, EPA will consider the 

report nonconfidential, complete, correct, and final. 

Thank you for your cooperation. The information supplied by T&S 

Brass and Bronze Works 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. Duletsky 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- n . 

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