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TESTIMONY BY 



Martin R. Pihl, President and General Manager 

 Ketchikan Pulp Company 



BEFORE 



The Subconmittee on Public Lands, National Parks 

 and Forests of the Energy and 

 Natural Resources Committee 

 United States Senate 



Ketchikan, Alaska 

 April 24, 1989 



Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for 

 this opportunity to testify. My name is Martin R. Pihl. I am 

 President and General Manager of Ketchikan Pulp Company (KPC) . 

 I have been a resident of Ketchikan and an employee of KPC for 

 27 years. Accompanying me today are Owen Graham, our Logging 

 Manager, and William Phillips, a partner with the law firm of 

 Hopkins, Sutter, Hamel & Park, to assist in answering any 

 questions you might have that are not covered in my prepared 

 remarks. 



Since so many erroneous statements have been made about the 

 topic, my remarks today will deal primarily with the long-term 

 contract between the United States and Ketchikan Pulp Company 

 (AlOf s-l(D42) , as currently modified. It should be made clear 

 at the outset, however, that for reasons detailed in earlier 

 testimony we respectfully oppose passage of legislation which 

 is designed to undo the 1980 ANILCA compromise, to circumvent 

 the Congressionally-mandated planning process, to lock up 

 additional land base, and to lower the harvest levels on the 



