Special Report No. 74-01: A Survey of Pulp and Paper Industry Environmental Protection Expenditures and Operating Costs – 1973

During 1974 the National Council conducted the annual survey of environmental protection expenditures in the pulp and paper industry. This survey, which is part of a continuing program, is the fifth of such surveys conducted. The first was published in 1965 and the last reported expenditures made through 1972 and those planned through 1975. This survey covers the year 1973 with planned environmental protection expenditures for the years 1974 through 1976. This survey, like the last, requested information at the corporate level on the capital expenditures for environmental protection in the primary manufacturing sector of pulp, paper, and paperboard manufacture in the United States for the three major areas of concern, water quality protection, air quality protection and disposal of solid waste generated at the mill site by manufacturing and waste treatment activities. The present survey, presented in summary form in this report identifies the capital expenditures in 1973 and planned from 1974 through 1976 for air and water quality protection and disposal of mill site generated solid waste. Information on amortization, tax relief and tax exempt bond financing for these activities is also included. The fixed costs (depreciation, interest and taxes) for pollution abatement facilities installed during and prior to 1973 corporate administrative costs for environmental protection not charged to individual mill operations, and the cost of company-conducted or directly supported environmental protection research are a part of this report. The operating cost information for environmental protection facilities, and administrative cost of environmental protection at the mill level was taken from information obtained at the mill level in a similar survey-Pulp and Paper Industry Survey of Environmental Protection Operating Cost and Accomplishment Survey - 1972.