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Show If? to eonsidor Ipiriyl offer rGjoof ioon dies, the Bureau of Land Management has reported it is ready to go on a study of alternative sites without waste of time. The proposed power plant would generate power for about 30 municipal and rural power associations in Utah. Los Angeles and its suburbs of Anaheim, Burbank, Glen-dale, Glen-dale, Pasadena and Riverside River-side would also be served. About 85 percent of the output out-put would go to the Calif, cities. With a possible source of coal for the Lynndyl site being be-ing deposits from the Kai-parowits Kai-parowits area, opposition to development has already surfaced, an IPP official reported. re-ported. Friends of the Earth, a national organization comprised com-prised of 22,000 members, warned IPP by telephone Friday Fri-day to stay away from the coal fields and threatened court action to prevent development de-velopment of the plateau resources, re-sources, it was reported. The 3, 000 -mega watt, coal -fired plant is expected to require 300 million tons of coal to fuel the plant for its scheduled sche-duled 35 -year life. In addition, IPP's proposed propos-ed plant, the same size as the ill-fated Kaiparowits power project, would require 50,000 acre feet of water annually for cooling purposes. pur-poses. The year 1986 has been set as IPP's latest target date for the first unit operation, op-eration, with the three additional addi-tional power units to come on line at yearly intervals thereafter. A state -selected power plant site near Lynndyl, Millard Mil-lard County, has received consideration by the U.S. Department of Interior as an alternative site for the In-termountain In-termountain Power Project. IPP's Board of Directors was informed of the department's depart-ment's disapproval of two plants sites in Wayne County Coun-ty and consideration of the Lynndyl site, located 10 miles west of Lynndyl and about 12 miles north of Delta, Del-ta, during a meeting in Salt Lake City Monday. Interior Secretary Cecil D. Andrus' rejection of the Salt Wash and Hanksville sites in Wayne County is based bas-ed on anticipated violation of Capitol Reef's Class 1 (pristine) air quality standard stan-dard under certain meteor-oligical meteor-oligical conditions. In either of the Wayne County locations, the plan would require a variance to allow violation of the park's Class 1 standard during some of the time, according to IPP. Such a variance m ay be granted under the new Clean Air Act amendments, but if opposed by any federal fed-eral land management agency the decision goes directly di-rectly to the White House. The president can then approve ap-prove it if it is in the national na-tional interest. After Secretary Andrus' original disapproval of the Salt Wash site near Cain-ville, Cain-ville, Gov. Scott Matheson subsequently appointed an Interagency In-teragency Task Force on Power Plant Siting, including representatives of state agencies in Utah. In making mak-ing an anslysis on a comparative com-parative point basis, the Lynndyl site was favored over the Hanksville site, which is 25 miles farther away from Capitol Reef, than the Salt Wash site. Secretary Andrus has adopted a "no variance policy" pol-icy" on any developments that could adversely impact the parks, IPP was informed Monday. In a letter the Secretary Sec-retary is expected to release within a few days, he is expected ex-pected to state specifically that the Interior Department will not approve a site for IPP which will require a variance, var-iance, when a comparable site is available which will not require a variance. In addition to current stu- |