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Show vmfc VmTiw Vol. 5 No. 2 Wednesday, January 9, 1985 Steam Contract For Trash Plant Gets Okay of AF APRIL ADAMS Review Staff A proposed steam purchase contract with the U.S. Air Force for steam from a Davis County proposed resourse recovery plant has become reality, after receiving approval of Air Force offi- cials. The contract will allow the countys solid waste special service district to sell steam produced by the plant to Hill. .The plant is proposed to be located directly east of the base on 23 acres. ar APRIL ADAMS Review Staff than assumptions predict, the tipping fee will go up. If they inflate faster, the fee will go down. While in New York attempting to wrap-u- p a bond sale agreement recently, the word was received the base had signed the contract, according to Glen Saunders, district board chairman. The bond proceeds of $54.7 million to finance the plant were placed in escrow last week until final kinks can be ironed out. The plants contractor, Katy Seghers, must still post an approximate $30 million 100 and payment bond in the next three weeks, according to district chairman, Glen Saunders. He was optimistic the problem could be worked out, since Katy placed $300,000 as a deposit. Our bonds have been sold, but technically they havent been We are sold, he explained. waiting for Katy to address this problem first. Defined as a perpetual agreement, the contract may be terminated by either party with a notice, a year after the plant begins operation, according to district attorney Jerry Hess. The first years steam sale revenue will be $2,940,000. The base must also pay an approximate $2 million penalty payment, equal to the price of the steam pipeline, if they terminate the contract. Col. T.D. Roff, director of conThe bond is an insurance if Katracting and manufacturing for ty should fail to perform in the the Ogden Air Logistics Center at construction of the facility. InsurHAF Base signed the contract for ance would then supply another the base. contractor or require Katy to finish the job, he explained.All conSince construction of the pipeline cannot interfere with Air struction enterprises are required Force operation of the runways, to post such a bond. the pipe should only take a few Another kink was worked out months to install, according to after Mitsubishi Bank Ltd. in Wil Jefferies, executive director New York backed out on the isof the Wasatch Front Regional suance of a letter of credit to back Council. the bonds. A letter of credit was z with Banque will The be line ; approximately negotiated in Phil to France, according 5,800 feet long. Katy Seghers is Holm of and Cutler, Chapman also guaranteeing 2.31 pounds of steam be delivered for each district legal advisor. pound of garbage incinerated at The money from the bonds is the plant. now on deposit with Chemical The revenue from the sale of Bank in New York, the districts the steam is tied to the natural escrow agent. gas price index, he said. If Katy gets their performance and payment bond into place, the The unknowns of that price in the future is the biggest risk fac- project is go, Saunders said.The money will be taken out of esing the district, Jefferies said. Ascrow to proceed work on plant sumptions are based on the hope that over the next 20 years, the construction. price of natural gas doesnt inflate Or the district could negotiate above 8 percent, he said. for a new vendor if Katy did not But over the last eight years, the post the bond in time. At the end of the escrow period, in about price has increased about 19 percent. If the price inflates slower Continued on Page 2A one-ye- Burglars T ake Data On Aircraft . of 40,000 to 50,000 cards. No monetary value could be placed on them, he said. Elgie Corp., along with Evans Aircraft Industries in Clinton, is under investigation by the U.S. Customs Service for alleged illegal shipment of 4 fighter aircraft parts to Iran. I dont know what they (the thieves) would do with the cards, Evans said. The IBM computer cards contained specifications for the Phantom parts the F-- firm produces. Maybe they were looking for something else, or someone scared them off," he said. The cards were imprinted with information and short cuts" for the parts, he said. No monetary value could be Staff Photo by Rodney Wright UTAHS new governor, Norman Bangerter and the states outgoing governor, Scott Matheson salute the nations flag during inauguration ceremonies for Bangerter held at the state capitol in Salt Lake City, Bangerter became Utahs first Republican in 20 years after Matheson decided not to run for Bangerter defeated Democrat Wayne Owens last November. y he took office. officially day, gov-(right- ), ernor Tues-Monda- Utility Firm to Install Dikes APRIL ADAMS' perintendent. Review Staff We Major power lines serving both Davis County and the entire state of Utah will be diked in Farming-to- n Bay in an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million project undertaken by Utah Power and Light. The four miles of earthen diking will not raise or lower the water level, but are designed to protect the huge power poles from loose chunks of ice that may damage or knock them down, said a UP & L division su influenza Outbreak Hits Davis arent trying to do any- thing with the water level. We just want to protect these lines from ice packs that build up, break up and crush the steel towers, said Meldon Ward. Construction on the project will begin around Jan. 15 and should be completed by the end of Feb- ruary, when the ice begins to break and pile up, he explained. The company is receiving some coordination help from the Army Corps of Engineers, which is also assisting with temporary diking at Dill sewer treatment plants in south Davis County. The question of financial assistance from the corps is still up m the air, Ward said. Plans call for raising old existing dikes that formed a portion of Farmington Bay and cutting channels through them to allow water passage, Ward said. Four backbone power lines are among those to be protected, he said. Two lines, 345 kilovolts each, serve customers throughout the state. One of the lines begins in Idaho. Review Staff v FARMINGTON The total arrests for drunken