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Show L-l t r - u-.io, w ' PHILLIPS PERMITS AT STAKE: USGS Environmental Goord holds onsitc impact analysis m Local citizens may add their input by writing to: U.S. Geological Survey Conservation Division Area Geothermal Supervisor Super-visor 345 Middlefield Road Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 before February 17. Milford citizens got a good look at an environmental board Wednesday when the USCB Environmental Board from Menlo Park, , Calif, came to Milford to conduct an on-site analysis of the Roosevelt Springs KGRA, before acting on the sixteen geothermal well permits that Phillips Petroleum has made application to drill. While home base is in Menlo Park, the USGS Environmental En-vironmental Board is made up of environmental representatives repre-sentatives of most governmental govern-mental agencies, and traveled tra-veled here from all over the country to conduct an on-site on-site analysis. The trip should have proven real enlightening, since the board has been concerned with such items as pollution of the Beaver River, killing eagles, and landslides. An on-site analysis should alleviate those fears and many more which seemedas ridiculous when they seen the rolling sagebrush -covered foothills that make up the Roosevelt Springs KGRA. Mr. Ken Bull, area geothermal geo-thermal supervisor, was the coordinating officer for the analysis visit. The permit application included in-cluded a map of the area with the sixteen drill pads surveyed sur-veyed and located. Phillips Petroleum hired the Arche-ological Arche-ological Dept. of SUSC, under the direction of Richard A. Thompson, to conduct arche -ological studies of each pad for possible historic sites, such as Indian campgrounds, etc. Environmental alerts such as those released by the Board in December telling of the damage sustained to the sagebrush when the first geothermal well blew for several hours on April 29, undoubtedly carried little weight when inspection showed that there was no permanent damage and, in fact, quite the opposite. Local input was invited and a number of local citizens citi-zens were on hand. USGS, Phillips Petroleum, Utah Power and Light and many others were also on hand. |