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Show U.P. Conservation Measures Are Taken With a highly successful energy conservation program pro-gram already in operation, Union Pacific Railroad is moving to comply with President Pres-ident Ford's request for an all-out national energy conservation con-servation effort. UP is introducing a new intensified in-tensified conservation management man-agement program at the grass roots level with the goal of a 15 percent reduction reduc-tion in usage of all forms of energy. The road is naming an energy conservation coordinator co-ordinator at every major terminal on its 9500 mile system. The coordinator will be a senior operating officer at each location. He will be responsible for establishing an energy conservation committee com-mittee comprised of representatives repre-sentatives from each department de-partment within the terminal. termi-nal. Each committee will make a detailed survey of all energy consuming areas within the terminal and start conservation programs designed de-signed to reach the goal. UP has dropped its fuel consumption rate system wide this past year by six percent below the 1973 figure. |