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Show ..." . . - - . - " . ... - j .; . I ... ... . , , v -r !'r VI . y-;-... . k- v. , N : f ' - -'- ' ri V., V ! ...... . ,- - :: 'v - -Zl" f' ",: " -." T . - . ' '.. - " ' f ...i-... - LOW FUNDING and heavy rain slow construction construc-tion of the sewer lagoons east of Vernal. Cat pushes landmover through the muddy bottom of one of the lagoons. f: " ' . " - . - 1 f J " - j. v . J 1 " ' . . . t" txyZ' c-, Av?r-' THE CONNECTION was made last week for hooking the valley's sewer system to this com- White HSver Shale BBP hearing here cv. 21 Public hearings on the Detailed Development Plans (DDP) of the White River Shale Project will be held in Vernal Wednesday, Oct. 21.' Two pleted lagoon site which will eventually replace the city's overflowing treatment plant. meetings have been scheduled at the Uintah County Courthouse courtroom, " starting at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The plan concerns environmental protection procedures for twelve major areas of environmental concerns in developing the federal prototype lease tracts U-a and U-b which are located about 42 miles southeast of Vernal and each contains 5,120 acres. In a statement prepared by the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee, the following observations were made after examining the copies of the Detailed Development Plan - oil shale report. "The White River Shale Project will be built in our back yard and will have a larger impact on the people living in the Vernal area than on any other people or area. The Chamber wants to keep that impact positive. "Section 4 of the Detailed Development Develop-ment Plan deals specifically with planned environmental protection procedures for twelve major areas of environmental concerns: air pollution, solid waste, water pollution, water drainage and erosion, surface rehabilitation and vegetation, fish and wildlife management, protection of historic and paleontological resources, asthetic values, fire protection, oil and hazardous materials, spills, protection of hazards to public health and safety and hazardous waste. "The Chamber committee believes those twelve planned procedures for protecting environment will assure adequate protection of the twelve sensitive environmental concerns. "Periodic review of the control programs when combined with the experience learned from the prototype oil shale program, will constantly provide for upgrading of these twelve proposed control programs. "The six natural resources that have a high potential for environmental degregration water, air biological soils and geology, historic and asthetics have been addressed in detail in the DDP. The information developed during the environmental monitoring programs was used as a base for projecting the type of control systems and environmental protection plans to best assure conformance with applicable ap-plicable federal, state and local statutes, regulations and requirements of the prototype leasing program. "The protective programs planned appear adequate to assure -compliance with all regulations, even under the worst case projections and leave a reasonable safety margin. "The proposed actions in the White River Detail Development Plan dated August 1981 are deemed to be adequate to meet or exceed the requirements of the Phototype Federal lease stipulations and other applicable federal, state and local regulations. "The proposed monitoring systems will assure the integrity of the oil shale development plan and the protection of the many environmental areas of concern. It will provide a learning experience base on which industry and government can build a future oil shale industry. It will provide substantial and acceptable plan to assist the United States in meeting its energy requirements for the security of the Nation and the general good of the people." Besides the Vernal hearings, two others will be held in Salt Lake City at the Ramada Inn Oct. 28 starting at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Also on Oct. 28 and 29 the Oil Shale Environmental Advisory Panel will meet in Salt Lake City. On Oct. 29 the panel will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |