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Show 84 1U ,wwft(ji-0T'5-l,I- 1 - firm-- ; 'MM r.m tm r UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION i,.l.,l,llll Serving East Juab County Volume 101 No 49 www.nephitimesnews.com December -A 10, Nice Place To Live! 2003 Single Copy Price Zoning changes in Nephi to be discussed December 16th Nephi City Police move to new headquarters By By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent zoning opted? The Nephi City Police Depart- in Nephi ho di.-tri- ct- ad- Tho-- e zoning changes will address where various type- - of day care, preschool, music and other home-ba-eand standalone educational activities may be conducted a- - either allowed or conditional uses. A public hearing w ill be held bv Nephi City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 1(5. at 6:30 pan. to discus-thi- s and two other proposal-- . We may need to make some changes to come into compliance with state law. said ('had Brough, mas or. The council will al-- o take public comment on proposed amendments to the descriptions of commercial and indu-tri- ment is in the process of moving their headquarters. The old office, located inside the city building, is being abandoned for the new and roomier site just north of the county building in the space once occupied by Juab School District offices. The school district is completely moved out, said Mayor Chad Brough. The offices are now largely completed and the police department will spend the next few days moving. Brough said the new space was a much better location for the le-so- ns. d department. He invited council members to com- Correspondent Should amendment.- - to the Times-New- s visit the new location and Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s al - LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW Lot al areas are experiencing the beautiful white stuff, yet we need much more to accommodate for next summer. The weatherman is calling for mostly cloudy skies with Photo by Heath Dopp. a chance of snow today and tomorrow with clearing on the weekend. See Police on page 2 See Zone on pope 2 Commissioners to attend special meeting to discuss radiation exposure compensation While commissioners plan to later in the afternoon, they will not be able to hold their regular meeting then because they are conducting budget hearings. Once those hearing dates and the hear- minutes each. Howarth said he, Steele, and Robert Steele, Juab County Neil Cook, as a commission, Commissioner, is also scheduled have been working to have Juab Juab County Commission to address the board. County added to the list of those meeting has been rescheduled s counHe a was areas of the state where geiger using and will not be held on Monday, to collect are eligible ter in Juab County at the time Dec. 15. of the nuclear testing in Nevada compensation. are set times the (concerning Instead the meeting will be The Act specifies a payment of and can substantiate the levels held on Tuesday, Dec. 16. It will budget), they cannot be changed, on the ground in the said Howarth. of radiation $50,000 to an individual who was still begin at 10 a.m., just as it Effects The said on Board Radiation the tests, physically present in one of the county following would have done if it had been is in Research affected areas downwind of the a board the Howarth. (BRER) held on Monday. of National Academies residents on Several Division the county Nevada Test Site during a period We will not be able to attend wall also address the board, said of atmospheric nuclear testing, Life Studies (DELS). and Earth the regularly scheduled meeting, and later contracted a specified said Wm. Boyd Howarth, be- And was founded in 1981 to Howarth. will be who coordination of National those given compensable disease. Among cause we are attending a special provide few The claimant mu.--t have lived to Research Iris Council a minutes are interests (NRC) speak meeting being held to discuss rain the biologic effects of all forms Tolley, Carolyn Royce, and Gloria or worked downwind of atmodiation exposure compensation. Guston, to name a few. spheric nuclear tests in certain Commissioners are all plan- of radiation. w ill also be times when in Utah. Nevada and Sen. There counties Orrin (R) Hatch, Utah, ning to be at the hearing being Rabe Arizona allowed for mike fora and will the an period of at least two sponsored fought open conducted before the Board on who are not years during the period beginning diation those so attending, Exposure Compensation Radiation Effects Research. fedon the agenda, may also make on January 21. 1951, and ending The public hearing w ill be held Act, which acknowledges the eral governments responsibility comments. However, because of on October 31, 1958, or, for the pein St. George at the Dixie convenDownwind-er- s the limited time for those tes- riod beginning on June 30. 