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Show Lobby faced political perl BY SUZANNE KANEDA Chronicle Staff Jon Bemis is a picture of frustration. frus-tration. As student coordinator for legislative action on pollution, he saw all of his efforts at establishing estab-lishing a lobby in the 39th Utah State Legislature die out. None of the five proposed bills the Ecology Center (which Bemis represents,) rep-resents,) the Wasatch Mountain Club and the Sierra Club wanted passed were successful. At the beginning of the legislative legis-lative session, Bemis optimistically envisioned a highly motivated munity, since "students are more educated and aware of what is going on, and are therefore more likely to act." Politics The Key But due to the way politics sometimes operate, the lobby envisioned en-visioned by Bemis was never really established, and the five bills Bemis and his committee wanted passed, died. The following is a brief account of the fate of each of the five bills: House Bill 7, also known as the "Nuisance Bill" would have given anyone whose health, personal welfare or property has been adversely ad-versely affected by any form of pollution the right to bring action against the offending party . If the plaintiff won the case, he could then have collected dam-.-court costs. The bill WlsjJ however, by a vote of 3j.': DDT Bill Died The DDT Bill, spoii. Rep. Peter Grundfossent Dean of Students, wo made it illegal to sell, use or offer for sale ary f -DDT except in cases wfc; an epidemic, DDTisfot the only effective means : trolling transmission ;: disease; or when used in j projects. The bill would set up a state DDT Be would determine when fe: ticide was to be used: trolling an epidemic, t ticular bill died in commir.-., House Bill 79, the't of Recreational Uses of Flowing Streams, would L served streams for & uses, such as fishing, h picnicking, esthetics and : servation of natural sue ronment, as well as (is: public health and weft, bill passed in the Hots still caught in the Senate. group of students and members of the general community lobbying for specific ecology bills. He thought then that the best place to kindle interest in legislative action was in the University com- The Environmental i vation Act would haves. Environmental Planrii!1: to improve and coorfe ronmental plans, fc powers and programs of: and to develop and re basic natural resources. I ticular bill had the m-for m-for success, but accc Bemis, Rep. Grundfe: introduced the bill, may: it because the $5O,000i start the Environmental Agency cannot be W this time. House Bill 281, feo-Beverage feo-Beverage Containers, made it illegal to sell i able beverage container!-metal, container!-metal, glass or plastic introduced late in ' after all formal com been dissolved and only-, committee remained. Experience Fust In retrospect, Jo J; more frustrated ; appointed. "In te had no idea I'd get this thing as I amno . , "We really had no direction we were and we had never ,; perience.-Thea of not finJ lohbv as he nau . ctSd his fngV Bemis is also pa tag fen". 5 V-lative V-lative seion- |