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Show Kaiparowits Coal Feasibility Study to be Discussed At Meeting September 10 and less significant." The study also noted that the "conomy of the study area (Kaiparowits) would be altered by all levels of coal development 'due to changes in the employment structure and above average wage levels for mining and transportation employees." In spite of this impact potential for Garfield County, commissioners pointed out that all five meetings planned by the BLM to discuss the feasibility study were set for areas outside Garfield County. Only one meeting was set for Kane County (in Kanab) with others as far away as Salt Lake City and Flagstaff, Ariz. Commissioners also felt that inaccurate inac-curate and misleading opinions had been attributed zo residents of the area. They hoped that by having the meeting held locally, any false conclusions drawn by the devewmqzrs of the study might be cleared up. Purpose of the meeting according to the BLM is to allow local citizens to become better informed about the study and its findings. Representatives of the State of Utah, and the Utah BLM will be present to discuss the study. Garfield County Commissioners have encouraged county residents to attend the public meeting to discuss the findings find-ings of the recently released Kaiparowits Coal Feasibility study to be held September 10 at 2 p.m. at the county courthouse in Panguitch. This important meeting was set for Panguitch,- only after Commissioners George Middleton and Dell LeFevre recently traveled to Salt Lake City for a meeting with Governor Scott Matheson. The Salt Lake City meeting was also attended by representatives from the Bureau of Land Management, Five County Association of Governments, and Environmental Research and Technology, Inc., which had prepared the study for the BLM. The study had been released jointly by Governor Matheson and Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Aiidrus. After viewing a slide presentation and listening to Matheson's praise of the $532,000 study on Kaiparowits, Commissioners stated that Garfield County, which would be vitually involved in-volved with any potential development of Kaiparowits, had not been included in the study as a source of any input. They told the various representatives that they had never seen the study nor had they been asked for any input. The "Fact Sheet" of the study states that "physical impact on communities beyond Kane and Garfield counties in Utah , , . would be relatively short-lived |