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ROBERT I. THIEME 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: Thank you. That will be 

 included in the record. 



(The chart referred to follows on page 34la.) 



MR. THIEME: Here we have a situation where 

 a cost of a hundred million dollars produced benefits of 

 a hundred fifteen million. The cost of a hundred thirty- 

 five, up thirty-five million, the benefits Improve only 

 ten million. You go up another hundred million, the 

 benefits only improve ten million, and you go up another 

 two hundred fifty-five million and the benefits only 

 improve twenty million. As shown on this curve, tre- 

 mendous increases in cost, only incremental improvement 

 in benefits. I submit that this is probably the kind of 

 thing that must be developed and actually was a commitment 

 of this whole project to be done. 



Turning to our specific situation, Scott 

 Paper Company has mills in two of the study areas, 

 Anacortes and Everett. Our Anacortes mill, we constructed 

 in 1952 a pipeline to carry spent sulfite liquor into 

 Guemes Channel. This body of water is recognized by the 

 report to be "nearly ideal for waste disposal". Page 231. 

 The report states at this location our "mill wastes are so 

 rapidly dispersed that they have a significant effect on 

 water quality only in the vicinity of the discharge". 



