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Show MrfiftiMM The Utah Enterprise Review , February 16, 1977 Page 13b UP&L plan would protect air, facilitate siting The president of Utah Senate Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, E. A. Hunter pointed out that his firm supports the classification of national parks, Power & Light Co. last week offered to a U.S. Senate subcommittee an alternative to proposed air quality legislation that would facilitate good plant siting while protecting air quality. Testifying before the national monuments and wilderness areas of particular environmental concern and agreed that they should be protected by Class I areas (nondegregation). However, Hunter said because of Utahs unique topography of narrow valleys with mountains along both sides, prevention of significant deterioration has a discriminatory impact that may exceed state. that of any other The proposed legislation before you will dictate the siting of such facilities at locations where they should not be built, while preventing construction at the most acceptable sites to minimize adverse . . . environmental impacts, Hunter said. Under Hunters pro- posal, predicted concentrations w'ould never be allowed to exceed the next higher grade of classification, and then for no more than five He percent of the time. proposed that permitting agencies be authorized to conduct investigations of proposed developments and authorize specific limited development without redesignation to a higher class- ification. In effect, this alternative w'ould restrict ambient concentrations in certail areas to Class II limits while allowing short-ter- variances for m higher concentrations which occur a few days per year on isolated, uninhabited and usually unoccupied hillsides. Considering Utahs Caniom Memory printing Fixed MEMORY Floating Decimal Selector Autot Constant Printout Large High Speed Keyboard layout Buffered keyboard with Rollover Feature Reg. Paper Not Thermal & Easy-to-Re- ad Printing & unique topography. Hunter said, the state would have only three other choices, each with negative impact: -- Increase the distance between plant sites and the nearest high terrain. Unfortunately, Hunter said, this clustering is not always pos sible in Utah because of close proximity of high terrain. -- Build smaller plants close together, situated to avoid plume interface with elevated terrain. Locate plants on mountaintops. Hunter said power plant sites are limited and it cannot be assumed that every potential site must be reserved for a power plant. The national interest, he said, must make some provision for oil shale, alumina, and other fuel and natural resources from the reserves now undeveloped in the western states including Utah. Hunter told the subcommittee that without Class III areas, or some relief from short-terplume impact on in other more terrain higher m stringent classifications, we cannot build sufficient capacity to supply the electrical needs of our customers in the next 20 years. This is true even though we plan to add equipment to remove 90 percent of the S02. d The Salt Lake utility serves more than 350,000 customers in the states of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. About 90 percent of the company's generating capacity is coal fired and all of the planned additional capacity to be installed in the next 10 years will also utilize western coal. City-base- low-sulph- ur IJJLJ Display Calculator DELUXE 12 COLUMN MEMORY PRINTING CALCULATOR WITH SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS Percent Key Two Color Printout Auto Constant Automatic Shut-of- f When Not In Use Item Counter Print Switch Print on Tape Rounding Switch Large Green Read Out Floating Position D.P. Fixed Position Position Add-Mo- Motor de Square Root Key Total Key Deluxe Full 4 Button Memory System Y Complete with All Accessories Ask about our special HP Calculator prices ftM ciafrrtHa ftH (auai imssOttv 0 Out of 100 applicants, well send you the same five final-- . ists that you would have picked - without you wasting time. Accent Employment Service Where the accent ' is on service! tumnoannS) a Ism oDUia.p' ono 2161 Repent St. Suite 13 Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 4869375 |