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is not a Superfund facility at this time. However, the survey that 

 was done in 1991 showed that they had a high enough ranking to 

 be considered for Superfund. At the point when the numerical 

 ranking is completed, it becomes a question that is brought to a 

 committee that brings in other factors, some of them political, as 

 to whether or not a site will actually be listed as a Superfund site. 



With respect to the talks of Substance Control Act, there were 

 two PCB inspections in 1988 and in 1993. EPA complaints were is- 

 sued as a result of each inspection. 



With regard to the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, there 

 have been four State inspections in the past ten years, in '88, '91, 

 '93 and '94. All have documented numerous violations. 



With respect to the State solid waste regulations, there have 

 been four State inspections in '87, '90, '95 and '96. Three resulted 

 in notices of violations. 



According to the Rivers and Harbors Act, in 1993 the Army 

 Corps of Engineers issued a notice of noncompliance. They found 

 that KPC knowingly violated the permit conditions by significantly 

 exceeding authorized dredge amounts and failing to submit water 

 quality reports. 



With regards to State water quality standards, they have been 

 exceeded at least 94 times in the last year for color, chronic tox- 

 icity, manganese, copper, sulphur, residual chlorine and oil and 

 grease. For the Clean Water Act, in 1994 there were unpermitted 

 discharges of pollutants that occurred 19 times, totaling over a mil- 

 lion gallons. Requirements for pH, fecal coliform, biological oxygen 

 demand and total suspended solids are exceeded regularly. Ward 

 Cove is on the State's list of impaired water bodies for accumula- 

 tion of sediment, dissolved oxygen violations, color violations and 

 elevated levels of toxic compounds. 



With regards to the Clean Air Act, there was a statement made 

 in the hearing in Juneau a month ago; Senator Murkowski asked 

 Mr. Sowyn, the CEO for Louisiana Pacific, to try to identify the 

 contents of a vapor from some photographs, not unlike this photo- 

 graph here, sir, that were taken of the mill site. And his reply was 

 that the air emissions were steam. Well, in 1995 Ketchikan Pulp 

 Company admitted emitting 25 million pounds of air pollutants. 

 This included the following: sulfur dioxide, 8,100,000 pounds; sul- 

 furic acid, 120,800 pounds; sulfur trioxide, 210,000 pounds; total re- 

 duced sulfur, 9 million pounds; formaldehyde, 11,000 pounds; hy- 

 drochloric acid, 569,000 pounds; chloroform, 68,000 pounds. 



The Chairman. Mr. Cohen. 



Mr. Cohen. And I could go on, sir. 



The Chairman. That's already in the record as part of your testi- 

 mony. I've read it. 



Mr. Cohen. OK. 



The Chairman. You are out of time. 



Mr. Cohen. Can I make a closing statement, sir? 



The Chairman. You can make a closing statement. 



Mr. Cohen. Thank you. I would like to say that ACWA does not 

 work, sir, on timber allocation issues, and we would defer to other 

 individuals or organizations on such matters. However, we could 

 not begin to consider supporting extensions to the timber contract 

 unless four conditions were met. Number one, suspension of KPC's 



