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Show I I ft 1 li f T .3: jJvL. Tfoi-i n II- 't-rltii IMTIIMIIIII II -1 IM nil iilfr' f-il "f T ia-f AA. ... ..iia- , A QUESTION OF ANNEXATION The towers of the Chevron oil refinery loom in the distance near North Salt Lake's city center. City officials have threatened to file an injunction against Chevron unless fomp-jn' representatives agree to annex into the city. , By MARK D. MICKELSEN NORTH SALT LAKE North Salt Lake officials sav they'll file a court injunction ordering Chevron to cease construction on a proposed multi-million dollar oil-shale facility unless plant authorities agree to annex into the city. COUNCIL MEMBERS waited patiently Tuesday night for epresentatives of the refinery refin-ery to approach the city and make application for annexation. annexa-tion. Mayor Robert Palmquist said he called Chevron and asked them to meet with the council to discuss the matter. No one from the plant showed up for the meeting. Construction on the $100,000,000 facility, designed to convert ores and shale rock into useable oil. is expected to begin Aug. 7, the mayor said. UNDER STATE law, Mayor Palmquist said businesses must annex into the nearest city before major construction plans are carried out. If Chevron Chev-ron begins construction and does not annex into North Salt Lake, City Manager Collin Wood said the city's only recourse re-course will be to file a court injunction against the refinery. If the injunction is accepted by the court. Chevron will be forced to cease construction on the facility until they agree to annex into the city. ALL CHEVRON has to do, Mayor Palmquist said, "is come in and ask the council to be annexed." City Attorney Mike McCoy told councilmembers to hold off on any premature legal action. ac-tion. "I don't think we should do anything until they start construction." he said. ATTORNEY McCoy added that according to several sever-al new Utah statutes. Chevron may have a difficult time de-annexing de-annexing when the oil-shale facility is completed. Until the annexation issue is resolved, the inclusion of Chevron in the newly-organized newly-organized south Davis fire district dis-trict is in doubt, Davis County Com. Harry B. Gerlach said last week. And in the meantime, mean-time, "they're sitting down there without (supplemental) fire protection," Mayor Palmquist Palm-quist said. FIRE CHIEF Earl Little-wood Little-wood asked the council what to do in case fire assistance is needed by the refinery, but received re-ceived no answer. In the past. Chevron was included in-cluded in a special fire service district organized through the county. But now that the south Davis fire district has been established and Centerville, Woods Cross and West Bountiful Boun-tiful are administering the program, there is some question ques-tion over Chevron's participation participa-tion in the district. IF CHEVRON decides to annex into North Salt Lake, the city will be responsible for providing supplemental fire protection to the plant. In a telephone interview Thursday. Chevron refinery manager M.D. Hannan would not say whether or not the refinery re-finery plans to annex into the city. "I'M NOT prepared to comment com-ment on that (annexation) at present," he said, noting that the proposed oil-shale facility will be built adjacent to the existing ex-isting plant, but that another faction of the oil company is handling the construction details. de-tails. Hannan said he was aware of the annexation proposition by North Salt Lake, but was surprised to learn that the city may consider court action if Chevron does not annex. |