Show Delta Utah 1800 in out of months $1000 (In Advance) Governor seeks moritorium on dump permits by Ken Rand Governor Norm Bangerter has agreed to allow introduction of a bill in the current special legislative session declaring a moritorium on permitting of hazardous waste facilities in Utah until the state can come up with siting criteria The legislature is now in special session on the Thrifts issue The bill was scheduled to be troduced Wednesday Sept 14 by Rep Joseph Moody in the House while Sen Cary Peterson was to carry the bill in the Senate The Governor met with Moody and Peterson Wednesday Sept 7 to hear their request for support for the bill Moody said the action was the result of concerns expressed at the Sept meeting held in Delta in which about 650 residents told a panel of state experts they didn’t want a hazardous waste facility located at Lynndyl as proposed by Rollins Environmental Services Inc “The greatest concern as I saw it” Moody said “was that people were concerned that there was going to be some type of circumventing of the process of getting permits We just felt very strongly that we should go up and talk with the Governor and the health people and see what we might do” The meeting was also attended by Ken Alkema Director of the state Division of Environmental Health and Brent Bradford Director of the state Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste both of whom also urged the Governor to approve introduction of the bill Alkema and Bradford had attended the Sept meeting in Delta Bradford said his agency has the authority to impose siting standards but has not yet done so A list of such standards is scheduled to be presented to the hazardous waste committee Sept 21 Bradford declined to provide details about the proposed standards before Senior Citizens (65 and older) $15 00 Copy 50 the Sept 21 meeting but did indicate on they would include restrictions building in ground water recharge areas and limits on how close an incinerator could be to a populated area Sen Peterson said he had seen the proposed criteria and that they would eliminate Lynndyl as a site for a hazardous waste facility He called the town “a very poor site” The hazardous waste committee appointed last year by the state legislature has been overwhelmed lately Moody said “We thought the thing we ought to do is put on a moritorium by statute and wait for a period of time so that committe could come to us with their he said recommendations” The moritorium would be retroactive Moody said to include existing as the Rollins such permit applications application for the Lynndyl site In a press release dated Sept 9 Governor Bangerter said “The siting criteria for hazardous waste sites needs to be established so applications for permits can be properly reviewed and scrutinized This will assure the health safety and quality of life for all Utahns and will facilitate a fair and systematic all permit in reviewing process applications” Another change being suggested in existing law would make siting a county rather than a city or town decision Utah Department of Health Director Dr Suzanne Dandoy said such a suggestion “has surfaced” that such a change “could be considered” but added “we do not want to take a position on that” now There are three applications before the state for hazardous waste cinerators They are Rollins at Lynndyl Aptus at Clive in Tooele County also at and US Pollution Control Clive None of the applications are “complete” yet Moody said he expects little opposition to passage of the bill Conditions put on dump siting by town council The Town Council of Lynndyl has unanimously resolved to oppose the location of a hazardous waste disposal facility in the town if it can’t be done safely The motion was made at the regular council meeting Wednesday Sept 7 Rollins Environmental Services Inc wants to build an incinerator at the which is Lynndyl Industrial Park within the township limits but about two and a half miles from the town itself The motion read: “The Town Council is against locating Rollins Environmental Services at or near Lynndyl if it is going to be hazardous to the health and environment of the area However we are in favor of finding out all the facts to see if the Rollins Environmental Services plant will be hazardous to the health and environment of the area” Mayor Alan Nielson said “That has been our position since day one and I don’t think we’ve changed our position at all” The Council also resolved to seek money from Rollins to send up to 12 respresentatives to a seminar on hazardous waste management at Arizona State University this winter The seminar at the ASU campus in Tempe is scheduled for November Cost of the program is $795 per person The Council is still waiting for word from the University of Utah Department of Community Affairs on the town’s request for their help “We want them to put together a task force to advise us of the legal aspects of locating a hazardous waste plant here” Nielson said “We want overall recommendations of whether it can be done Left to Lt Jim right: Mayor Keith Gillins Lt Frampton Lynn Greenhalgh each area The nine men grades pleted the training and passed the tests with flying colors An honor that Fillmore can be proud of is that it’s Fire Department had the largest body of men in the state of Utah to take the course and pass The nine mem who were presented their handsomely framed certificates by the Mayor were: Lynn D Williams Billy Monte Emmett Lynn Greenhalgh Brunson Jim Frampton John Rowley David Johnson Denny Brunson and Fire Chief Denny Mike Engstrom Brunson said the Fillmore Fire Department has been selected to be a test team for the State of Utah as a training com- in group Observing the