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Show over both Canyonlands and Capitol Reef deserves immediate im-mediate designation as Class I and I see no need for further furth-er study. Since I am convinced con-vinced that in the end the common sense of our citizens citi-zens will prevail, Class I designation should pose no impediment to a reasonable solution to power generation problems for Utah and Southern South-ern California. Much has been made of letter written by Secretary of Interior Andrus to Senators Sen-ators Muskie (D -Me) and Cranston, (D-Cal) containing an implied threat to use the power of the Department of Interior to control the siting of the Intermountain Power Project. The threat is contemptible con-temptible and should be roundly rejected by theCon-gress. theCon-gress. The fact is that Congress Con-gress should make the determination de-termination as to what values are to be protected, and to what degree. It is a depart -m ent head's obligation to as -sist his President in carrying carry-ing out the mandate of Congress. Con-gress. Should Congress decree de-cree that a 5 variance from Class I standards will not irreparably dam age air quali -ity over national parks, it is not the Secretary of Interior's Inter-ior's prerogative to overrule over-rule it. However, since we are faced in IPP with a go -no situation, I sincerely do not feel that we are trying to provide for construction of a plant that will darken the skies over one of our beautiful beau-tiful parks. The plant will use the best available control technology, will be equipped with pollution control technology, tech-nology, will burn low sulfur coal, and in general, will be as non -polluting as it can be m ade. During debate on the issue, is-sue, Senator Cranston (D-Cal) expressed his concern con-cern over the need for the power IPP would generate, and his belief that the plant could be built, perhaps at a site farther east. In reality, reali-ty, the Salt Wash (primary) site was chosen specifically because it is the least dam aging ecologically, and recent re-cent investigations, coupled with Class I designations proposed by the State and being pursued by the Federal Feder-al government, virtually rule out any of the other sites. It is my firm belief that the 5 variance in clean air standards, as passed by the House of Representatives, provides the only avenue for construction of the Intermountain Inter-mountain Power Project specifically, spe-cifically, and for the best m anagement of our nation's energy resources generally. gener-ally. I will continue to urge Jk - 0km Pkm. m y Senate colleagues to yielc to the House on this point when the Clean Air Bill goes to the Senate -House Conference Con-ference Committee where differences in the legislation w ill be worked out. CONTRACT FOR RESEARCH GOES TO UTAH FIRM The UnitedStates Geological Geologi-cal Survey recently awarded Wayne T. Van Wagoner and Assoc., Inc. (3808 S. W. Temple) of Salt Lake a$90,-529 a$90,-529 contract to study the cultural impact of coal mining min-ing in Southern Utah, Congressman Dan Marriott announced. The research will be done in Iron, Garfield, Washington and Kane counties where many archeological sites are located along with vast coal deposits. Emmett Quinn, vice-president of Wagoner, said it will be largely an inventory in-ventory operation to analyze the physical features of the area and make recommendations recommenda-tions about future mining of coal. It's the first such contract Quinn's corporation has won |