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1 <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />t <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />195 <br />1 MR. SMITH: I'm sorry. would it be <br />2 better if I stood? Is that okay? <br />3 (Inaudible.) <br />4 MR. SMITH: I have 15 to 20 years' <br />5 experience in geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry and <br />6 waste disposal. I've served as a government officer <br />7 reviewing permits for hazardous and toxic :.iquid <br />8 waste sites. <br />9 I have lectured at universities. I've <br />10 been a consultant in a consulting practice as chief <br />11 executive officer and president. I'm now a private <br />12 consultant. <br />13 I would like to address, I think, three <br />14 specific issues that have been raised -- perhaps <br />15 four. The first one I think I've already Partially <br />16 addressed and that was the issue of the residual <br />17 free cyanide levels in the tailings on discharge. <br />18 The maximum level of free cyanide <br />19 tailings is expected to be 3.8 PPM, and that's <br />20 assuming all the free cyanide reports as <br />21 (inaudible). <br />22 If there is any cyanide, the free <br />23 cyanide number will be less than that. That doesn't <br />24 account for any degradation within the discharge <br />25 system or on the tailings impoundment, so that <br />AGREN, BLANDO S BILLINGS <br />