Weyerhaeuser Company's - Project XL, 1997 Minimum Effluent Mills Symposium Proceedings

Weyerhaeuser’s Flint River facility is the first forest products facility accepted into EPA’s Project XL Program. The Final Progress Agreement (FPA) was signed on January 17, 1997. Since then, Weyerhaeuser’s Flint River Operations has been diligently working on: l Implementation of the Minimum Impact Manufacturing (MIM) Phase IV projects l Beginning investigations into certain feasibility studies of the MIM Phase V projects; and l Jointly working with Stakeholders and FPA Signatories to incorporate the FPA agreement terms into the facility’s environmental permits. Presently, Flint River Operation’s environmental performance through June ‘97 has been equal to or better than the MIM Phase IV FPA performance goals. Through the XL project, Flint River will work toward specific pollution-reduction goals, helping to make progress toward “closed loop” operations that pass the tests of customer satisfaction and technical and economic feasibility.