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Whether your job is as ornate as the famed Carson Mansion in Eureka, Ca., or as plain as a dog house, we have the experience and facilities to provide you with the unusual and uncommon in lumber, moulding and millwork items, as well as the ordinary, in any Quantity you need. If we don't have it, we can make it. Just ask. A In Redwood, Union Forest Products has MS and pattern lumber, architectural patterns; mouldings, mixed loads and units available LTL, TGpT and rail. A Also please inc[uire on clear Douglas Fir and Hardrvoods.

Treaters React to EPA Ruling

The Environmental Protection Agency's new restrictions on the major wood preserving chemicals, pentachlorophenol, creosote and inorganic arsenicals, appears to have little negative effect on the pressure treating industry.

The greatest impact of the decision will be felt by the retailer who will no longer be able to sell over-the-counter wood preserving chemicals for consumer use.

Use of the three chemicals will not be banned. but will be restricted to certified applicators or to persons working under their direct supervision.

In addition, the regulations will require protective clothing and, in some cases, respirators to be worn by those applying preservatives or handling freshly treated wood.

Pentachlorophenol manufacturers will be asked to reduce concentrations of HxCDD dioxin to 15 parts per million immediately and to one part per million within 18 months.

A consumer awareness program spelling out hazards of improper use and listing conditions for use of treated wood inside homes and commercial buildings will be required as part of the decision. Manufacturers will be responsible for providing retailers with consumer information sheets.

While coatings will be required to prevent skin contact with chemicals in some uses of wood treated with penta, no coatings will be required on millwork, moulding, plenums and permanent wood foundations.

Although it is expected that rhe banned chemicals will be removed from retail stores, most retailers appear to agree with the W. R. Grace Co, home center division spokesperson who said "It's too early at this point to know what effect it will have. We've had no chance to read the 400 page document detailing the regulations."

Charles Thomas, president, American Wood Preservers Bureau, Arlington, Va., commented that although penta was hit hard, the pressure treating industry came out "pretty good." He feels positive about the action as do most of the industry association executives. The American Wood Preservers Institute, Society of American Wood Preservers, Inc. and the National Forest Product Association proposed in February, 1983, many of the aspects included in the EPA decision including the implementation of a new consumer awareness program.

The Society of American Wood Preservers, Inc., Arlington, Va., is reviewing the new rules in detail, but their first impression is that "the news for the arsenical wood preservatives is great." Dave Lewis, director of governmental affairs, commented that the recommendations for handling were "good requirements" for working with any type of wood.

There's "on the whole not a lot to complain about" was the reaction of a Koppers Co. spokesman. His company, which already conducts consumer education progr€rms, produces Wolman preservatives of the CCA type, not affected by the ruling.

J. Warren Sullivan, Southern Pressure Treater Association, Shreveport, La., felt that with the exception of lowerering the dioxin content the rulings would have little effect 'on his members who are all certified applicators.

Unless there are challenges to the regulations, which would have the effect of staying them while administrative hearings were conducted, they will go into effect on February I, 1985. It was the EPA suspicion that some of the chemicals might cause cancer that triggered the EpA decision.

Berger & Company, an international commodities trading organization with 14 offices in ten countries, is proud to announce the opening of a new office in Sacramento, California to deal in

Western Softwoods. Ag;ricuttural Wood Products, PlSnuood, Particleboard

Bill Hanrahan, Jim Haas, Bob Glatt, division mgr.

We are also pleased to be a West Coast area distributor for CF&I steel products as well.

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