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STATEMENT OF MURL MILLER 

 OF THE 

 EVERETT MILLS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE 



MR. MILLER; Mr. Chairman and Conferees. 



I am Murl Miller, Senior Process Engineer 

 for Scott Paper Company, Everett, Washington. In this 

 capacity I devote my time exclusively to the technical 

 aspects of our operation related to water and air. 



I am here today in the capacity of Chairman 

 of the Everett Mills Technical Committee. This committee 

 is composed of representatives of the technical staffs 

 of Scott Paper Company, Simpson-Lee Paper Company and 

 Weyerhaeuser Company's Kraft and Sulfite Mills in Everett. 

 Its function is to provide a regular monitoring program 

 of the local waters and conduct or sponsor research projects 

 which characterize these waters and determine the effect, 

 if any, of the discharge of pulping wastes upon the biota 

 of the area . 



Members of the Everett Mills Technical 

 Committee have carefully examined the published results 

 of the Federal-State study entitled "Pollutionril Effects 

 of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastes in Puget Sound, March 1967". 

 In relation to the Everett area basic data collected in 

 this work for the most part serves to reinforce our past 

 and present contentions that the waters in general are in 



