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Show 1 Ovens Says Morton Order ! hBlow to Rural Utah I . i I IninnmiMtc Kepresentative Wayne (D-Utah) said this eeK that Interior Sec-i Sec-i Zfy Morton's rejec-j rejec-j ! f applicants for the l P frowits" Generating gwUtah isasignif-J isasignif-J bow to the con- mi conomic devel-g devel-g tln Southern Utah. Cn ,Said "Secretary ije potentially severe Sack ronmental wets that the plant ..came as a result fore Tl'agenQy task Ned t lch was assem-pacts assem-pacts ?valuate the implants im-plants l ma'or Power scheduled for con - River Basin Colorado ficanft 6yuen more Utah 1 t0 tne People ' Court31! the Supreme v, h?llng last Mon" the p Ch re(3uires that teetionV1Ar0nmental Profit Pro-fit an!6"0 not Per-air Per-air ..degradation of f anvU ty ln a"y Part Prefix That inter- f the law is Jda m my opinion, and will have a crippnng effect on any growth in Utah. Although Congress ' does not have the power to change the Supreme Court's interpretation of the law, we do have the power to change the law, and I will be looking closely at ways that the Clean Air Act can be modified to allow necessary neces-sary growth while safeguarding safe-guarding the environment. environ-ment. Changing the law, if it is to be done, will take some time. During the interim, Utah can re-evaluate the use of the vast coal reserves on the Kaiparowits Plateau. These reserves represent repre-sent a significant energy resource which could help offset the long-range long-range energy problems facing this country. For example, some argue that the coal should be used to make oil or natural nat-ural gas and that this would have far greater economic and environmental environ-mental value for Southern South-ern Utah. "As it has been pro- poseu, U't; ltxiyai un llj power generating plant would supply virtually all of its electricity to Southern California, using us-ing up to 120,000 acre feet of Utah water per year in the process. Utah may decide that these coal reserves and this water should be used to provide new energy sources for our own state." |