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Show 4 Ytrml byntt Wednesday, May 14, 1986 lllllltltlMllllMllllllllMIMIIIIIIllllillllllllM Western Resources WRAP-UP llllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllll!l!llllllllllllllllllillllll!lllllllll!llllll!lllllllllll!lllllllllll!lin Interior mineral and land developments by Helene C. Monberg, Vernal Express Washington Correspondent Washington "Each of the states and tribal governments can now determine deter-mine what their revenues were for the last month on each of their leases," Assistant Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles told Western Resources Wrap-up Wrap-up (WRW) on May 2. So you finally have the Minerals Management Service (MMS) computer com-puter system on line to track royalties for the states and tribes? WRW asked Griles. "It went on the line officially on May 1. It's a real advance for us," Griles stated. "Ask Bill Bettenberg about it." William D. Bettenberg, former Interior In-terior Department budget officer, is the current director of MMS. He was recruited for the post in December 1983 after MMS got bogged down in tracking royalties from oil, gas and minerals leases on federal and Indian lands. At the time MMS wasn't even certain about the numbers of leases in some states. Within Interior, MMS was carved out of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in 1982 after the old USGS Conservation Con-servation Division was widely faulted by Congress and others, including the advisory Linowes Commission, for poor royalty record-keeping and for general royalty mismanagement. Bettenberg backed up Griles. "We have the main phase of the State and Tribal Support System (STATSS) operating. It went into operation on a trial basis on April 25, and it officially went into operation on May 1," Bettenberg Bet-tenberg told WRW on May 2. "It allows the states and tribes automated access to the (main) auditing and finanical system (AFS) of MMS," he explained. "It was virtually all of the data that is in the basic accounting system. That data is loaded once a month into the STATSS system, so it is now accessible accessi-ble to the appropriate official or office in the state or tribal government or to the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) office of-fice that is plugged into the system," the MMS director said. "Before we put this system into operation, we talked it over with representatives of the states and tribal governments who worked with our main field office in Lakewood (Colo.). They made a lot of suggestions to us, and we incorporated 95 percent of the changes that they recommended into the system," Bettenberg said. He listed the states and Indian tribes and BIA offices currently plugged into in-to the system. They are Alaska, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming; the Assiniboine, Sioux and Blackfoct tribes of Montana, and Cheyenne and Arapho of Oklahoma, the Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico, the Navajo of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, the Northern Ute of Utah, the Southern L'tc and Utc Mountain Ute of Colorado, and the Shoshone of Wyoming; the BIA offices at Billings, Mont., and Anadarka, Okla., which track revenues from leases of individual Indian allottees. More work has to be done on solving the lease problems related to Indian allottees, IMtcnberg indicated. ANY STATE OH TIUflB CAN UK ri.t'GCi:0 IN As all of the states and tribe with producing lease are not presently connected to the intern. WHW et.ked flrttenberg how- the other could be included, in-cluded, "Any stale or tribe can get plumed into the ytcm, but they have to provide their en staff end they have to learn the Mcm,M he told WRW. The STATSS system no provides data on tjnmiw and mj aliirs from the previous month, Within the first few weeks MMS plans to have the syMem refined to the point hne data in the main ivulrm ill be available at wire, father lhafl ftPtfl the pa?t mown, 4 statrt end Indian lrit pUi"l into the STATSS system, still to be provided aft f trials paid b If." Wl r"0 prbjcir4 IVtter.tw i Wd W ItW If? M l he H-v-l the STATSS mtrrtf wM be hiV-r f-traUottat and fully br???d within the ftt yar. f?pi?e a fwnnifcg ba"'e lhal In-lv In-lv to had with the tr.Jrtir A"ftfTia5Ks -frwifhi??e vff ttWirt frf fT,'!!!ie I t refa 3f S. JVrr.!? .:i W HV tov n able i m"ry U in Ibe Mai fff-l-cruics grvj jri.jr Vf.