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STATEMENT BY JOHN B. GRAY 



"For these various reasons, we can find no 

 evidence that the operation of Rayonler's mill adversely 

 affects any of the present or feasible proposed uses for 

 the waters in and adjacent to Port Angeles Harbor. Con- 

 sequently, we do not feel that adequate justification 

 exists for the "Tentative Future Waste Treatment or Control 

 Needs," indicated on Page 23 of the Information Bulletin, 

 for the Rayonier Port Angeles Division. Such facilities 

 would require a large investment and continuing operating 

 expenses, but they would not add any new use for the waters 

 or enhance any existing use. 



" As I indicated earlier, we have demonstrated 

 our willingness to make large investments to protect water 

 quality whenever there is a demonstrated needo Commencing 

 several years ago, we have invested over $8,000,000 in a 

 recovery plant at our Grays Harbor Division in Hoquiam. 

 However, the situations there and here are entirely dif- 

 ferent. The Hoquiam plant is located on the Chehalis 

 River Estuary which has limited waste assimilative capacity. 

 During low-flow periods of the river, dissolved oxygen 

 frequently reached marginal levels. To assist in safe- 

 guarding the important fish passage capability of the lower 

 river, Rayonier built the recovery plant to destroy spent 

 sulphite liquor wastes from the mill. The great waste 



