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Toxics Release Inventory, Form R Potlatch Corporation Idaho Bureau of Hazardous Material

Chemical	Pounds/Year	Pounds/Day
Chlorine	2,000	5.5
Chlorine Dioxide	12,899	35.3
Chloroform - fugitive	35,500	97.3
Chloroform - stack	79,500	217.8
Chloroform - Snake River	1,200	3.3
Creosol	26,500	72.6
Formic Acid	34,000	93.2
Hydrochloric Acid - stack	34,000	93.2
Methanol - fugitive	17,200	47.1
Methanol - stack	684,600	1875.6
Methanol - Snake River	25,000	68.5
Phenol	610	1.7
Sulfuric Acid	32,000	87.7
Zinc - Snake River	4,200	11.5

from the hand notes of Reed Burkholder taken from Form R for Potlatch Corporation of Lewiston found at the Idaho Bureau of Hazardous Material, Gowan Field Building 600 in the basement.

Permit No.: ID-000116-3
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Authorization to Discharge Under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

In compliance with the provisions of the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C 1251 et seq., as amended by the Water Quality Act of 1987, P.L. 100-4, the "Act", Potlatch Corporation Lewiston, Idaho is authorized to discharge from a pulp, paper, and woodproducts facility located at Lewiston, Idaho, to receiving waters named the Snake and Clearwater Rivers, in accordance with discharge point(s), effluent limitations, monitoring requirements and other conditions set forth herein.

This permit shall become effective April 7, 1992.
This permit and the authorization to discharge shall expire at midnight, April 7, 1997.

E. Chlorinated Organics Control and Monitoring Program

1. Beginning no later than 60 days from the effective date of this permit, the permitee shall submit to EPA and the State a Chlorinated Organics Control Program for the Lewiston facility. The objectives of the program shall be:

1. to reduce, to the maximum extent practical, formation of 2,3,7,8-TCDD, 2,3,7,8-TCDF, and AOX in pulping and bleaching operations through process changes and process modifications
2. to reduce the discharge of 2,3,7,8-TCDD, 2,3,7,8-TCDF, and AOX through changes in wastewater treatment system operations.

Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry - TCDD 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, dioxin. A highly carcinogenic and poisonous material produced by combustion of chloroaromatics.

Related Sites:
Envirofacts Report on Potlatch Idaho Pulp & Paperboard Div.