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Show Ways to attract industry outlined to Chamber Dalo Carpenter, from the Utah Division of Industrial Dtfvelopment Hoard, was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Moab Chamber of Commerce Tuesday, Carpenter, along with Mike McGrath from the same agency, agen-cy, spoke to chamber members, mem-bers, on ways a community, seeking industrial development, develop-ment, can attract big industry to its area. The notion that big industry is only attracted to large metropolitan areas such as the Wasatch front, Is simply not true, Carpenter said. The two are touring Southeastern Utah to assess the region for potential industrial indus-trial development. With the current emphasis on energy development, and making use of the untapped resources in the state, Mr. Carpenter said that some would like to wait until the market value of coal goes up, and then present it to the open market. He explained the market dynamics can change over the years, and Utah should take advantage of her coal resources now, noting thai some markets for coal which presently exist may not be there in the future. There are four constraints to economic development in the West that must be taken into consideration before a developer caji move into an area. Three are: market constraints, con-straints, which have to do with the demand of the product; pro-duct; transportation to and from the area, and how accessible acces-sible the area U; md in the drought stricken West, water constraints. However, Carpenter, an optimist, op-timist, said he felt the water problems are something that can be coped with. The fourth constraint, which is all too familiar in this area, is what Carpenter referred to as pol- icy constraints, which have to do with national environmental environ-mental policy laws. These have put the burden on the Interior Department and Its various agencies, such as IILM and l'ark Service, but he said there are ways to work with those federal agencies agen-cies for development of an area. In order for an area to attract industrial development develop-ment it must meet certain criteria to be considered as a possible site for outf state developers. Three concerns were mentioned specifically: transportation, which includes inclu-des roads and accessibility to a site as well as having close ; proximity to an area that can ', support and supply a large ! industrial complex; a good local labor pool to draw from; ; and the kind of lifestyle ; people enjoy. All these are J taken into consideration be- ' fore a company will make a move to set up shop in a new ' area. Carpenter. J Mike McGrath had a few J comments for Chamber mem- ! bers. Impressed by the natu- ral beauty of the surrounding ! area in Grand County, Mc- j Grath said he could under- stand why some people would J like to keep it a secret, but J looking at the total picture it J would be impractical, he said. McGrath, who is respon- sible for bringing out-of state developers into Utah, said it is J up to the local people to be the j salesmen, and securing any J new development is up to J them. 3 Lee Kuhre, representing j Anschutz Corporation, thank- j ed the Chamber for its sup- j port and letter writing in ! securing the southern route up the Book Cliffs to their drilling sites. He said there are still some obstacles to J overcome, but they are mak- J ing progress in their efforts to ', drill on their claims. ', |