| Show II Power plant sites sites sites' 1 f toured toured by basin group A tour of the 12 proposed alternate sites for an megawatt Moon Lake Electric Association fired coal-fired steam power plant about 30 miles southeast was made Monday by a group comprised of local area officials and concerned promoters An airplane chartered by the Intermountain Consumer Power Association flew over the alternate power plant sites and afterwards an onsite inspection was made by automobile IN TilE THE group of nine persons persons persons per per- sons those representing the basin area were Neal Domgaard Uintah County J J. J Rulon Anderton Duchesne County and Hollis Hullinger Roosevelt City Other members of the group were J J. J Sterling Merrell sponsor of the aerial inspection Jim Lee Moon Lake Electric who was a spokesman for the tour Dan Dufphey Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Jim Rogers Jim Butler Utah Energy Office and Larry England botanist Of the 12 sites the three basin representatives said they favored the No 6 site because it was close to an existing highway highway highway high high- way and was the closest to the Colorado coal source which would be used for the power plant It would also be near the proposed White River Dam and Reservoir to be used as the water supply Second choice of the local delegation is site No 3 3 Sites No 1 I and 2 were opposed because they were on the U 0 a Indian Reservation Other propose proposed l sites were according to the local group not as acceptable acceptable acceptable ac ac- ac- ac for the power site because of the distance from the coal source flood conditions and rough terrain LAST WEEK a report by Lynn Thatcher director of the Utah Bureau of Environmental Health showed that expected maximum concentration from a megawatt 1000 plant and a proposed oil shale operation along the White River in Uintah County would exceed allowed particulate emissions for Class II areas Based on this information it indicates that wed we'd have to fallback fall fallback fallback back to an megawatt soo-megawatt plant to meet emissions requirements Thatcher told members of the Governors Governor's' Inter-Agency Inter Task Force on Power Plant meeting in inthe inthe inthe the Capitol The state official explained that his agency studied five sites representative of 12 proposed alternatives Thatcher said that if an megawatt plant was built only one of his agency's sites representing two alternatives would have problems meeting Class II emission control requirements That site is on the Ouray Indian Reservation south of Vernal MERRILL MILLETT Moon Lake Electric Association director said that although the project has been envisioned as eventually genera generating ling 1000 me megawatts limiting the plants plant's size to megawatts wont won't jeopardize it Were starting with smaller proposals and going with the maximum we can he ex ex- Millett said the Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain In In- Consumer Power Association of which Moon Lake is a member has said it could sell megawatts of electricity from froin the plant to Utah municipal power companies companies companies com com- and rural electric associations If Utah Power Light Co exercises its option to participate participate participate par par- the plant s v involve two megawatt units in its il initial phase Millett said If does docs not participate the plant would generate between and megawatts initially he added SO IF U we reach the maximum early on and wants more power around 1990 as they've indicated they will wed we'd probably have to look somewhere else for it Millett said MilIeU Millett told the Vernal Chamber of Commerce recently that Moon Lake is doing most of t the e work on the the Continued on Page 16 Power plant sites sites Continued from Crom Page 1 proposed power site plans but when it is finished the plant willbe will willbe willbe be turned over to the Intermountain Intermountain Intermountain In- In Power Consumer Association who r represents presents represents 34 power associations A AThe The original plans called for forthe forthe forthe the first phase to include a megawatt plant to be on line by 1984 1934 at a cost of about million MILLET SAID the power needed to be away from Crom Dinosaur National Monument and Ashley National Forest because of environment classifications in those areas If a Utah site is chosen the coal from near Rangely Colorado will be piped in the slurry line to the Utah site Millett explained The plant will mean about coal workers in inthe inthe inthe the Rangely area about 70 persons to run the power plant and construction workers Ninety-five Ninety percent of the power will be used in Utah |
