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Show Interior asked to prequalify new UP&L power sites Utah Power & Light Co. officials Friday asked the Department of Interior to prequalify seven potential power plant sites for the future use of UP&L customers. custom-ers. In a morning presentation given to Interior officials, Frank N. Davis, UP&L vice president, said his company had conducted comprehensive power plant site studies within with-in its service area evaluating air quality, land and water ecology, and sociological, aesthetics aes-thetics and cultural effects of potential generating plants. He said eighteen sites were evaluated at substantial cost, and seven sites were identified identifi-ed as essential for the future power plants necessary to satisfy UP&L electrical customers. cus-tomers. The sites are (1) Emery in Utah, (2) Naughton in southwestern south-western Wyoming, (3) Soda Springs in Idaho, (4) Nephi in I Utah, (5) Delta in Utah. (6) I Wellington in Utah, and (7) Green River in Utah. Mr Davis asked that appropriate ap-propriate government agencies agen-cies "take timely steps which will prequalify those sites they agree are suitable for future power plant construction. construc-tion. Based upon this prequal-ification, prequal-ification, UP&L," he said, "will then make plans to develop the sites in a sequence se-quence most beneficial to those who will be served, while minimizing environmental environmen-tal effects." Prequalification, Mr. Davis said, will not commit the agencies to approve development develop-ment to a site prior to preparation of a detailed Environmental En-vironmental Impact Statement, State-ment, but will hasten the approval process. Approximately Approxi-mately thirty government authorizations are required on a typical Utah site requiring a long lead time for power plants. Mr. Davis said regarding the potential Green River site that it may be a 1,000-mega-watt coul-fired and a 2,600-megawatt 2,600-megawatt nuclear. The seven potential plant sites would take care of the needs of UP&L customers up to the year 2010. Mr. Davis said current forecasts indicate an electrical growth rate in the UP&L service area of 8.4 percent per year until 1982, and from 1982 until 2010 a growth rate of 5.2 percent annually. Other subjects discussed with department officials were leasing of North Horn Mountain (in Emery County) and Garfield (in Garfield Co.) coal. Also discussed was the processing of Environmental Impact Statements for UP &L's planned third and fourth units at its Emery plant site. |