-n fvrm-tirg fvrm-tirg jrs?(ctT fir !', foM fi IN? -lif'P v!m 15 t ,i Sc sV.4 I M'e tr"n fv Is pr'-''.f f-. S farV.n in f ftfxf f?e tf t.r.r p t?' rr-' t"-!1 wp I5 ftf'sin.' p i'j ISO H ' f wi j?-l 15 TV ,F3 frT'f r'? fi txA fa ?''. ?Tr? J? 1 1;'! lower amount of interest amounts (paid) to states and Indian tribes for late disbursement by MMS. Interior paid" by the 'feds' for late crediting of royalties "has dropped from a high of $216,000 in March 1985 to a recent monthly average of about $40,000," Bettenberg testified. Royalty revenues from minerals production are of major importance to about half of the Western states and many Indian tribes. All states receive 50 percent of the royalties for oil and gas removed from federal lands within their borders except Alaska, which receives 90 percent. The Indian tribes and individual Indian allottees receive 100 percent of the royalties collected from gas, oil and minerals removed from their lands. On other oil and gas issues, Griles told WRW Interior is now considering legislation which would tighten up competitive com-petitive leasing of the best oil and gas tracts on public land, while continuing to permit the marginal tracts to be leased non-competitively. "It would require legislation" to amend the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act, he said. Asked about the timeliness of seeking a change in the law while the oil and gas industry is in the doldrums, Griles replied, "This could be the best time to make a change. But we would not recommend changes that would harm the industry." Interior Secretary Ann D. McLaughlin last year set up a task force, on which Griles serves, to study possible changes in current oil and gas leasing procedures. The industry strongly opposes any changes, but there is interest both at Interior and in Congress in revising the present onshore on-shore leasing system which requires competitive leasing for areas with known geological structures (KGS's) and uses a lottery to determine who gets most non-competitive leases. The presence or absence of a KGS does not insure either potential oil production pro-duction or industry interest. And the lottery has been abused by speculators. Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., D-Ariz., is now considering introducing a bill next week which would provide for more competition in oil and gas leasing and drop the KGS provision from the law. It would also include more land-use planning, better notification and more public participation, participa-tion, Interior and Congressional sources told WRW this week. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS On public coal lands, Griles told WRW on May 2 no new lease sales of coal are currently planned, even though Interior ended In February a two-year suspension of federal coal leasing. "The new regional coal teams that we have set up will address the need for additional coal leasing," he said. The earliest date on which coal lease sales could be held would be late 1987, Griles added. In contrast to lower oil and gai pro duction and revenues on public land, "the last coal report on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Indicates Increases In-creases in both coal production end royalties." Griles told WRW. The 153 ltf.M coal report that will soon be issued stales that federal coal production produc-tion lncreateJ 26 permit and royalties increased 81 percent between 1 4 and iwi5 fiMral years, due to new coal pro ducticm on 25 fulcra! lea-, "substantial "substan-tial growth in production and royalties" on 15 otbrrs. a new method o( computing royaltiei en percentage of sales price rather than etuis per acre, increased inprcton and better au'lit Grilr told WRW IftirtK is iryirg to g the Senate to move on the tt-fsfmatiwt tt-fsfmatiwt of Je-d D ChnMefcfl, erttr.g director, U twad Ih eif.hattf-rd eif.hattf-rd (Wire of Palace M;rir- tONMl. f'rrtiitrnt Itrgn fiofftihated Uif iMrtvwfl lo be C..M ?-fW m ?. UA Sll im fwrf , t) Tfttf , is huMiri up Uifittrrus-fTs ttmfim lion Nf e be ii fhifM at C' M s baft'Sir-i hi fhiwd Ud fr lff-a irt his State, ' O.'