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Show Alunite council give FGAG go-ahead on preliminary study j The 'Alunite Council' met last Thursday in Minersville '. and pretty well had their I minds made up before hand, I which course they would take, After a self -introduction, Morris Johnson, from the University of Utah, spoke on community impact and point -f ed out the Mayor and Coun-e( Coun-e( cil of Rock Springs, Wyo. were more put out with the adverse publicity they rer ceived than the complications complica-tions of growth. He said most problems of growth had been worked out in that boom town. He said most of Rock Springs' problems could be avoided with proper planning and adoption of zoning and subdivision sub-division ordinances before growth starts. John Willie, St. George contractor, school board member, member of the FCAG 208 Water Quality Planning, carried a copy of Earth Sciences, Inc. socioeconomic socio-economic study and espoused planning but obviously had not seen the book before the meeting. Mayor Young said Milford has water and the means to handle growth but needs front money to get started. He discussed the ordinances under consideration (zoning, subdivision and mobile home were adopted byMilford City just Monday evening) at that time. Young told of the $340,-000 $340,-000 bonds just passed and the proposed water project. He said the sewage lagoons were complete and there was additional ad-ditional land for expansion. He also mentioned the extension ex-tension of the airport runway in the planning stage. Eugene Mayer questioned the function of the 'alunite council,' stating that he felt it would be better for the county and municipalities to get their house in order with proper zoning and building codes and not involve government gov-ernment agencies until such time as they have a legitimate legiti-mate reason to utilize their services. Neil Christensen, executive execu-tive director of the FCAG, outlined a plan for a preliminary pre-liminary project analysis as what he thought the function of the 'alunite council' should tie. , He walked the group through a maze of ten -letter words, boxes and arrows which said practically nothing. no-thing. Bill Walker, vice president presi-dent of Earth Sciences, Inc., pointed out that the company (Continued on Page 10) are authorized to asses the alunite project with few, if any, guidelines or limita tions. Though the program outlined out-lined by Christensen calls for a meeting on Dec. 20th, the calling of such meetlne : was left to Fred Harris Chairman. ' of the information BLM would need was contained in the socio-economic study and environmental impact assessment. He said they (BLM) will work with the counties and cities on an informal in-formal basis. They ask the county and cities how they expect to mitigate the specific spe-cific impacts. Most of the package put out by Christensen was duplicated dup-licated from the Kaiparo-wits Kaiparo-wits council. In many instances in-stances he did not even to bother to change the wording word-ing from energy project to alunite project. Wilson pointed out that a fiasco like the Kaiparowits council could delay the alunite alu-nite project for years. Even now, Kaiparowits seems doomed to oblivion, he said. There were many arguments argu-ments presented against jumping into this study and unloosening the bureaucratic bureaucrat-ic agencies to complicate the situation but to no avail. Mayor Young called for a motion and Daisel Davis gave it to him. Thurman Eyre seconded sec-onded the motion for the study and the five voting members present bought Christensen's plan hook, line and sinker. The FCAG and the other state bureaucratic agencies semantics and said that the state and federal agencies were available at no cost and the council might just as well use them. Richard Jefferson said that the council would be wasting its time and that of the state agencies (who operate op-erate on taxpayer money) unless they know specifically specifical-ly what they want to study. He recommended the members mem-bers of the 'alunite council' could better spend their time breaking through the USGS red tape that was forcing the drill rig to move from Milford even though Phillips Phil-lips wants to drill more wells. Christensen said the study could enter all phases including: water resources and water rights in Milford, sewer system, health, social services and roads. Red Wilson pointed out that BLM or Alumet neither one needed this study to write the environmental impact im-pact statement. He said, if you make the study now, and the situation changes in six months or a year, it will be worthless. Ernie Eberhard, BLM special team to write the environmental en-vironmental impact statement, state-ment, said the draft EIS should be completed in the next few months. He said, they would come to the com -missioners and city councils with problems and questions on how to solve them. The answers would become part of the EE. He said, "BLM cannot use the 'alunite council' studies but must conduct their own. Dennis Curtis said most HERE'S MORE ABOUT ALUNITE PROJECT had already made these and far more extensive studies of the project and they were available in the socio-economic study and their environmental envi-ronmental impact assessment. assess-ment. He said neither ESI or the joint venture company, Alumet, which would handle the project from this point, needed anything from the proposed study. He said that the meeting was an encouraging encour-aging sign that the people were interested. Bill Bruhn, Dept. of Community Com-munity Affairs, talked on |