May 31, 1999

EACH MEETING

Agreed don’t want to read before each meeting. We will control any inappropriate behaviour as it may happen. Put on website.

Approved as per last meeting with following comments:

Try to get core minutes out by end of meeting available at tour or 2 weeks after meeting. Email core only out to everyone with email. Get papers from presenters by request. Presenters email address in minutes. Post on website – attachments, too, but no scanned documents. Those who don’t have email will have to ask - no more mail-outs.

Don Olson to approach Espanola Fall 1999. Backup Dryden.

Will use one for this meeting.

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Summary of meeting or overheads to be given to Chair.

$3,206 to contribute to this meeting. Suggested $350/year per Supplier to make up for not being able to host meeting. Email notice. Don to send letter to Suppliers.

Agenda out 6 weeks before meeting. Fax RVSP back 2 weeks before Guest mill – any number. Suppliers – 2 max. unless one is Speaker with Chairman’s OK. Suppliers should be same person each time but can bring guest from East or West. Member mills – any number OK. Always with Chairman’s OK. Suppliers whose industry is already represented on cttee. are still welcome to come but they are invited as guest and must follow the usual probationary procedure.

Agreed to accept Tom McDonough’s resignation. Don has removed other inactive members: Dave Johns, (Hampshire), John Rizzi.

Membership attendance list compiled by Jim Collins. To be in minutes. Used as basis for gauging members’ participation.

Don Olson to keep membership list.

62 members total. 19% Suppliers – could have 4 more Supplier members.

Membership changes. Doug Reid has requested membership – agreed.

Probationary members – contribution. To be dropped: Dave Johns. Irene Yaraskavitch not here long enough to be member yet. Stan Heimberger to begin again as probationary member. Need written request to Chairman for membership.

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Tony Whiteside , of the chemical trade publication Harriman Chemsault, has asked to attend meetings– Don Olson will ask more questions before inviting to meeting. We want to understand whether he expects to publish Bleach Committee activities in his journal. Chris Ho – OK. Hasaan Loufti – we will allow him to be probationary member – Don Olson to follow-up. No policy to make past Chairman member or honourary member – must be active. Will get minutes if shows up to meeting.

Honourary membership. Need subcommittee to review reqs. Don, Jeff, Stuart and Jim.

Steering cttee. Sunday evening meeting instead.

Newsletter. Will not issue for now.

Will address email distribution concern. Ask the expert – worth discussing.

Bleaching course this Fall, Thunder Bay, ON. First week of October 1999.

Short course at Whistler on washing, 17 people. Positively received.

Tech. program for next meeting. Environmental impacts theme at

Espanola? Patrick Ryan, Eka Chemicals, characterizing various bleach plant streams and their environmental impact. Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon, catalysts for peroxide bleaching and environmental impacts. Also work with Subcommittee members to develop regulation in each province, current and future. 3 ½ hours. Jeff Tolan to lead tech. program, Dave Willis, Nancy Van Allen.

Dan Davies willing to be Chairman.

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Program deadline by December 3^rd. Abstracts by July 1999. Give abstract to Jean Bouchard. ECF survey will be ready for meeting but Rae thinks some of items that came out of this morning would not be ready.

Need replacement. Carlo Dal Monte will replace Murray Walters for this meeting.

Presented ECF survey today. Closed quite few projects. Will be suggesting. Fall 99 Tom Mullen, O2.

Don Olson has certificate to present Stuart Scott at Business Meeting.

May not be able to go to EB Eddy. Dryden as backup. Fall 1999.

Spring 2000. Canfor, Prince George.

Fall 2000. Dryden.

Spring 2001. Fletcher, Crofton and CFI.

See discussion re: Jeff’s suggestions. Also Rae suggests looking at more mill discussion, how control stages, Spring 2001?

Got approval from family. Has proposal to give committee.

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Doug MacKenzie wants to maximize attendance and participation of mill members. Plan to schedule two mill operations breakfasts – one on bleaching equipment and one on bleach plant operations, (any other ideas)? Doug wants Bleaching Cttee. support in setting up and co-ordinating the mill ops. breakfast. He is requesting that we: raise the request with the cttee. and ask for input re: topics, format and individuals who may wish to serve as experts on the subjects of choice.

Bleaching Rae C. to work with Doug MacKenzie to organize mill ops. breakfasts. Need abstracts at end June 1999. Dennis Owen, Stuart Scott, Chris Kanters, Brian Roy and Jim Collins to help out.

Propose to present at International Bleach Conference 2000. Also Annual meeting 2000. Need different final form for both conferences. Look at doing MidWest Annual Conf. last week Sept. and different branch meetings.

Glen Black not present.

Seems to be working.

Send our minutes only to those with email and send letter saying last set unless request.

Subcommittee size and timing discussion.

Subcommittee to deal with R & D disappearing in Canada? Dan Davies will take it up during Protocol meeting to see what could develop.

Carlo Dal Monte suggests some work re: how do people run mills – lines of progression, how many people need to run bleach plant, etc. Agreed to discuss at next meeting.