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EDWARD J. GRUBLE 



original liquor. Other by-products developed and manu- 

 factured by the company using components of sulfite waste 

 liquor have obviously failed to significantly reduce 

 the effects of the waste discharges on the marine biota 

 as evidenced by the information gathered by the joint 

 study. Expansion of this program as a means of resolving 

 the mill's pollution problem though commendable can 

 hardly be regarded as a rapid and adequate solution. 

 Testimony of Mr. E. Gray King, Research Director for the 

 mill, presented to the State Pollution Control Commission 

 on March 12, 1958, asserted, "about seven years are required 

 for the conception of the idea to final successful com- 

 mercial acceptance of the product." We have been waiting 

 for some 22 years with little evidence that this approach 

 to pollution abatement has alleviated the pollution problem 

 created by this mill. 



Also of significance in any future State 

 effort to abate pollution is passage during the 1957 

 State Legislature of Substitute Senate Bill 52 which 

 amended the Administration Act and contained an amendment 

 to that act which would provide that during court review 

 of agency findings the reviewing court may set aside such 

 findings which are clearly erroneous in view of the entire 

 record as submitted "and the public policy contained in 



