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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Represents restricted stock that vested in connection with that certain merger agreement, dated as of November 13, 2005, between Koch Industries, Inc., Koch Forest Products, Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corporation (the &quot;Merger Agreement&quot;).  Such shares were disposed of for a cash payment of $48 per share, pursuant to the Merger Agreement.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Each deferred stock unit issued under the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Outside Director Deferred Stock Unit Plan (the &quot;Stock Unit Plan&quot;) is equivalent in value as of the date of issuance to one share of Georgia-Pacific Corporation common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The value of each deferred stock unit will track the value of a single share of Georgia-Pacific common stock.  The deferred stock units acquired under the Stock Unit Plan is expected to be settled in a lump sum cash payment not later than 30 days following the effective date of the merger.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Under the terms of the amended and restated Fort James Corporation Stock Option Plan for Outside Directors, these options are exercisable on the date of grant.  The options were initially granted for shares of Fort James Corporation common stock which were converted to options to purchase a number of shares of Georgia-Pacific Group common stock, pursuant to that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger among Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Fenres Acquisition Corp. and Fort James Corporation.  This option was canceled pursuant to the Merger Agreement in exchange for a cash payment representing the difference between the exercise price of the option and the tender offer price of $48 per share, as set forth in the Merger Agreement.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">This option, under the terms of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Outside Directors Stock Option Plan, which provided for vesting in three annual installments beginning January 31, 2004, was canceled in the merger in exchange for a cash payment representing the difference between the exercise price of the option and the tender offer price of $48 per share, as set forth in the Merger Agreement.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">This option, under the terms of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Outside Directors Stock Option Plan, which provided for vesting in three annual installments beginning February 1, 2003, was canceled in the merger in exchange for a cash payment representing the difference between the exercise price of the option and the tender offer price of $48 per share, as set forth in the Merger Agreement.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">This option, under the terms of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Outside Directors Stock Option Plan, which provided for vesting in three annual installments beginning February 1, 2005, was canceled in the merger in exchange for a cash payment representing the difference between the exercise price of the option and the tender offer price of $48 per share, as set forth in the Merger Agreement.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Under the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Directors Deferred Compensation Plan (the &quot;Plan&quot;), each phantom stock unit is equivalent in value to one share of Georgia-Pacific Corporation common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F9">The phantom stock units acquired under the Plan will be settled in cash.  Payments will be made on a date or dates certain, based on the reporting person's irrevocable election to receive either a single cash payment or a specified number of annual installments.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>By: Keith L. Belknap  For: BARBARA L. BOWLES</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2005-12-28</signatureDate>
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