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1 R. H. BAILEY 



2 pulp mill with no treattnent. 



3 The oyster business in that area was sub- 



4 stantially injured in 1934 when this rail! had a production 



5 of 90 tons per day. Anacortes then had a production of 



6 61 tons per day or 151 tons total for both mills. 



7 To solve the North Sound pollution problem, 

 g it will be necessary for both Bellingham and Anacortes to 

 9 adopt the Weyerhaeuser or an equally efficient method 



10 of eliminating 80 percent of the sulfite waste liquor 



11 discharged. We respectfully suggest that the Washington 



12 pulp mills should be required to evaporate not 70 percent 



13 but 80 percent of the digester liquor as required by 



14 other sulfite pulp mills at Longview, Cosmopolis, Ketchikan, 



15 Sitka, and at least one pulp mill on the east coast. 



16 We also respectfully submit that the 



17 Federal Water Pollution Control Administration must-- 



18 capitalize and under line "must" — take over the enforcement 



19 of the report's recommendations set forth on Pages I to 



20 XXII. Otherwise we see no hope for the future solving of 



21 this pollution problem. We feel that the Federal Water 



22 Pollution Control Administration has a vital interest in 



23 solving this North Sound pollution problem and also in 



24 salvaging some returns from the million-and-a-half dollars 

 spent in good faith to obtain the necessary scientific 



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