Flintkote Company, 1101 South Front Street, Camden, New Jersey
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EPA
Region		 Location of facility Type of facility Amount
of ore
received
(in tons)		 Did
EPA
visit
the
site?		 Were
samples
taken?		 Results of
evaluation
2 1101 South Front Street, Camden, New Jersey Building products 102 Yes-June 9, 2000 No According to an EPA database compiled from W.R. Grace shipping invoices, 102 tons of vermiculite ore from the Libby mine were shipped to this site in 1967. This property is located in an industrial area of Camden, New Jersey and borders the Delaware River. In 1962, Flintkote purchased the property and constructed a plaster and wallboard manufacturing facility. In 1982, Flintkote sold the property to the company Genstar, which continued to operate the same type of business. The company Domtar acquired the gypsum assets of Genstar in 1987. In April 1996, Georgia Pacific bought the gypsum assets of Domtar and continued to produce gypsum wallboard, primarily, at the facility. According to the information that EPA collected when it inspected the plant in June 2000, 2 percent of Georgia Pacific's overall production at this plant consisted of fireproof wallboard containing vermiculite. At that time, Georgia Pacific provided documentation indicating that the vermiculite the company used was from a W.R. Grace mine located in Enoree, South Carolina (the Enoree site is listed separately in this database). The Georgia Pacific plant manager told EPA that he did not know what manufacturing process Flintkote used or whether that company had used vermiculite in their operation. In March 2005, EPA sent a letter of referral to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requesting that OSHA inspect this facility to ensure that worker health and safety were not being compromised from handling the vermiculite materials received from the mine in Enoree. In April 2005, OSHA responded that the facility no longer manufactured the wall product that contained vermiculite and that the company did not receive vermiculite from the Libby, Montana, mine. On the basis of OSHA’s response and the information gathered during EPA’s investigation—including that a relatively small amount of Libby ore was received by this site and that the last shipment of Libby ore had likely occurred in 1967—EPA determined that no further action was needed.

GAO-09-6R