neat and well organized Fire Hall it appeared the Fillmore Fireman take much pride in their building and duties Certainly Chief Denny Brunson and his men are a credit to the town of Fillmore Among the people sent to help with the Sodium Cyanide spill the morning of July 28 1988 were 16 fireman from the Fillmore Fire Department They spent a total of 84 hours on the clean Emmett Chief Den- - Bill of up at risk to themselves running out of air several times No one was allowed to work on the clean up without wearing a Foley encapsulated suit which had inside it an air tank holding an air bottle supplying 20 minutes of air to the wearer 400 SCBA air bottles were used in the and the Delta Fire Department was on hand to fill the air bottles continually An ambulance crew was on sight at all times to monitor the vital signs of each man at the end of his 20 minutes of air taking blood pressure heart rate and pulse rate temperature If these signs were not satisfactory he was not allowed back for a certain time As each man climbed out of his 100 suit his temperature was between and 104 degrees caused by the extreme heat from wearing the protective covering The cost of the for just the Fire Dept was a staggering crew’ $20000 a day a very expensive accident It was noted there was enough cyanide to kill everyone in Utah five times USPS County 0 Vol 79 No 10 )5 1988 SeptJS Petition out to ban waste dump by Ken Rand Petitions are being prepared to get signatures to authorize a special election on the question of whether or not voters want to prohibit location of a hazardous waste disposal site at Lynndyl or anywhere else in Millard County The petitions may be out by presstime Two petitions are being prepared One is for Lynndyl voters the other for voters in Millard County The petitions come from a local concerned citizens group created about four weeks ago in an effort to stop the facility proposed by Rollins Environmental Services Inc That group got 1028 signatures on an unofficial petition protesting the plant which was presented to state officials at a meeting in Delta Sept The group met recently in Delta at the Regional Park meeting room to discuss wording of the ballot petition a Group member Wes Bloomfield said he had Delta City Councilman proposed the petition limit hazardous waste facilities from being built too close to residences rather than totally banning them from the county He said the citizens group rejected that idea by a four to one margin “I felt like maybe we were entertaining a special interest group just those who were quite excited about it” Bloomfield said “so just to be sure we imitated a phone survey in the county It came back even more overwhelming that nobody wanted to deal with it When you’re talking about the voice of the people you need to act in their behalf and that’s what the petition does It voices what they’ve told us they want” The Millard County petition will call for a special election on the question of whether or not hazardous waste disposal facilities should be prohibited from locating anywhere in the county The Lynndyl petition will pose the same question to Lynndyl voters for the town The separate Lynndyl petition was Bloomfield said “because prepared we’ve been told that the county has no jurisdiction over Lynndyl” could County commissioners troduce their own ballot initiative to run parallel to the citizens group proposal Bloomfield said He said that would give voters the option of the facilities or restricting their location If both initiatives got a majority vote whichever one got the higher number of votes would then be adopted “I really have been in favor of a Bloomfield said “I believe that the development can be good for our communities if it’s controlled properly” He said he believed Tooele has done a “supurb job” by creating a buffer zone and getting economic benefits from the development Bloomfield said the Tooele hazardous waste sites are 36 miles from the nearest homes He said the county added its own 16 dollar fee to the states nine dollar fee “They are going to get a tremendous tax base for their communities” he said “and yet they’ve balanced what I’m concerned with in Local man plans to climb Everest Nielson said the Council also wants the University to study fees “so the town wouldn’t have to bear the cost of The intent is doing this investigation to have Rollins pay for every cost associatied with the permit process” Brunson Asst Chief Lynn Williams Lt Monte Brunson Lt David Johnson John Rowley nY county $18 00 out safely” Fillmore Fire Department leads state in special training by Evelyn Mallet Special awards were presented by Mayor Keith Gillins to nine Fillmore firemen Wednesday night Sept 7 1988 at the Fillmore Fire Department’s regular business meeting The NFPA (National Firefighters Protection Assoc) introduced a training course in 1981 knowrn as Standard 1001 Any firefighter terested in learning new standards and skills above and beyond their local training were invited to participate In 1983 the Fillmore Fire Department applied to take the course There were 14 sections and 46 areas of proficiency included Of the 35 men in the 17 applied Fillmore Fire Department However due to the many extra hours and the required to follow through of the various regular complications working hours nine men were able to the complete training It took a total of ': years or 200 man hours to qualify for the certification For passing the rigorous and difficult test 108 hours of training had to be observed a three hour test and 100 with passing answered questions in f L : C?' i tice avalanche prediction techrtfques crevasse rescue and crossing glacier travel and so on In December Bishop said the team will climb what is called