-M tds i t-f',ftrr"d difn-.lnf, ItabMitjr n4 CPflaWy M?d Gtile. tbristetvarn hai lft ct!r rime Afil t I HI wii'kft., GfiW Mid t:lM fhada'ed ll fr-,-r f cTrrf "c 'Hs w A 7S fr-'-''-r! rt 4 tctf te tte. tre m i , ,e if s,t if rw-.TT-traJ jrr-jarf kiftCTr-.cr-; ) f.-jf Na a1 t JI f V-" in tfttTi-lrf - f- s,aisf T f tc Sd I a ? ' a rt I J i 1.1 V f '--n f-ie'e ir, Vl' c W I SB IS f f?tan t? s ti b r-- f '.al flV 4 f 'a'e- I f Crl!- .T n M ! W F ' f? t'?a cv?"-' ?e '? I? 5:5 j f a! t- 1 t-if. rut " m .tntm I First Actuary Gets Mad And Gets Even The founder of the modern day life insurance industry was, ironically, ironi-cally, a man rejected for the only type of life insurance available in his day. James Dodson, an 18th century mathematics teacher, was rejected for membership in the Old Amicable Amica-ble because of his advanced age 46. Old Amicable was a dividing society, so-ciety, a kind of insurer that distributed dis-tributed each year's dues to the beneficiaries of members who had died during the year. At best, the death benefit from a dividing society was indeterminate, indetermi-nate, since the amount of. a member's coverage depended not only on the amount of dues and number of members, but also on the number of his fellow decendents during the year he died. Dodson, reportedly miffed at the rejection, showed in a 1756 lecture how a permanent life insurance plan should be set up, how premium pre-mium rates should be calculated, and how the reserves would build up. His insights developed into the modern day life insurance industry. indus-try. Dodson was the forerunner of the modern day actuary. An actuary applies mathematics and accumulated accumu-lated experience to risks and contingencies, con-tingencies, which are then used to calculate insurance rates. There are now over 11,000 working work-ing actuaries in this country, according ac-cording to the American Academy of Actuaries. However, now they deal with many other areas besides life insurance, like group health insurance, in-surance, casualty insurance, and pension plans. Tax Increase On Consumer Products Proposed All of us already pay heavy excise taxes on such products as gasoline, airline tickets, tires, cigarettes, beverage alcohol, fishing and hunting hunt-ing equipment and on telephone service. If Oregon Senator Bob Packwood has his way in Washington, Washing-ton, the cost of many everyday products and services will skyrocket. sky-rocket. jects will have to have widespread support," at least at the local level, "through their Congressional delegations, delega-tions, chambers of commerce and media. Lack of such support will sidetrack a project," he stated. Few new reclamation projects get such support these days because they are usually both controversial and costly. Duvall's press conference on May 1 was followed by a briefing in Sacramento, with a telephone hook up here, on the Kestcrson program draft environmental impact statement issued on April 30. David G. Houston, regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation's Sacramento regional office, explained In detail the work being be-ing done to clean up Kestcrson reservoir reser-voir and wildlife refuse, w hich became contaminated in 12 63 with selenium no outlet. The San Luis Drain is now being closed down. The Bureau of Reclamation is propo(4ng a phased an-proach an-proach to cleaning up Kcslerson. The llouston made it plain In the briefing that the clean up of Kesterion must be coupled with "a long term drainage plan" Id manage irrigation waste water for the entire productive San Joaquin Valley in California, fJuvall stated el bis pre conference con-ference thai "en edviwry is beir. prepared" et Inter ior "for the rmi tVi4 to cori'W hfl be mt decide w briber to Sign Of Veto the revuH Gam! bill I lift 1 1 1 6 which t teared Carafe on April 2S tuva!l Said. "I bate M ff sm 14 believe that Mr. I;een will tn s en the bill, which Ut e,ry frpUers a major twlamatinn projrci in North UaMa with municipal, industrial, ed rwal atrt tuppJy ym If rnw h l the itate. 11 ibe etfbarwH Animas-UllaUi pfr.Wt ift ( 4'i flh-cj V- Mrica, n '4 in4if jtJ jf u U'.h on tbe UvA Utttxf end in t4 ' brfswe, mnr.4 Kbt thir. ' IN lUef In tjrse bat f9 rMrMi tt P-t tmi , V:) M-1 1" t"'!rti.-f trj'Mn--r.f ' r fl ieftvatjrr,- inrl..r p-fc.s:fj ei.agwj w.tify' )"! T b:d (tv,"!T pfpTOfi ?f?d M'p ex'.'.'