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Minnesota. They hope to have this ready to go just shortly after the 

 first of the year. I don't know if Mr. Thomas has seen it. 



Mr. Penny. I don't know if Mr. Thomas has seen it. I have sev- 

 eral samples in my office, so any legislator that has stopped by has 

 seen it, but I don't think Mr. Thomas has. 



Mr. Thomas of Wyoming. If it is not made in Wyoming, I 

 haven't. 



Mr. Penny. That is soybeans and newspapers. 



Mr. O'CONNELL. The next one I want to show is a project we 

 worked with, an individual in Washington: International Lubri- 

 cants. This lubricating oil is made from vegetable oil, canola, 

 rapeseed, or crambe. Most people indicate that oil and water don't 

 mix. However, when it has an emulsifier in it, it will mix, and let 

 me put this in this little glass of water and you can see this. This 

 will break up like this here and will stay like this. 



You may wonder why is this so important? Well, when you are 

 talking about oil for a marine environment for chain saws for a 

 whole lot of other places where we don't want oil mucking up the 

 water, if you have something that breaks up like that and then you 

 can come by with fungi and other little critters that take care of 

 these things. 



This is for cutting oil, this particular one right here, but the prin- 

 ciple can be adopted elsewhere and it is beginning to come on the 

 market. In Europe, now, they have to use vegetable oil in their 

 chain saws. Probably will be coming here. 



Gridcore, this is made out of kenaf. This is for partition projects 

 that we got out in California. This is a corrugated material. This 

 is made out of grass straw. They have a tremendous problem out 

 in Oregon with the grass seed straw. They used to be able to bum 

 it. They can't any longer and because of pollution concerns and 

 other concerns, so we are working with the State of Oregon. And 

 Weyerhaeuser has developed a material made out of this. If some- 

 body wants to take this around, you are welcome to. 



I wish I had thought of this one here. This is windshield washer 

 made from com alcohol. I know we have a need for that in Min- 

 nesota — ^windshield washer is currently made out of methanol that 

 is imported. This will be out in the winter in K-Mart and other 

 Target stores up in Minnesota. That is a small operation in St. 

 Louis. 



This is a very interesting one. The underbelly of sheep is wool 

 that goes to waste and they put in a project, and we are joining 

 with them in producing an oil absorption pad made out of this and 

 it has much more absorption than others now. This material now 

 goes to waste. Now this will be used as an absorbent. I wasn't 

 aware of this market until recently. 



OSHA requires that everyone who handles oil must find a way 

 to absorb it so the oil doesn't go into the waste stream. These are 

 just some of the projects that we are working on that have both do- 

 mestic and export potential. 



I have some fact sheets on every one of these and they are over 

 here on the table. I would be glad to put those in the record for 

 all 23 projects indicating the contribution, we require 50 percent 

 contribution by the private sector partner, and if the project is sue- 



