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Show Utah Power Co. signs 50-year power agreement Utah Power and Light Co. and four neighboring investor-owned investor-owned utilities this week entered en-tered into a 50-year power agreement which will benefit more than one million Rocky Mountain electric consumers. E. M. Naughton, president of TJP&L, said the program will further strengthen interconnection inter-connection and coordinated operation op-eration of the five utility systems and thus improve service and lower costs. The group will be operated under the name of AMPS (Associated (As-sociated Mountain Power Suppliers). Sup-pliers). The companies include Utah Power & Light, Idaho Power, Montana Power, Pacific Power & Light and Washington Washing-ton Water Power companies. . Mr. Naughton said 565 miles of 230,000 volt transmission lines are scheduled for immediate immed-iate joint construction linking Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming Wyom-ing and eastern Washington. This project alone will require an investment of some $21 million mil-lion with additional facilities to be built in future years. Mr. Naughton said each company will hold transmission rights in the lines but will construct con-struct and own the transmission transmis-sion facilities in its service area. ar-ea. Rheumatic fever and the rheumatic heart disease that may follow it account for much of the cardiovascular disease di-sease among young people, according ac-cording to the Utah Heart Association. As-sociation. Wood celluloise (tree-derived source of paper) is the fibrous part of the wood. |