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,N,S1.o 1tA ?~' s UNITED STATES EKVIRCNMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY wASftOTON, O.c. 20460 •!IIN 12 1991 oiFicE aF A!R AMO q~ON? s4N John F. Banthaf III fixecutive Director & Chief Counsel Action on Smoking and Health 2013 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006 HQ-RIN-3985-91 Dear Mr. Banzhaf: fituWwd, pursuant to your Freedom of Information Act r+equest of May 30, 1991, ts a copy of a draft document erttitled Environmental Tobacco Smoker A Co?npendium of Techntcaf Injormation, P1we be advised that thzs document has not at this time been approved for publicatior by the partSdpating orgarnizationa and you arQ requested to take note of the admonLHon on ths draft that it should not bc cited or quoted and that it ia not itltlyded to represent EPA policies or views. lt is being trammitted to BPA's Sdence Advisory Board (SAB) with a request that they conduct an appropriate review. As you know, this do=QS'tt hu been the subject of corsidesablR contusion as a resuit of the fact that it has beet't written solely by ir4vidual authors with the expectation that it would represent only the opirtitons and rlews of the individtuls who partfcipzted. It was never intended to be representative of 8PApolides and views, or those of the other partkipating organizAtiorv, but sin,ply to connp4ls iaformatjon on the statE of knowledgi in several areas of scienti8c int+arest on the fasue of enviro=antai tobacco salok* (ETS), In particular, tt Is important to not* that the chapter revtewing the literature on heart disease written by Stan G1antz and WtiSi~am Parmley, a vartation oP which was publlahed in January 1991 ir CirculatioK, the journal of the American Heart Assoc!$tion, contairu mttterial not endonud by SPA. EPA has not undertakert ita owtt review of the heart diaeaas literature nor that of the literature reLating ET5 to cancer at sitee other than the lung. EPA Fiai wulertalcen a formal assessment of the Iunt cancer risk assodated with exposure to enviranounta2 tobacco sawke as well as an assessment of the rtsplntory eff" in ctlildrsn. In additloA, tbe Abe.=y is deve3oping 3PSde to development of affiective smoking poZidea. 5oth of these docuasent,s are intardW to reptesent offk3ttl Agency positiorti W views, and have undergmw a si,Sriifkasstiy d3fftr4rt process of devdopaw nt and review than haa the draft technica.t compertid9um beir4 rtkased todAy. The SAB conducted a revtew of thdse dccuawta In Uecember 1990, utid subuzitted 1ts report to the EPA Admin4tralor In April 1991. The Agenoy ie currtntly malcing revisiCns to the two do=ents in resporde to the pubik arrd SAB con,anestb »Mved, and dow not anticipate completing work on them until thw mi of the calendar year. ft ,~W A.wawr rV.i

John p. Barzhaf III Page 2 Aiso Qrsclosed for your lnEorawtion i,s a l3st of those lndividuaLs and organizations who were asked, dur0g a tlmited peer review of the draft compettdiunm more than a year ago, to review either portior,s or all of the documento You will note that although the tobacco itsdustry was provided with an opportunity to conunertt on the draft document, that the draft was a.Lso circulated to a numtxr of individuals as3d organizatiortis who could fairly be characterized as holding an alternative point of view. At no time during the development of any of EPA'e documenta related to envirortmental tobacco smoke haa the tobacco industry r.caivQd drafts or other Wom%ation for review which was not also been s3multaneously provtded to other organizations with an interest fr the isaue. Due to ASH's non-proAt status, there u no fes for the enciosed draft docuznemt. Sincerely, Aob*rt Axalrad, Direc'tor Indoot Air Division Ofike of Aknospheric " Indoot Air Frorsaw EnClosure