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Show Sen. Garn eomionf on clean air bill threatening a filibuster," he said. "What I would like to see Is for the Senate to take at least two weeks to consider con-sider the legislation so that the people themselves can make an Informed judgement about necessary tradeoffs." "I am now assessing the level of support In the Senate Sen-ate for a full debate. At the very least, I Intend to Insist that consideration of the bill be delayed until Senators have had a chance to hear from environmental groups, industry groups, State and local officials, and the people peo-ple at large." "My staff and I are working work-ing on several amendments which would do a great deal to alleviate the impact of the legislation on Utah specifically. specifi-cally. If they were to be accepted, ac-cepted, the bill would be bearable though it would, in my opinion, still be far too expensive and an unwise piece of legislation. Senator Jake Garn(R-Ut) said today that the Clean Air BUI reported this week by the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works Is not appreciably different dif-ferent from the one he filibustered fili-bustered at the end of the last Congress. He said there are serious questions about non-deterioration non-deterioration of air which must be thoroughly debated before the bUl comes to a vote. "Given the extent of Federal Fed-eral ownership of Utah and the numberofNatlonalParks and Monuments, the bill wUl have a greater impact on our State than any other," said Senator Garn. "We have high terrain problems which distort dis-tort measurements of pollution. pol-lution. The results of these measurements would cost the State and the nation needed energy and mineral development. devel-opment. Some adjustments must be made In the bill to accomodate these problems." prob-lems." Garn said that the biU, a s reported, offers unaccept -able choices for the American Ameri-can people and American industry. At the time we are being asked to conserve energy, he said, business would be forced to adopt processes pro-cesses which are highly energy en-ergy consuming and which produce no gains In air quality qual-ity over what could be achieved by alternative means. "Tall stacks, intermittent controls and clean coal are aU ways to protect our health and environment by keeping air clean," said the Utahn. "Yet all of these are rejected re-jected by the bUl in favor of very expensive scrubber systems which wiU have to be paid for by consumers and which consum e huge am ounts of scarce and expensive energy." en-ergy." "These issues have not been debated since passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and we now face a very different dif-ferent environment and energy en-ergy supply picture than we did then. We have been through an oil embargo and a crisis winter which should have made us aware of the precarious nature of our energy en-ergy supply. We have also made great strides toward cleaning up our air. The kind of approach taken in 1970 is no longer appropriate." appropri-ate." "President Carter has said that Industry must convert con-vert from oil and gas to coal as a boiler fuel. However, the Committee bill imposes such restrictions on coal use that it wUl be Impossible to carry out the conversion. It is easy to predict that dozens of manufacturers and power companies wUl sue to fight the conversion orders which will result In massive mass-ive increases in the prices of their porducts." Senator Garn said it is his Intention to see that these issues are debated fully in the Senate. "I emphasize that lam not |