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 produces no significant adverse effects on the marine 

 life of the area. 



Today we recover and produce annually about 

 four million gallons of industrial alcohol and in excess 

 of 50,000 tons of lignin chemicals from our waste materials. 

 This represents a total removal and economic use of 

 approximately 95,000 tons of solids which would otherwise 

 have been discharged into our receiving waters. As a 

 result of our waste utilization through our by-product 

 research and development program, the waste equivalent of 

 our 500-ton pulp mill has been reduced by about 50 percent 

 as measured by total solids discharged or the biological 

 oxygen demand of the effluent. 



If continued improvement and expansion in 

 the utilization of our waste material is to be achieved, 

 we must continue to expend large sums for basic research. 

 However, such heavy research expenditures cannot be jus- 

 tified or undertaken if we are forced to implement systems 

 for waste disposal which are not compatible with continued 

 by-product production. 



In conclusion, it is our considered judg- 

 ment that an unbiased scientific evaluation of all the 

 data on the waters under consideration, including data 

 of the FWPCA, of independent investigators and of our own 



