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Show were State Director Paul . Howard, Cedar City District Manager Morgan Jensen, and Draft team leader Ernie Eb-erhardt. Eb-erhardt. Scheduled speakers were Rep. Garth Jones and Royce Chamberlain, President of the Cedar Chamber of Com -merce, both of Cedar City, Red Wilson and Alva Kirk, both Milford, and Winch. Due to the small number of speakers, Judge Rampton allowed anyone to speak, and this brought forth Bill Tipton, Tip-ton, Alumet's chief, who is ; putting the project together, , Fred Harris, Beaver County i Commission, andRayJuve-. andRayJuve-. lln, who offered rebuttal for I some of Winch's statements. Generally, the speakers and the crowd were for the project, and felt that Beaver County and Milford were in (Continued on Page 2) For most of those at the public hearing on the alunlte draft statement Tuesday night, the number one question ques-tion was: How long is it going to take and, will inflation eat up the project before it gets off the ground. Every day's delay of the $460 million project boosts construction costs by $100,-000 $100,-000 dollars. Realistically then, each delay quickly races the project to the point where there will soon be no economic return. This, then, was the general gen-eral theme of seven out of eight persons who spoke for the record, out of more than eighty persons in attendance. The only opposition to the project came from John Winch of the Winch Cattle Company of Manti and owner of the WahWah Ranch. Winch opposed the project on the basis that the draft does not provide adequate compensation compensa-tion for grazing land lost, nor replacement of same through chaining and revege-t revege-t at Ion. He also said he thought that the estimates for particulates parti-culates emitted into the air was too conservative. Winch said that the draft calculated approximately five days of wind per month and that this should be at least doubled. dou-bled. The hearing was conducted conduct-ed by Administrative Law Judge John Rampton. On the panel representing BLM HERE'S MORE ABOUT Alunito good position to take care of the influx of people, both during construction and permanent operation. The depressed area Is in need of industry, and growth to stabilize its business and educational communities. The deadline for written commentary Is December 6th. This was the first of two public hearings. The second was held Wednesday, December 1st, in Salt Lake City. |