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At Its average cutting rates under KPC's current contract, extended 1 5 years beyond 2004 to the 

 year 2019, the 23 years of timber that would be cut would equal 3.7 billion board feet. Honker 

 Divide, Cleveland Peninsula, Port Houghton, East Kuiu, Poison Cove, and other 

 magnificent Tongass wildlands are all scheduled for cutting by KPC. The Forest Service will 

 continue to be unable to protect subsistence areas, threatening the way of life of Alaska Natives 

 and other rural residents The agency will be unlikely to implement critical watershed analysis and 

 conservation measures recommended by the AFHA Report The agency is unlikely to take 

 additional steps to conserve huntable populations (not just "viable" ones) of Tongass wildlife 

 recommended by the Interagency Biologist Committee or the Peer Review of their Habitat 

 Conservation Area plan 



An extended KPC contract by itself will harm other Tongass dependent industries such as 

 commercial and sport fishing and tourism, by clearcutting and removing the resources they rely on 

 for their health-namely the forest As stated in the AFHA report: 



"Should freshwater habitats be degraded for long periods, salmon and steelhead stocks 

 will eventually be confi-onted simultaneously with low marine productivity and degraded 

 freshwater habitat The likely result of such double jeopardy could be high, long-term risk 

 of extinction The overall risk to Southeast Alaska fisheries and the people who depend 

 on them is determined in part by the total number of watersheds degraded "* 



A contract "extension" would make such a result far more likely by placing contract requirements 

 before watershed protection 



Rewardine a corporate polluter for violating the law. 



One reason KPC has a high pollution cleanup bill is because it has violated, avoided and 

 *" evaded environmental laws for so long. After failing ever to fully comply with the Clean 

 Water and Clean Air Acts, after over 445 violations of pollution laws , and after pocketing 

 the profits that came from its illegal acts, KPC is trying to force the American public to pay 

 for its cleanup. KPC is a chronic pollution law violator In addition to their criminal and civil 

 pleas last year, they have been sued for another 200 violations of the Clean Water and Clean Air 

 Acts, and have just reported exceeding pollution limits under their consent decree. (Please see 

 our May 28, 1996 written testimony at page 8, submitted to this Committee, as well as testimony 

 submitted by the Alaska Clean Water Alliance ) 



LrP Still is not coming clean with the public. (Please see our first Supplementary Statement to 

 the official record of the May 28 ad 29, 1996 hearings.) L-P's CEO, Mark Suwyn, and its 

 pollution consultant made what can only be characterized as inaccurate and misleading statements 

 about KPC pollution that indicate they are still trying to cover up or hide fi'om the public the 

 seventy of KPC's pollution problems This is unfortunate, because public health, public resources 

 , and the fijture of the Tongass are at stake This behavior should not be rewarded 



*.^FHA Report. Synthesis Report al 4 



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