Non-profit Organizations:

BANCCA.ORG, LLC
Joseph Prager, Publisher
P.O. Box 142998
Gainesville, FL 32614-2998
E-mail: mail@bancca.org

Note: We welcome your comments and feedback about this Website.

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BANCCA.ORG, LLC is the premier online reference site for consumers and end users of CCA Pressure Treated Wood. Much of the information found on this Web site is found nowhere else. We provide helpful, informative and up-to-date news about CCA Treated wood-an important environmental health issue.

While BANCCA.ORG is technically not a non-profit corporation, we have chosen to list it in this category. In fact, running this Website is expensive, so we gladly accept donations to assist us with defraying our many expenses. Your donation of any amount is greatly appreciated. These funds are used solely for the benefit of the Web site, to pay for expenses such as Web hosting services, hardware and software, records requests, legal fees, supplies, etc.

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Tell us if you've been injured by CCA:
If you have been injured by exposure to CCA Treated wood, or know someone who has been injured, and would like assistance, or would like your account posted on our "CCA Victim Reports" page, please use the form above to email us. We will keep your personal information confidential.

BEYOND PESTICIDES
The National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
701 E Street SE #200
Washington DC 20003
Phone 202-543-5450
Fax 202-543-4791
E-mail: info@beyondpesticides.org

Beyond Pesticides has been one of the primary environmental organizations calling for the outright ban of CCA, creosote, and pentachlorophenol treated wood products. They continue to press the EPA to issue an outright ban on these toxic products.

Environmental Working Group (EWG)
1718 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20009

Phone (202) 667-6982
Fax (202) 232-2592
E-mail: info@ewg.org
Web site: www.ewg.org

Healthy Building Network
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
National Office
2425 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009-2096

202-232-4108
202-332-0463 (fax)
E-mail: info@healthybuilding.net
Web site: www.healthybuilding.net

Law Firms handling CCA Tort Cases:

McCrea & McCrea
David McCrea, Atty.
PO Box 1310
Bloomington, IN 47402-1310
Phone: (812) 336-4840
E-mail: dsmccrea@bloomington.in.us

Simien & Simien LLC
Attorneys at Law
Hugh E. McNeely
8923 Bluebonnet Boulevard, Suite 200
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Phone: (225) 769-8422
Fax: (225) 769-9432
E-mail: hugh@simien.com
Website: http://www.simien.com/

Maher, Guiley & Maher, P.A.
Bryan McMinn, Atty.
631 West Morse Blvd. Ste. 200
Winter Park, FL 32789
Phone: (407) 839-0866
E-mail: toxtalk@yahoo.com

Ivey & Ragsdale
Barry Ragsdale, Atty.
P1615 Financial Center
505 North 20th Street
Birmingham, AL 35203
Phone: (205) 327-5223
Fax: (205) 327-5418
E-mail: iveyragsdale@aol.com

KANTROWITZ, GOLDHAMER & GRAIFMAN, P.C.
Gary Graifman, Esq.
Robert D. Wilkins, Esq.
747 Chestnut Ridge Road
Chestnut Ridge, New York 10977-6216
Direct: (845) 356-2570
Toll Free: 800-660-7843
Fax: (845) 356-4045
E-mail: kgg@kgglaw.com
Website:http://www.kgglaw.com/investor/cca.html

Retail Lumber Stores:

The Home Depot
Attention: Consumer Affairs
2455 Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30339

1-800-553-3199 (Consumer affairs)
1-800-430-3376 (Home Depot.com)
or 770-433-8211 (corporate office)

Lowes
Customer Care (ICS7)
P.O. Box 1111
North Wilkesboro, NC 28656

1-800-44LOWES (Customer care)
1 336 658-4000 (corporate)
1 336 658-4766 (corporate fax)
E-mail: wecare@lowes.com

Government Agencies:

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Mrs. Ann Brown, Chairperson
Washington, DC 20207-0001

1-800-638-2772

Log your CCA comments online:
https://www.cpsc.gov/incident.html

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Frank Sanders, Director
Antimicrobial Division (7510C)
Office of Pesticide Programs / EPA 1200 USEPA Headquarters
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20460

703-308-6411
E-mail: sanders.frank@epa.gov

Note: The EPA welcomes your comments. It is also important to notify the EPA if you believe that you have been injured by exposure to CCA treated wood.

U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida)
Office of the Honorable Bill Nelson
c/o Ms. Bridget Walsh
Office of the Honorable Bill Nelson
716 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510-0905

202-224-5274
202-228-2183
E-mail: bill_nelson@billnelson.senate.gov

Note: In the past 2 years, Senator Bill Nelson has pursued legislation calling for mandatory CCA warning labels and calling on the EPA to review CCA treated wood products.

Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Mr. John M. Ruddell, Director
3900 Commonwealth Blvd. TT-425B
Tallahassee, FL 32399-3000

Florida Center for Solid and
Hazardous Waste Management

John Schert, Executive Director
2207-D NW 13th Street
Gainesville, FL 32609
Phone: (352) 392-6264
Fax: (352) 846-0183
E-mail: center@floridacenter.org
Website:http://www.ccaresearch.org/

Timothy Townsend, Ph.D, Professor
Dept.of Environ.Engrg.Science, Solid & Haz.Waste Prgrm.
P.O. Box 11650, 116 A.P. Black Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611-6450
Phone: (352) 392-0846
E-mail: ttown@eng.ufl.edu

Helena Solo-Gabriele, Ph.D, P.E.
McArthur Engineering Building, Room 325
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248294
Coral Gables, FL 33124-0620
Phone: (305) 284-3489
E-mail: hmsolo@miami.edu

Wood Treatment Industry:

American Wood Preservers Institute
12100 SUNSET HILLS ROAD, SUITE 130
RESTON, VIRGINIA 20190

TEL: (800) 356-AWPI / (703) 204-0500
FAX: (703) 204-4610

E-mail: info@preservedwood.com