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D Evan van Hook

115

Tabor

Road

973-455-4132

Corporate Vice President

Morris

Plains, NJ

Evan.vanhook@honeywell.com

HSEPS

www.honeywell.com

February

5

2016

Howard Zucker,

M D

Commissioner

ew York

State

Department

of Health

Corning

Tower

Empire

State

Plaza

Albany,

NY 12237

Sent

via email: howard.zucker@health.ny.gov

Dear

Dr Zucker:

Honeywell would

like to meet

with

you

as

soon

as possible

to offer

our

assistance

for a

program

for

private

wells in the

Town

of

Hoosick

and the

Village

of Hoosick Falls

that

complements the testing

being

offered

by

public

agencies

and the

work

being done

by

Saint-Gobain

Performance

Products.

A

meeting

in Albany

early next week would

be

ideal.

We have

engaged

ERM a well-recognized

environmental

consulting

firm with

considerable

expertise

at sites where pertluorooctanoic

acid

PFOA

is the

primary

contaminant

of

concern.

Late last year,

Honeywell

learned

of

the discovery

of

PFOA

in

the

illage

of Hoosick

Falls public

water

supply. We

understand that

Saint-Gobain

has

been

supplying bottled

water

to

potentially

affected

residents and

is working

with

state and

local

governments

to

install

upgrades

to

the drinking water treatment

system.

Honeywell is doing

a

review

to understand

the historic

operations

by our

predecessor,

AlliedSignal

Laminated

Systems Inc which

operated

in

Hoosick Falls between

1986

and

1996. We

have

met

with

Saint-Gobain

and

also spoken

to

counsel

for the

Healthy

Hoosick Water

group,

and

your

General

Counsel

Richard

J.

Zahnleuter.

Our initial

review

indicates

that our

predecessor, AlliedSignal

Laminated

Systems,

operated

processing facilities at locations

in

or

around,

Hoosick

Falls.

After

selling

the

business in

1996,

AlliedSignal

Laminated

Systems

conducted

several

site

investigations

and received

No

Further

Action letters

from

the

ew

York State Department

of

Environmental Conservation.

Regulations

did not require testing

for

PFOA

at

the

time.

Of

course,

we

recognize

that a

voluntary program

to address

the private wells

is

a

first

step

and

that

further investigations

into

the

presence

of

PFOA and

additional

remedial

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Howard

Zucker

M D

February

5

2016

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actions

may

be required Bu t

this should

not delay

the

immediate

actions

that

we

can

take now to

secure

the water

supply

of residents

who

rely

upon private wells

We would like

to arrange a

meeting

as

soon

as

schedules

can

be

arranged to

discuss

how

best

to proceed Thank

you

Sincerely

D

E

n van Hook

Corporate

Vice

President

Health Safety Environment

Product

Stewardship

and

Sustainability

Richard

J

Zahnleuter

General Counsel

Division

of Legal Affairs