1962. tion Center and will begin at 8:30 for injuries to Utah caused fallout above from by timonies, it is suggested, said and ending on July 31, 1962. a.m. It will end at 8 p.m. The designated affected area-aratomic Howarth, that all wanting to testing. The hearing is being conducted ground in the State of Utah, the have Hatch also wrote their amendments testimony participate by the National Academy Division be of Beaver, Garfield. I ron, so down counties to can a which that written the the act, copy expanded of Earth and Life Studies, Washeliif Millard. is not Kane. board to of handed the there victims number Piute, San Juan. exposure ington D.C., Radiation Exposure and Wa v no for for full comment. time Sevier, Washington, gible enough compensation. Compensation Act (RECA). is foolish think that a "It to For those reasons, Hatch will allowed three are Speakers By Myrna Trauntvein Correspondent Times-New- s be back in Nephi be one of the speakers at ing. "Down-winder- e: blanket could be w rapped around Juab County during the period of nuclear testing which kept it free from contamination." said Howarth. "Wo want Juab County to be added to the li- -t of those counties where ictim- - are compensated." There are now five categoric-o- f claimant-- : uranium miners, uranium millers, ore transporters, downwinders, and participants. Each category requires similar eligibility criteria-exposurto radiation and existence of a compensable disease. "Only certain cancers qualify for compensation," said Howon-sit- e arth. are: leukemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia), lung cancer, multiple myeloma. lv mphoma- - (other than and primary Hodgkins cancer of the thyroid, male or female' breast, esophagus, stomach. pharvnx. small intestine, pancrea-- . bile duct- -, gall bladder, salivary gland, urinarv bladder, brain, colon, ovary, or Iicr (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B Tho-- e es e). Commissioners want to look closer at wildland fire budgets, based on population, before signing agreement By Myrna Trauntvein 77 mes-Ne- u s Corresponden I It seems strange that counties with more population pay less in wildland fire budget than Juab County w ith a much smaller resident base. "Wi t h a p rice t a g of $ 56.26 1.71. 1 it takes a big portion of our county budget, said Wm. Boyd Howarth. commission chair. Commissioners agreed they would not ign the agreement with the Utah Division of Forestry. Fire and State Lands until some of the concerns the commission had were addressed. We need to get copies of those in our geographic area so that w e can compare the charges for Juab and for those other counties," said Neil Cook, commissioner. The information will need to be supplied, according to terms of the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMMA). The 8156.261.71 figure represents almost one half of our Juab County budget." said Rob- ert Steele, commissioner. In the future, said Howarth, the fee should drop significantly. history is used to come up with the amount the county is charged. In figuring the seven year average, the highest and lowest amount are tossed out and the remaining A seven-yea- r wildland suppression supplies. $1 1.328 for a warden alary, the average. Just two vears ago. Sanpete public notices of $156. equipment. supplies and maintenance and Millard Counties joined, of wild$ .303. fire tool expenses of said Howarth, so their be it. $500. land fire history would not training costs of s 750. and fact some the the wildland that However, significant. Nevertheless, they suppression fund of $12,109.71. would still have a population of the counties w ith larger popuLa-- t base much larger than that of lations were paving as little a tear, the- countv paid a rumored $9,000 did not seem $ 5 1.2 1.71 for the budget. Juab County. Fire experience is only part to be equitable. Along with signatures on the We need to know what the document, commissioners were of it," said Mike Seely, county asked to supply the number J administrator. The part that others pay." said Cook. I question is our small populaIn addition, it would be wi-- e to umncoi porated private land tion and the larger population know why the state arrived at the acres and the total of others and the amount each figures they did in charging the evaluation of unincorporated . to pay. of the counties is charged. It fees the county i priv ate land-Commissioner delaved apto The doesn't seem to be a level playcounty is requested wildland a 876.091 the field." suppres- proving pay agreement until ing fee. fee for a sion their sen ice $50,727 It was true, said Howarth. question are five years are used to calculate that Juab County had some devastating fires in the mountains. Those fires had meant that much of the juniper was gone and June grass had replaced -- 1 - 1 if-css- ed ed d. """ t. 1 |