the Icicle in Little Cottonwood Canyon About 10 Utahns will form the final them is a Choosing expedition the Hansen characterized challenge selection process as “pretty demanding to say the least” and Bishop as “one of our real strong climbers” The expedition is trying to raise $500000 to pay for the climb "I’m hoping to get some support from the local merchants in Millard County” Bishop said Meanwhile you can help The as part pedition is now selling efforts one for each of its 10 dollar donation To get one contact or write Carol Bishop at PO Box 17 Hinckley UT 84635 economics versus public safety And it seems like they’ve answered that vety well “I would hope ihat county commissioners would have enough toresight to area propose an alternative similar to what Tooele has done and if they do enough advertising and things like that we might still be able to get that” Before being circulated the petitions must first be filed with the Township Clerk of Lynndyl and with the Millard The Clerk and County Recorder Recorder then swear in the sponsors who will circulate the petitions There will be five sponsors in each location authorized to gather signatures For a township the size of Lynndyl to set a special election 30 percent of those who voted for governor in the last general election must sign the petition Bloomfield said that equals 15 or 16 signatures in Lynndyl To call for a special election in the 125 percent of the county county population must sign a petition That number is 682 according to Bloomfield The group has 30 to 45 days to collect signatures “At the level of excitement that’s in the community” Bloomfield said "I would imagine we would have plenty of signatures within a week" After signatures are gathered they will be turned over to the County Commission and the Lynndyl Town Council who then have 30 days to act on it An election will then be set for 90 days later Tax initiative details inside ProIn this issue of the Chronicle gress you will find the complete text and 2 and Imtatives of Proposition be will A B and C This is what you voting on in the November 8 general election You are invited to take the time to read the text carefully and be an informed voter Reminder Don’t forget about the Homemakers School to be held today Thursday Sept 15 at the Delta South Elementary School at 7 pm Free door prizes to all who attend! Primary election held in county Craig Bishop The Utahns on Lverest expedition set for 1992 will include a man from Hinckley in HinCraig Bishop is ckley where his parents Gene and Carol Bishop live Craig is a member of the National Guard Special Forces where he is now involved in a construction project at Camp Williams “He does all kinds of things” Carol old son "He Bishop said of her rappels and climbs and parachutes and scuba dives and you name it” Bishop started rappeling after he got out of the Army in 1974 “When got out” he said “I kept getting deeper and deeper into it " He's been all over “I went to Rainier last May" Bishop said “I’ve done quite a bit of climbing all over Wyoming including the Wind Rivers and the Tetons been to Montana done some climbing at City of the Rocks in Idaho quite a bit a few years back at Joshua Tree in California and we did the east face of W hitney w hich is the only technical climb on it The other side is a walk up ” Climbing is a challenge for Bishop an adventure “Sometimes it’s fun” he said “a lot of times it’s a lot of work But you get quite a feeling of accomplishment w hey ou get up one the hard way” Bishop said he looked into golf once “but that looked awfully tame" Expedition members are now working out at the Orem Fitness Center Team leader Douglas Hansen said the Center will be used to prepare physically for the climb up the world’s tallest mountain Bishop said “As far as the team goes I'm kind of the training officer lining out a lot of that ’’ The team is learning how to work together Bishop said the May trip to Mount Rainier in Washington gave team members an opportune o prac- - Utahns went to the polls Tuesday Sept 13 to vote in the primary election In Millard County the Republican nomination for County Recorder was being contested by incumbant Linda Carter and challenger Cleve Christensen There were no other contests on the Millard County Ballot Results of the voting were not A group of IPP available as the Chronicle Progress went to press late Tuesday Voter registration for the primary ended Sept 8 To vote in the November 8 general election register by mail until Oct 17 or at the office of the Clerk until Oct 18 or at the home of the Registration Agents Nov 2 or 3 There are 17 County Registration Agents througout Millard Counts executives leave the Delta Municipal Airport Delta airport to get renovation The Delta City Council has awarded a bid for rehabilitation of a runway at the municipal airport The award was made Tuesdav Sept 6 at a special session of the Council Valley Asphalt Companv won the award Public Works Director Neil Forster said the company has a local reputation This will be the second contract the company has had with the cits In 1985 alley Asphalt was paid SI 5 million for a maThe companv jor street renovation owns the asnfct batch plant located between Lynnd'l and Leamington The contract was tot $331000 Forster said 90 percent of the amount or $301 000 came from a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration The state and the city each paid half the remaining $30000 Forster said the project is to apply a two and a hall inch overlav on one of the two runwavs at the airport The runway is 601 feet long Some light painting and electrical work will also be done to begin Work is scheduled “ASAP" according to Forster and be completed within 45 days |