The Observer
May 2004

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	EPA will reexamine air pollution question
Citizens' council to be formed for gold mine
Big changes loom for Valdez tanker terminal
	Volunteer Profile: OSPRC member passionate about wood
Council elects new officers, seats new members
Is Alyeska ready for non-crude oil spills?
Council board praises heavy-weather towing exercises
Tom Copeland appointed to a national panel on dispersants
	Project manager hired in Anchorage office
Alyeska Viewpoint: Alyeska ballast-water facility under study
	Auke Bay Lab: The council's research partner
Council's campaign against invasive sea species stretches back for past eight years
Major exercise planned for late summer
Session raises few issues for council
Community Corner: Marking the council's fifteenth anniversary