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WILLIAM J. DITTRICH 



Would you wish me merely to summarize it? 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: That would be helpful, if 

 you wish, and you may be assured that the Conferees will 

 fully consider your statement as written. 



Without objection, the full statement will be 

 entered into the record as if read. 



(The statement referred to appears on pages 

 422b to 422n.) 



MR. DITTRICH: We prepared the statement under 

 the assumption that: 



1. In developing policies and procedures 

 for enhancement of marine waters, it is of utmost impor- 

 tance to consider problems and practices along the entire 

 tributary watercourse and to examine alternative long- 

 range solutions to problems. 



2. That Whatcom Creek is an exceedingly 

 important tributary which by virtue of the diversion of 

 water from the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River into it 

 can be viewed as part of the Nooksack system. 



3. That problems and practices along a given 

 watercourse must be related to total area-wide water resource needs 



4. That social, political, scientific and 

 economic factors are inextricably linked in pollution 

 problems and therefore a wide range of facts need to be 



