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Project Synopsis. During this period we held weekly meetings with internal project staff to discuss the progress of the project. We continued to pursue mill participation. Port ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Paper Company (PTPC) joined the project on January 11. A news release announcing this partnership was sent out on January 22. A participation letter to be signed by Ecology’s director was drafted. We held the third and fourth Mill Collaboration Meetings on December 4 and January 15. Representatives from the ▇▇▇▇▇ and Earth Economics attended. At the December 4 meeting, we discussed: • change in Earth Economics project management • milestone chart • stakeholder meetings and online survey lessons learned • next industrial sector to possibly be footprinted • indicators • footprint aggregation tool • how to measure sustainability in the pulp and paper industry • water indicator set • carbon footprint challenge • possibility of a media packet • baseline year for each mill At the January 15 meeting, we brought PTPC up to speed and discussed draft indicators collected to date. We finalized the first round of stakeholder meeting notes. Emails containing the notes from each meeting were sent to interested parties. A draft list of indicators was compiled. We updated the web page on a regular basis. The comment period for the online comment form/survey deployed to collect stakeholder input on indicators ended on November 15, 2007. The data was collected and included in the indicator development process. Media packet development is underway. We and Earth Economics concluded that the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) did not need to be updated during this quarter. We made the decision to use the carbon footprint calculation tool developed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and International Council of Forest and Products Associations (ICFPA) for the carbon footprint challenge. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ attended the EPA Symposium on Integrated Approaches for Energy, Climate, and Environment in Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 8 – 10, 2008. Topics covered included harnessing the power of performance-based programs to address climate change and energy issues, permitting for sustainability, case studies for integrated planning, moving form waste management to materials management, sustainable energy, innovative monitoring, using a sector approach to address energy and climate, biofuels, and innovative technology. Several people were interested in Ecology’s Industrial Footprint Project. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ gave a presentation on the Project to Ecology’s Toxics Reduction Engineer Exchange (TREE) Team. The shifting of funds between projects within the Earth Economics contract was approved by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ at EPA Region 10. A justification for this action was sent to the Office of Financial Management (OFM).