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Show Hanksville Area Power Plant Plans Are Progressing The proposed power transmission trans-mission system of the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Power Project from its Caineville, Utah plant through Nevada and California has been approved by the IPP Board of Directors. Cost of the system to the southern California participants partici-pants is estimated at $531 million for two lines about 535 miles in length. The transmission system design calls for a combined direct current and alternating current system to southern California; and an alternating current system for the Utah-based Utah-based Consumer Power Assn. (1CPA). Two 500 kilovolt dc transmission lines are proposed propos-ed to Victorville Switching Station in southern California. They basically follow two separate corridors for reliability reliabil-ity purposes. A converter station would be constructed at the generating station in Utah and at the terminus of the dc lines at Victorville. Power would be carried from Victorville to the southern California participants partici-pants over alternating current lines. The ac transmission system for 1CPA would be comprised of 533 miles of 345 kv and 230 kv line, to be built at an estimated cost of more than $66 million. Planning toward completion of the first proposed power generating unit near Caineville Caine-ville (iust west of Hanksville) in 1984, ICPA, which has been authorized to obtain and hold water rights for IPP,- has executed an agreement with the Wayne County 'Water Conservancy District for cooperative coop-erative development of a multi-use water storage project. pro-ject. The project will use water from the Fremont River, according to Joseph C. Fack-rell. Fack-rell. executive director of ICPA. IPP participants have agreed ag-reed to extend the length of their study agreement for a one-year period ending not later than December 31. 1977. An additional $3.8 million in funds for the extra year's study period was also authorized author-ized under the amended study agrement. This increases the total IPP study budget to almost $9.3 million. The additional year's time and increased funding is needed to complete environmental environ-mental impact statement work required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; for supplemental ground water resources development studies; and for additional environmental studies required requir-ed to comply with the California Environmental Quality Qua-lity Act of 1970. |