377 

 ROGER TOLLEFSON 

 Supervisor for the Olympic Research Division of Rayonier , 

 Inc., at Shelton, Washington, on matters of receiving 

 water quality. I am appearing today on behalf of the Port 

 Angeles Division of Rayonier. 



It has been noted in this Conference that 

 Rayonier operates a sulfite pulp mill at Port Angeles and 

 discharges process wastes into the waters of that harbor. 

 This is correct. 



It has been noted that the Federal Water 

 Pollution Control Administration conducted certain limited 

 studies in this harbor in the course of a four-year 

 period from 1962 into 1966, as presented in the report 

 under discussion here today. 



In reading this Federal report, and in 

 the course of the proceedings of this Conference, we have 

 read and heard the contentions of, "serious water quality 

 degradation, probable damage", and so forth, with which 

 contentions we cannot agree. These contentions are 

 refuted by the results of all other studies that have 

 been made of the area, which studies have consistently 

 shown extremely abundant marine life within Port Angeles 

 Harbor. We have studied and analyzed this Federal report 

 and the data offered in support of it in an attempt to 

 reconcile these contradictions. No such reconciliation 



