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cc:Mail for: Representative Caren Robinson 



Subject: KPC extension 



From: aksKit1©alaska net (Alaska Skitt Charters) at CC2MHS1 04/03/96 7 19 PM 

 To: Representative Caren Robinson at JNU_CAPITOL 



Caren, 



You have our full support in preventing the extension of Ketchikan Pulp 

 Cottpany's 50 year contract. We believe KPC should not be allowed to do 

 business today if it cannot meet current %rater and air quality staindards and 

 the goveminent should not subsidize it any longer at the expense of other 

 Tongass users. 



They state they need the extension in order to amortize facility upgrading 

 to tneet water and air quality standards. This is a joke. ! Their parent 

 conpany, Louisiana Pacific had the laurgest return on its assets in the 

 timber industry in the world in 1993 and 1994. KPC is a convicted felon and 

 should not be rewarded. 



The contract must end so the Tongass can be managed on a true multiple use 

 basis. If KPC wants to continue doing business, then they should conduct 

 business within the confines of the marketplace and coirpete alongside 

 independent loggers of the Tongass. 



We feel am extension will be harmful to our business in the sense of 

 additional logging effects on salmon streams throughout Southeast. Although 

 KPC is not logging watersheds euround our fishing area, the inpact they have 



■ the Southeast stocks has a very direct effect. That being loss of 

 -■abitat leading to less healthy runs and possible shifting of the fishing 

 fleet to our fishing grounds. 



Please vote NO on the resolution extending KPC's timber contract. 



Xbaak you 



^acheIS• aM llark Kaelte 



Alaska Skiff Charters 



3718 El Camino 



Juneau, AK 99801 



MK 



