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1 BOB 0. BOWER 



2 represented by anyone here--and the shellfish Industry. 



3 They don't grow oysters up there, just clams. Since 19^8 



4 those clam beds have been repeatedly closed, closed, 



5 closed, until now they are all closed. 



6 Again, what we have done is put forth 



7 effort. We were successful in getting the representatives 



8 of the clam Industry and representatives of the pulp and 



9 paper group to sit down together and try to work out the 



10 problem. In that instance, they are still in the nego- 



11 tiation stage, but I think we are very, very close. 



12 Besides primary treatment, we are talking in terms there 



13 of about an 85 percent reduction in the sulfite waste liquor, 



14 give and take a little, and this is how close we are. 



15 But the point is--and experience has 



16 shown--that unless the oyster industry makes a step 



17 to try to put themselves perhaps in the role of the 



18 pulp and paper Industry in the same way as we have 



19 with the others to get together, I don't think under 



20 our system we can work out a solution without going to 



21 court or going to the mat. Again, my experience has 



22 been that a solution which is acceptable to the various 



23 parties and various interests in the use of a water resource 



24 is not impossible and can be worked out if we put our minds 



25 to it. We have to be aware what any industry 