.a "'.e fr. ai? fta-rr. p;r j Ko f oTfft rr.rr. tfrvWf V-if W ''erf, !?f f iri ff zr.t ff) n,i$fo TV i i b-'g bfi vp t"J- Vsri- r--itif Vrf J' L'"",.ali l'V? Ks s-e-- tec -" nt 1 sn-ItTiK'a sn-ItTiK'a la ffr-o yip '1 p H ?'cj fr. r.vim m fmf t f jf p- t" K r--1.- pf'yorl. l-'wi-f tt': tt 'f-w- jiro-tie gi pc' s-c-f j: f '1 P? r S; t - i-a -( t -,l i f crm kr, vjeef f ft' 5 K ' ' i T- I1, i tT V -'t :T fV-. r rf t1 r,f". ' ' -f Vi. tt t- t i r -e4 r- t t ' t-i . :' fi" v 't Ps-rrt ( - 1 t4 r -V f - f.Tt-"- "t f fT'i' J - fv-- v raffi" f - . K xw f ' 1 -X r--T ' "'J Darenda Dea Crow Darenda Crow dies May 3 Darenda Dea James Crow, 27, died May 3, 1986. Born February 7, 1959 in Salt Lake City to Roy and Thelma Jean Sisco James. She married Tim C. Crow in 1974. They later divorced. She is survived by her father and stepmother, Roy and Marge James of Jensen; grandmother, Mrs. Esther Marx of West Valley; brothers and sisters, Jeff, Jensen; Troy, Vernal; Roy Jr., Logan; Steve, Preston, Idaho; Kevin, Payson, Ariz.; Amy, Newport, Ore. ; and Mrs. Karen Jones, Magna, Utah. Stepbrother Arron Gaines, Evanston, Wyo.; stepsister, Mrs. Arlene Ripple, Vernal. She was preceded in death by her mother and a brother, Jerry James. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Wednes-day, May 7 at the Peel Funeral Home in Magna, Utah. Interment was in the Lake Hills Memorial Park. Senator Packwood's tax reform package includes a proposal to no longer allow businesses a deduction deduc-tion for federal excise taxes imposed im-posed on their products. It is the consumer, however, who will be especially hurt by this proposal. Prices will go up, many jobs will be lost and businesses, large and small, will be forced to close their doors. Senator Packwood's proposal is so anti-consumer that Citizens for Tax Justice, a national consumer and labor organization, recently called it "nothing but a huge consumption con-sumption tax that will fall heavily on middle and low income families." Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, says his organization is also deeply concerned with the effect ef-fect that nondeductibility of excise taxes will have on workers. The Senator's proposal would be particularly devastating for the liquor business. Just a few months ago, the government raised the excise ex-cise tax on liquor 191. LOCAL CHURCHES ELIGIBLE FDR GRANTS IN GUIDEPOSTS COMPETITION If your church or synngrnrue bas fKiniwn-d an unusually imaina-Uve imaina-Uve end helpful community outreach out-reach prtijjram, it could receive a 13,000 grant from Guidrpocts (iui(lrpiiit)t, the country's most widfly read Inspirational puMica-tmn, puMica-tmn, ba bfjftm its wnrh fr win-tiPtt win-tiPtt in the annual GuidrponU Church Award rftirltiin, A bital t4 t9.tK) wll be eward 4 to r vp tburchr fr innovative pro-Vfam pro-Vfam enipoding lieyond the con-ptreation con-ptreation 14 the community al i.tfc-o. A IS.fK'O jrraril will l-o (,af i(r 4 the inftitig hufth end il.r0 citation award will $ to tat h wf bwr pihr tHrigrrtaiiitn. In a !.t;U.n, rif-miftalnfi if the Win-t-ug ibufth fwivf tbecV fnf )! ftm the mafiajihe, (Tinfirhc ft lll drnnminatU.h ' r l1 Ih" ft ant, whkb 00 aaf U4 14 brlp the rwif itdW t-!iht0 lhcf teioftifig prtta-. Jt iftimalmin i'l be (W(iff e4 Wfitil 4-,tv 7, In i jcaf bit'-fy, tbe tlnid? j.- !U t"bitth Aafd tjtr.petiiinfl i fYr,ic. & Wide atctT p4 -' ir Tl tah- ff-trt ! t -V ' Pjnday h'r-K al fe"ff- '.isr xrct. a k Viibile f ij'i --. M-"-;H. f- f .i-.-v i 'if-,;.a. i-,ffr..J.c.j f-f t.wk--d sr4 ij-.s' So ft-d fri- t i ecjj -t t fm-g-ci , Cbtri e iK "V;l.'t' "--4 : - r Mary Belle Batty Perry Belle Perry dies after 87th year Mary Belle Batty Perry, 87, died May 13, 1986 at the Uintah Care Center. Born July 31, 1898 in Vernal a daughter of Miles Marquis and Permelia Emily Bigelow Batty. Married Mar-ried Myron Duncan Perry Sept. 8, 1921 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She was a homemaker, devoted wife and mother. Member of the LDS church, Glines 5th Ward. Served as a stake Relief Society counselor and had served as a ward Relief Society president presi-dent twice. She was a visiting teacher for 47 years. Was a Sunday School teacher and was Ward and Relief Society organist. She served with her husband in the Southwest Indian Mission in Tuba City, Ci-ty, Ariz. She shared her talent of music in funerals, church