driving by the Davis County Sheriffs Department for 1984 shows a phenomenal increase in the ar- -' rests over previous years, according to Capt. K.D. Simpson. He predicted 1985 will show Review Staff another increase statewide. That doesnt mean more people are drinking and driving, but this is what the public Statistics FARMINGTON on an influenza outbreak in Davis County show a progressive rise in the number of reported cases of the illness, according to the countys health department. The figures we have collected are strongly indicative that there is an influenza outbreak, said Dr. Enrico Leopardi, department director. The years first confirmed case in the state occured a few weeks Bountiful ago when a woman was diagnosed by the Utah State Health Department as having influenza type A, one of the more common flu bugs. Leopardi emphasized thenum-be- r of cases are an underestimate, since not all people see physicians and not all doctors report to the department. ' Statistics for the last week of December show 194 cases in the county, compared to only seven for the same time in 1983. A high of 30 cases was reported in 1983 during the first week of November, health department statistics show. The county begins its communicable disease surveillance for the flu in November, and keep tabs on any outbreaks by contacting two schools in the county each week, and by private physicians In October, U.S. Customs agents discovered a crate of 4 jet parts at Denvers Stapleton Airport. The shipment was allegedly being made without an export license to a London aircraft parts firm, also under investigation, that was once a purchasing agent for Iran. F-- wants, he said. People are becoming fed up with problems like driving under the influence of alcohol and child abuse. They arent willing to put up with them any longer. We are more aware of these problems now, he said. The number of DUI offenders for the past year is a little above what we had expected over 1983, Simpson explained. The sheriffs department had expected approximately 240 DUI arrests, but the total figure on Jan. I was 258, according to Simpson. This compares with 226 arrests made by the de in 84 partment in 1983, and an average of 70 to 80 DUI arrests made in previous years. Only one drunken driving arrest was made on New Year's night by the sheriffs department, however. More DUI arrests were anticipated, but officers were busy with other emergencies until about 2 a.m., he said. A manpower shortage prevented a roadblock being held the last weekend of December, Simpson said. Officers were also busy handling numerous domestic squabbles, he added. City police agencies in the county made an additional 28 DUI arrests over the New Years weekend, he said. Along with an increase in DUI arrests, there has been a climb in the number of alcohol-relate- d citations issued by the department. Most of these citations are for minors possessing or consuming alcohol while in a vehicle, or carrying open alcoholic containers in a car, he said. The month in which the highest number of DUI arrests occured in 1984 was February, when 30 individuals were arrested, Simpson said. Smith Js Expansion Project Could Create 210 New Jobs to be used for manufacturing and similar purposes. He said Smith's plans to build a LAYTON As many as 210 n large produce section, a bakery, a new jobs could be created in due to expansion plans of dairy, and an ice cream processing plant as well as additional Smiths Management but resiwarehouse used space. Dairy products, dents near access roads by Smiths large tractor trailers including ice cream, and baked arent sure they want the in- items would then be produced. He told the City Council the creased traffic slated for the industrial area in West Layton. project would befinanccd Olcnc Watt, a vice president of inhouse due to the sale of some Smiths Management, said the of Smiths property and would be completed by the end of 1988 company has ambitious plans for expansion on a large block of with an estimated doubling of the land immediately south of the current number of employees. Residents of the west Layton arcurrent development. He was ea who attended the public heara rezone of for granted approval agricultural property allowing it ing were not opposed to the LYNDIA GRAHAM Review Correspondent Lay-to- school, there was a 9 percent absentee rate that week. At a Bountiful school, there was an approximate 7 percent absentee rate. Figures for the last week in December from the schools were not available. i 4 placed on the cards, he said. All the information was based on experience. How can you place a value on experience? He called the theft in California, which occured Friday, a fluke. It had no connection with the firm being under investigation, he said. Sheriffs detectives in Los Angeles agree the theft had no connection with the ongoing investigation. Evans said he couldnt understand why anyone would want the cards, since the parts to be produced by the cards are available through the U.S. government to buyers. Arrests Increase APRIL ADAMS APRIL ADAMS teeism at the schools. The third week of December, 123 cases were reported. At a Kaysville 1 Corp. But Dennis Evans, general manager of the Layton Elgie, said the theft involved in the neigborhood Indo-Su-e- reports. He noted one of the high weeks in December coincided with a high amount of reported absen- Unless thieves who broke into an Elgie Corp. office and took computer cards for spare jet parts also have other materials, they probably cant manufacture the parts, a company official said. The theft of 90,000 cards valued at $60,000 took place last week at the Camarillo, Calif., facility of the Layton-base- d Elgie V & : development but were concenred about the heavy truck traffic along Gentile and Gordon. Scott Carter, Layton city planner, said there was an additional road on the city master plan for the area but that development of the road may not occur for some time. That new road, if constructed, would probably intersect with the main highway somewhere near the mall intersection, allowing nearly direct access to trucks leaving the freeway or traveling along the main road. He said if development comes in near the affected property, the road could be developed. |