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that have to be spent that in the long range this may be 

 the best thing that we can all do for our own self interest 

 as well as the national interest to move ahead with the 

 pr ob letn , 



For example, in the Great Lakes, the big 

 industries there are the petroleum industry, the petro- 

 chemical industry, and the steel industry. I think both 

 of these industries recognize that the preservation of 

 the Great Lakes as a natural water resource is essential 

 to the maintenance of the industry, and these private 

 firms have spent the money to do the- job. 



I do think in the same way here, there is 

 no industry more dependent upon the clean water in their 

 product than the pulp and paper industry. As much as 

 timber or any of the other products you have, water is 

 your essential raw material. And I think the interest 

 of the industry does not differ from the interests of the 

 fishery people, of the water pollution control people, I 

 might say even shellfish or oyster or fishery people or 

 the municipal people or the people here who want to use 

 this as a recreational resource. We all have the same 

 objective, and if we regard water as a natural resource 

 and a raw product in the industry the same as we regard 

 timber or labor or power, I think we will be far ahead. 



I was at a meeting of the pulp and Paper 



