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A SENATOR'S VIEWS

Mr. Dave Cutler

The Merchant Magazine

4500 Campus Drive, Suite 476 Newport Beach, Cal. 92660

Dear Mr. Cutler:

Thank you for sending me your editorial, 'The Horror of Cancer," which appeared in The Merchant Magazine (Nov. p. 6).

I agree with you that this is an intolerable situation. It really is amazing that OSHA sees fit to ignore a problem such as this while being active in other areas. I can appreciate your dismay at the seeming lack of attention from OSHA, and believe it should be rewritten thoroughly. I would like the program rewritten to enable the business community and the OSHA Administration to work together to protect the health and safety of working Americans while not destroying small business with overly burdensome regulations. High-priced agencies such as OSHA must be restrained in their responsibilities so that reasonable costs of operation can be maintained.

If you deem it necessary, please call on me further so that I might contact OSHA directly for attention to this matter.

I thank you for bringing this to mY attention, and hope you will continue to do so. Thank you for writing. Sincerely yours,

S. I. Hayakawa United States Senator United States Senate

Washington, D.C.20510

PHONY SCARES

Dear Sirs: Your editorial about the possibility of woodworkers getting can- cer from being around wood dust sounds to me like another one of those phony cancer scares that appear almost daily.

It seems like everytime some halfbaked research group kills a bunch of test rats in a laboratory. it automatically means that we're all going to drop dead of cancer. Maybe these test tube doctors should get with it and stop scaring us all half to death.

The press should show more restraint in publishing these kinds of "facts" until it has more information to back up the so-called findings. Respectfully,

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Section 504 low income rehabilitation loan and grant prograrn, and Section 516 assistance program.

(F) Government National Mortgage Assn.

. GNMA standby authority extended for one year. Amends GNMA's authority to tinance acquisition and/or rehabilitation of housing in older or declinins neigh horhoods.

. Raises basic lirnit on mortgage amount for loans which rnav be purchased by (;NMA iro$42,000 to S4c),000 per unit.

(G) Flood Insurance

The authority to offer I'lood insurance under both the resu- lar program and the.nr*rg*n-.y program rs extended throueh September 30, I 978.

$ 108 million is authorized for fiscal 1978 for flood insurance mapping and rate studies.

. Federally related lending institutions are now permitted to make loans secured by real property located in the nonparticipating community special flood hazard area. Howevei. the lender nrust notify borrower whether flood disaster assistance will be available in the event of a flood. It prohibits federal finance assistance in those areas following a flood.

Additional coverage for residence property, dwelling contents and small business property will be made available.