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Show House task force working on MX problems, wrote Gov. Matheson and Mr. Johnson. A new federal law authorizes authori-zes a basic program of com - corned Defense Department Depart-ment participation but not control. Coplanners should also inelude White House staff, the Office of Management Manage-ment and Budget and local and state government representatives, they said. State officials asked President Presi-dent Carter to take away Defense De-fense Department control over a study of methods for handling federal community impact assistance that might be required by the MX missile mis-sile project. The Defense Department's Office of Economic Adjustment Adjust-ment is said to have primary responsibility for conducting the study. The state has questioned its objectivity. For OEA to control the study would be a serious error since OEA clearly has the strongest vested institutional institu-tional interests in outcomes which resemble the status quo. Gov.ScottMathesonand Chad Johnson, chairman of the Utah MX Policy Board, wrote in a letter to President Presi-dent Carter. The letter surfaced at a meeting of the state MX working group composed of local, state and federal officials of-ficials who are concerned with planning for the proposed pro-posed land based intercontinental interconti-nental ballistic missile system sys-tem in the Great Basin and Utah and Nevada. Instead of OEA, the responsibility for the study belongs with an ad hoc White m unity impact assistance aimed at helping address the enormous problems which will come with deployment deploy-ment of MX. One section directs the president to conduct con-duct a thorough study of the issues, progress and options for organizational mechanisms mech-anisms to handle federal community impact assistance. assis-tance. It further requires the president to consult with and seek the advice of appropriate appropri-ate state and local leaders and officials regarding the problems and needs of communities com-munities that result from the construction of major new military facilities. Gov. Matheson and Mr. Johnson wrote they wel- |