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MURL MILUER 

 ooeaningless when translated to nature. Significantly 

 higher levels of PBI than those recoramended by the Project 

 for the Everett area have been shown to have no effect 

 on English sole, even when all stages of the life cycle 

 are considered. 



The extension of laboratory evaluations 

 to implied harm to any other marine organism is at the 

 most only a tenuous assumption. Thus the sweeping 

 generalization of damage to, quote, ten species of sole, 

 six species of cod, three species of clam, anchovy, herring, 

 smelt and crabs, to mention a few of the more important, 

 unquote, is not valid. 



In addition to pursuing evaluations of 

 field conditions, the Technical Committee has requested 

 Mr. Charles Yentsch of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

 to review the Project's findings related to plankton. 

 Mr. Yentsch has described for this Conference his con- 

 clusions as they differ from those reached by the Project 

 report. His interpretation of the problems related to 

 analysis of the planktonic data led him to the following 

 conclusion: There is insufficient evidence that mill 

 influence has a significant impact on estuarine conditions 

 in the Everett area . 



We would like now to direct our attention 



