Show I Coal COin Companies ponies Invited to Submit Bids on all Giant Project Participants In the Kai Kal- project this week invited major national and local coal mining companies to submit proposals to deliver de do liver fuel to the proposed Utah power plant as well as to perform mining min ing lag services In a statement made In Salt Lake City M. M C C. C Titus vice president and general manag manager r of Re Resources Co a subsidiary of Arizona Public Public Pub Pub- lic lie Service Co said participants participants participants pants In the project have explored explored ex ex- and mapped coal deports de- de ports polls on the Plateau In Southern Utah md mud are arc now taking steps 0 o determine the most econ econ- mical mining methods Arizona Public Service Co Southern California Edison Co and San Diego i jas as and Electric Co are arc ev- ev the construction of 1 i thermal power plant in south-central south Utah which could ultimately have a gen gen- capacity of five milIon million mil mil- lion Ion kilowatts The plant could be ibe fueled from coal located on about acres of federal and state owned lands lands' in east-central east Kane county The coal companies have until feb eb 28 1967 to submIt submit sub subs mit their proposals to the utility group Titus pointed out that since technology of coal minIng mining min min- ing is entering an era of ot rapid evolution the participants wish to benefit from the latest developments developments de de- and thinking of established experts in the coal mining field He lie said he expected this approach would accomplish the following following fol fol- fol lowing 1 1 Help establish the overall overall overall over over- all economics of the Kal Kal- project and its competitive rotation relation to al alternate alternate al- al terna ternate te sources 2 Determine whether coal delivered from some Utah sources would be more economical than any other energy supplies available to the participants at their load centers 3 Aid in deciding whether some other form of fuel Is indicated lie He cited for example example example ex ex- ample that it might be found lound advisable to extract salable ga gaseous and liquid products by-products from the coal and only burn the remaining remain ing char as boiler fuel luel In other phases of the range long project Titus said negotiations are arc continuing continuing continuing con con- with the U. U S S. Bureau Bureau Bur nur- eau of Reclamation on terms of a contract for withdrawal from Lake Powell lowell of water allocated to the tho project by bythe bythe bythe the State of Utah A form of contract which we believe equitably provid- provid |