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Show Information meeting on Moon Lake power plant slated An up-date information meeting concerning con-cerning the coal-fired Moon Lake power plant planned to be constructed by Deseret Generating and Transmission Cooperative is scheduled for Wednesday, Wednes-day, June 11 at Dinosaur, Colo. The public meeting will be held in the elementary school starting at 7:30 p.m. The site for construction of the power " plant is proposed tor near Bonanza, Utah or near Rangely, Colo. The proposed pro-posed plant will be built in two stages of 400 megawatts each. The first stage will represent an investment of over $647 million and would mean about $8 million annually in taxes to Uintah County if the plant is located at the Utah site, stated Sterling Merrill, community com-munity impact coordinator. The turbine generators have already been ordered for the plant and the timetable calls lor the first unit to be finished by late 1984 and on line by March of 1985. The preliminary plant plans have been to site the plant near Bonanza and transport the coal via conveyor or truck from the coal supply near Rangely, Col-o. Col-o. Colorado leaders have been exerting influence to have the plant sited at the Rangely location. The Utah site could use water from the White River out of the new proposed reservoir the state of Utah has funded to build and use water allocations filed on many years ago. Utah is also ahead of Colorado in air monitoring testing. White River Shale Project has been monitoring the Ua, Ub oil shale area, which is a few miles south of Bonanza, for over three years. Deseret Generation and Transmission Transmis-sion reports they will move to a Green River, Utah site if they cannot resolve the Utah and Colorado site porblem in the very near future. At the Dinosaur meeting there will be an open period for questions and answers. |