and community activities. ac-tivities. She enjoyed family, children and neighbors who were greatly blessed bless-ed by her love. Survived by her husband of Vernal ; three daughters and two sons, Donna P. Smuin, Price; Mrs. Keith (Mariam) Brimhall of West Point, Utah; Mrs. Max (Dorothy) Pedersen, Gordon B. Perry, both of Vernal; Der-rell Der-rell C. Perry, Gilbert, Ariz.; three brothers, 1 sister, Mrs. Celestia B. Rasmussen, Daniel Vern Batty, Marquis Mar-quis Ivan Batty, Paul Miles Batty, all of Vernal; 32 grandchildren; 56 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by seven sisters and one brother, one grandson and one great grandson. Funeral services will be Friday, May 16 at 11 a.m. at the Glines 5th Ward Chapel, 1500 West Highway 40. Friends may call at Thomson's Vernal Mortuary Thursday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. or at the chapel one hour prior to services. Burial will be in the Vernal Memorial Park cemetery under the director of Thomson's Vernal Mortuary. confronting the American family in the lDHO's and a superb example of what can be accomplished at a grnfc roots level." With more than 4,2 million paid tubiK-nliert and a monthly reader-nhip reader-nhip of more than 15 milium ptniple, Gutdrpoots ranks Hth in ctrcula-tin ctrcula-tin among all magsiinr in the country. It is a rton profit, inter-faith inter-faith monthly, feoturmji flnl per-ifin. per-ifin. truedife narrative intended lo fuotrr trrOjh end poiive el-littidrs el-littidrs in its readrrg. Cloidcpoat was fnmdrd in 1345 by Dr, end Mrs, Nrman Vincent I'eale, It tarttci tit advertising end i evailabte by ubription only, Winner of the Cburtb A at d twm-petition twm-petition will I feaitirrd in the K'oVrmbrf latie t4 lb matainp. Compare Our Reputation f I S A. ""WW. ""'VBtt . . Before You Buy A Cemetery Marker or Monument VVc will guarantee your marker or monument to be installed tor Memorial Da it ordered before May 15, 1986. Thomsons Vernal Mortuary IOG31 IS t?A li! t-yS f Beesley Monument and Vault Co. Robert Boyd "Buck" Riddle Jr. Buck Riddle dies of cancer Robert Boyd (Buck) Riddle Jr., 29, died May 11, 1986 in the Ashley Valley Medical Center of cancer. Born July 11, 1956 in Holdenville, Okla., to Robert Boyd Sr. and Bettye Pannell Riddle. Married Tena Crab-tree Crab-tree in Boise City, Okla., Oct. 29, 1976. Was a well test specialist for Colorado Col-orado Interstate. Loved to hunt, fish and go camping. He enjoyed football and was a big supporter of Oklahoma University. Survived by his wife of Vernal; one daughter, Melane Riddle of Vernal; mother and father of Dumas, Texas; sisters, Mrs. J.D. (Jamie) Hallsted of Stratford, Texas; Mrs. David (Kay) Christensen of Gruver, Texas; grandparents, grand-parents, Lola and Leo Pannell of Holdenville, Okla. and Catherine Riddle Rid-dle of Holdenville, Okla.; mother-in-law, Derna Jean Crabtree of Boise City, Ci-ty, Okla.; three nieces and nine nephews. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Tues-day, May 13 at 10 a.m. at the Thomson's Thom-son's Vernal Mortuary, conducted by Dennis M. Higley. Prelude and postlude music was played by Madge Gibson. The opening prayer was by Bailey Anderson. The congregation sang "Amazing Grace," followed by Max Stewart giving the obituary. A musical, "Marvelous Grace" was under the direction of Bailey Anderson. Ander-son. Dennis M. Higley spoke followed by a musical by Pastor Herb Stoneman. The closing prayer was given by Pastor Stoneman. Pallbearers were Neal Walker, Rolla Lee Ellsworth, Fred Heins, Ken Nash, Hugh Patton, Gary Lowe, Ken Williams and Jamie Richardson. Committal Service will be conducted Jby Pastor R. B. Mathis in the Boise City, Ci-ty, Oklahoma cemetery on May 15, 1986. Funeral services were under the direction of Thomsons Vernal Mortuary. Paying For Cant.; Should cigarette and tobacco companies pay for the cost of cancer? Billions of Us dollars ere going to support the Cit of cancer cere in bopitaU around the nation. It thU fair? Who should bear the tol, taxpayer or the cigarette end tobacco to-bacco industry? You can let CongTtM know your opinion by writing to your Ivrpte enuiive or Senator et The ltmie Of IirJifeientfltiVeH, WasHiftt1" IC 205 IS, or The U.S. finale, Wasbingian, IK 20510, No meel ddre I necT.9ry. r Iki r - - 7"? ;cl i t "sS |