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Show WASATCH COUNTY COURIER oo ea A9 Power Crunch Heig htens ie: California Sentie HANNAH WOLFSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER many ish in bankrapicy bad consumers in other Western states are left tooe up the tab,” Leavitt said.. from it are often blamed _ sometimes SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —- Even in unfairly _ for traffic congestion, hous- __ Tim Hay, Nevada’ Ss consumer a. the best of ‘times, California’s neighing prices, environmentalists and tofu. cate, said no one begrudges California bors think of the state as the obnoxBut as California began rolling — its power — especially since much of ious guy down the street. And with the blackouts and the keeper of the state’s the West’s economy depends on the state’s electricity troubles rippling grid accused out-of-state suppliers of _Golden State’s. business — but their though the region, these aren’t the withholding power, some Western pol‘concern is that the cost of powering best of times. icy-makers were on edge. — _ California will fall on the rest of the iointing as” Resentment is. = “Certainly, we’re nervous,” said ~ West. Westerners worry that California’s Arizona Rep. Jeff Hatch-Miller, chair“You don’t necessarily want to have poor energy planning will mean higher man of that state’s House Energy com-our air quality degraded or our water bills and less reliable Power a = mittee. “They have a huge population consumed just to sell power outside across the region. and they have a huge political presthe state,” he said. “I think everybody in the West kind ence. And you get a little nervous Already, some Western businesses éf feels that California is the big pig in — because you’re’a neighbor and you have shut down operations due to the the sty,” said Pat Bagley, who drew an realize they may look toward you.” power crunch, and that could cause editorial cartoon in last Wednesday’s - With that in mind, the governors of layoffs or other economic problems, edition of the Salt Lake Tribune showArizona, Nevada, Montana, Utah and said John Maddox, president of the ing California borrowing an electrical Wyoming wrote a letter last week to Denver-based. Center for the New outlet from snowbound pe to runa California Gov. Gray Davis, telling the ~ West. | hot tub. _ state to put its house in order. If that fend ebritinues. Cattornia “They get all the dectonik wotes and © Also last -week, Utah Gov. Mike cursing could spread nationwide.. they’ve got all the influence,” Bagley _ “[ don’t think that it’s just a Western — _ Leavitt pointed a finger at California’ S said. “Now they’re coming to. the phenomenon, ” Maddox said. “Anytime “disastrous deregulation scheme.”: Western states with hat.i in hand and -a state that claims a trendsetting cul_. “California consumers cannot be saying, ‘Help us out.” : shielded from the true cost of power tural leadership is struggling, all this The West’ S other states don’ t need pentup pee a: will come out.” while He Hage are atone to Bas "LEGISLATURE While rc. week. of archaic reduce government Bills — introduced on the 367 sections of Utah Code. _- Sponsors of 14 bills to repeal nearly 54 pages of Utah Code joined Majority and Minority Leadership in- Gas ‘We are trying to get rid numerous sections or obsolete of law,” . said Senate President Al Mansell, R — Sandy. “As the session’s first’ day could result in the elimination of ~ W session progresses, we will likely look at repealing — additional’ sections of code _ of x sa t< Y + Interim. — IPRA ‘2h that the Souchal of gov- chaired...by: © -ernment bureaucracy is just ch Wasatch’s ga representative, Beverly Evans, R Altamount, and Rep. Bryan Holladay, R — West Jordan, decided to focus committee efforts on reducing government bureaucracy rather than adding to it. Committee _ work concentrated on recod- as important as the passage of few laws,” said House Speaker Marty Stephens, R — Farr West. ies House Minority Leader Ralph Becker, D — Salt Lake City, said “We are pleased to be working with our Republican colleagues in a bi-partisan way to eliminate a little more controversial ‘ifying: or repealing duplicathan. those presented tive and obsolete sections of laws that are antiquated or today.” maybe in some cases never Utah Code. : Following last year’s ses“We decided to begin should have been on the sion, © the. Government ~~ this session by emphasizing —_ books.” atc hb, 2001 coy Chevron - oyWasatch County. S1. 459 Heber 100s, Main, Heber | 750 Ss Main OBSERVED 01/ 1 9/01 updates. JANUARY 12. JANUARY 19 —AOON. 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