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Show r fark Report Self Serving, cording to Sen. Garn Ihe National Tark Scrv.ce rloBthepot""al .".pacts ; Kaiparowi,spnvcr plant ,ah is sclf-scrv.ng. ac- ls 10 u's- Scna,or , 1 , Ut) The Senator said studv. released .his "t .-Sironttly states the ! Service's determination ieep significant economic 1 topn.cn. Iron, occurring r land under .Is jur.sd.c- .., realise thai the Park fe,ice, trying to do its job. ) na,o, Garn said. It is ,e(!iih .he responsibility iooin .lining a park facility li5 ...ally free of outside u,iu(j, To do so. it has ,icrior Department 1 made assumptions iarf st likely to support .case rhe study places idcuMc emphasis on en-)ironmef.ial en-)ironmef.ial problems which .Mld result if the worst sible conditions were to Jtjur simultaneously but it Djkes no mention of the Miiiive economic benefits to derived from the develop- f tent. Environmental analyses ff typically 'worst-case protons'; pro-tons'; they focus on what .mid happen if everything ,tni wrong at once. Of course, jeverything did go wrong at lie same time, Kaiparowits noiild produce undesirable elects on the air over Bryce Cinyon National Park. How-pel, How-pel, in the real world, oerylhing does not go wrong it the same time. In the real ,orld, the need for energy, development and jobs docs no. always produce unbearable effects on the environment and I 1 am certain i. would not in the ? case of Kaiparowits. "It is true that the plume from the plant would be visible 1 from Bryce, but that does not f mean that the entire vista-from vista-from the Canyon would be f destroyed. Compare it to the r Navajo power plant at Page. I Arizona. While it is clearly I visible from the Wahweap I Marina, it does not destroy the " view over all of Lake Powell. From a few miles up the lake, it has no impact at all, and Kaiparowits will be a much cleaner plant than Navajo. "The conclusions the study draws about the loss of tourism because of the plant seem to me to be little more than theoretical. While I'm sure the statistical analysis is sound. I would be willing to bet that economists, given the same data, would come up with different conclusions. I can't place a great, deal of weight on the economic conclusions the study draws. However, I can, in a very real sense, stale what the development develop-ment would mean in terms of jobs and tax bases. "In the final analysis, the Interior Secretary must balance bal-ance the worst case, made by the Park Service, against the best case, made by the State of Utah and the power consortium. consort-ium. I can only hope that he will make his decision based on the real world and not the 'worst case' forecasting of the environmentalist." |