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to continue to be used as dumping grounds for pullutants. 

 One area, the Puyallup River estuary now classed as B 

 is to be advanced to Class A. 



In the Puyallup River estuary from the mouth 

 to one mile up river, it is already known to have pulp 

 mill pollution equivalent to the untreated raw sewage 

 (B.O.D.) of about 300,000 people. There is no indication 

 at present that anything is to be done to clean up the 

 pulp mill pollution problem now existing in the river 

 estuary. What is the status of their permit? 



The kind of standards that will allow con- 

 tinued dumping of pollutants from whatever source, 

 especially from the large industrial sources will have to 

 be rejected. 



Legislation enacted by the recently ad- 

 journed Washington state legislature apparently eliminated 

 the "trial de-novo" provision in the old pullution control 

 law by the passage of H. B. 179. 



The trial de-novo aspect was quietly restored 

 in an innocuous substitute Senate Bill 52. 



An attached copy of that story is told in 

 Argus of March 24, 1967. 



It was reported that a long and acrimonious 

 debate over the House Amendment was carried on in the 

 Senate on the last day of the regular session, but the 



