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• Training: requires extensive training in environmental compliance, ethics, and 

 management practices 



Ketchikan Pulp Company is currently on schedule to satisfy all requirements of the 

 criminal, civil and administrative proceedings described in the previous paragraphs. 



Future Wastewater Management 



Ketchikan Pulp Company has planned for several years to relocate the discharge outfall to 

 Tongass Narrows. EPA has issued a draft NPDES permit for the new location This 

 extended outfall is designed to provide improved dispersion of KPC's discharge and to 

 reduce the impact of mill operation on Ward Cove, which is currently listed as an impaired 

 water body and has a Total Maximum Daily Limit (TMDL) for Biochemical Oxygen 

 Demand (BOD) The permit must be certified by the State of Alaska under Section 401 of 

 the Clean Water Act. The purpose of the State certification is to assure that the discharge 

 will meet all State Water Quality Standards In the past, discharge permits were 

 technology-based so KPC is now taking a giant step to meeting water quality standards in 

 the receiving waters Standards are designed to protect water use and establish 

 parameters and controls for fecal coliform bacteria, dissolved gas, pH, turbidity, 

 temperature, dissolved inorganic substances, sediment loads, toxics and other deleterious 

 organic substances, color, petroleum hydrocarbons, oils and grease, radioactivity, total 

 residual chlorine, and whole effluent toxicity. State water quality regulations contain 

 provisions (under very strict guidance) for a mixing zone in which water quality standards 

 may be exceeded. This permit, once certified, will be in effect for five years 



ADEC has requested comprehensive technical and analytical information to support this 

 new outfall describe how its discharge will affect water quality in Tongass Narrows KPC 

 and ADEC are working cooperatively with EPA to finish this certification and have set a 

 schedule which contemplates certification in early 1997 



Information provided to ADEC by KPC includes Human Health and Ecological Risk 

 assessments of the impact of the new outfall to Tongass Narrows (2 versions), a baseline 

 biological study of the new Tongass Narrows outfall location (2 versions), a baseline 

 sediment study of the new Tongass Narrows outfall location (2 versions), Tongass 

 Narrows outfall design and oceanographic conditions (2 versions), as well as responses to 

 90 specific questions generated by ADEC 



The Tongass Narrows permit is essentially the same as the current Ward Cove permit 

 (AK-000092-2). Water column and sediment monitoring will be expanded to include 

 coverage of Tongass Narrows. The State certification of the Tongass Narrows permit is 

 planned to include a mixing zone. The Ward Cove permit was issued without a mixing 

 zone because of a decision made by the State not to certify it under Section 401, but to 

 concentrate on certification of the Tongass Narrows discharge 



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