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Show 8 Vernal Express Wednesday, August 2, 1995 Projects totalling $100 million secured for Utah Two key Senate subcommittees have approved requests by Senator Bob Bennett (R-Uiah), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, of over $100 million in funding for Utah-related projects and approved a pilot program to send more money to Utah's parks, forests and recreation areas. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior gave its thumbs-up to over $40 million in funding for Utah projects including ongoing construction of new shuttle system in Zion National Park and the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan in Washington County. The subcommittee also approved Bennett's request authorizing a new Demonstration Pilot Fee Program which allows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service, Park Service and Forest Service to impose user fees at certain recreation sites with the stipulation that 80 percent of the fees be retained at the location at which they are collected for site improvement im-provement and maintenance. The House of Representatives has authorized au-thorized the Demonstration Pilot Fee Program for one year at 10-30 sites. In his request, Bennett suggested sug-gested an increase from one to three years to test the program at as many as 50 sites. 'This new pilot program will help ensure that fees collected at local Utah sites, will stay at local Utah sites for improvements and maintenance, mainte-nance, instead of returning to the large federal pot," Bennett said. Also at Bennett's request, the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee has approved over $62 million in funding for Utah projects pro-jects including $57 million for ongoing on-going construction of the Central Utah Project (CUP) including $13.5 million for operation and maintenance mainte-nance of the Bonneville Unit of the CUP. Through report language Bennett included in the bill, the Indian Health Services is directed to identify identi-fy funding from its allocation for construction of a health facility at Montezuma Creek, for the Utah Navajos. Indian Health Services currently is planning to build a new facility at Red Mesa, Ariz, at the exclusion ex-clusion of the needs of Navajos in Utah. The Bennett language helps correct this inequity. The appropriations language in the interior bill imposes a one-year moratorium on the administration's proposed ruled on RS 2477 rights of way. The proposed rules, issued last August by the Department of Interior and scheduled to take effect this summer, would not recognize local rights of way unless they were established before 1976 and used by vehicles with the burden of proof resting with local governments. The one-year moratorium will provide the Congress with the opportunity to hold hearings on the changes which Bennett says is necessary because be-cause of the damaging impact the proposals could have on the West. The bill preserves 115 jobs at the Salt Lake office of the Bureau of Mines. After the House of Representatives had moved to abolish abol-ish the agency, Bennett successfully restored the funding. Utah projects which will receive funding in the FY 1996 Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill: $25 million for Utah Utcs as part of the Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement The House cut the allocation allo-cation by $5 million the administration administra-tion request of $25 million. Bennett was able to restore full funding by adding back in the $5 million cut from the House. S2 million from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for land acquisition in the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan in Washington County. $5.2 million to begin construction construc-tion of a new shuttle system in Zion National Park whose visitation is expected to exceed three million visitors this year. The shuttle system will relieve congestion and traffic in the park. Utah State University will receive re-ceive a portion of $4.5 million allotment allot-ment for its water research lab to conduct hydro-research for irrigation, irriga-tion, flood control and dam safety. Utah will share a $6.2 million allocation with Colorado for Endangered Fish Habitat mitigation. The Forest Service will receive over $350,000 which was rescinded for construction of a new interagency inter-agency fire office in Salt Lake City. The office, which will be used by Forest Service and BLM fire crews, will replace an old, inadequate facility-Utah projects will receive funding in the FY 1996 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill: $57.6 million for ongoing construction con-struction of the Central Utah Project including $13.5 for operation and maintenance of the Bonneville Unit $450,000 have been approved to fund a Provo River flood control study. In the wake of the extensive damage sustained from the floods of 1982 and 1983 from runoff on federal fed-eral lands, the study will assist the city of Provo in determining how best to handle the possibility of future fu-ture flooding and prevent additional damage. Bennett proposes new types of grazing bill To head off Clinton administration range reforms they say would slaughter livestock ranching, Westerners pushed their own alternatives alter-natives through a Senate committee recently. They included proposals by Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, to permit new types of grazing management he says have been an environmental boon on private lands but have been banned on public lands. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee endorsed the Livestock Grazing Act that would raise grazing fees from $1.61 per cow and calf or five sheep to $2.16 and stabilize them thereafter instead in-stead of doubling them as the administration ad-ministration once proposed. Also, the bill does not automatically automati-cally give the federal government rights to new water developed for grazing, as the administration would: allows ranchers to keep some property rights in fences, corrals cor-rals and other improvements on public lands; and requires range advisory ad-visory board members to be residents resi-dents of areas they oversee.' It also increases the length of grazing permits to 15 years from the administration's proposal of 10 years and allows the passing of per mits on to other family members. Westerners are rushing to try to pass the act by Aug. 21 the date that the Clinton administration's more far-reaching reforms would otherwise take force as new administrative admin-istrative rules. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt in February announced he would delay implementing his proposed reforms for six months to allow Congress to hold hearings and debate. He also withdrew his proposals to double grazing fees, allowing Congress to set them. In approving the Western alternative alterna-tive on an 11-8 vote, the committee also rejected on a 9-11 vote a plan by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., that would have increased grazing fees by $1 per-animal-unit-month over four years. Bennett hailed the committee for including language he proposed to allow alternative grazing techniques tech-niques which he said are working on private lands but are "currently forbidden on Bureau of Land Management lands." That includes an alternative that focuses on the timing of herd movements move-ments instead of the number of cattle cat-tle herded. Naples continues sidewalk The Utah Department of Transportation has awarded Naples City a $2,100 grant to continue sidewalk construction along the cast side of Highway 40. The grant, which will be augmented augment-ed by city funds, should pay for another an-other thousand feet of sidewalk be ginning at 2750 South and roundbg the highway bend near the city offices. of-fices. According to Mayor John Mathis, UDOT approved sidewalk grants for only two Utah cities this year -Park City and Naples. $3.3 million is now available for implementation of the Salinity Control program in Uintah County which improves safety and quality of drinking water in seven states, including in-cluding Utah. Bennett sponsored legislation to reauthorize the program pro-gram and allow the Bureau of Reclamation to negotiate cost-effective means of implementation. $8.54 million for Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin Endangered Species Act programs. $2.4 million for Weber Basin project. $1.9 million for Fish and Wildlife Service facilities. $100,000 for Upper Jordan River flood control study. $100,000 for Weber Basin water wa-ter quality study. $75,000 for AshleyBrush Creek study. Old post office building comes to life When hc old Post Office building at 100 West Main was built in 1922, Vernal was the first town off a railroad rail-road to have a federal building. At a cost of $50,000, the three-story three-story building housed the Post Office, Forestry Service, Land Office, Civil Service and Farm Bureau. The building was of modern mod-ern style and architecture. The Vernal 1st Ward Chapel was just to the cast of the building until it burned to the ground. Eventually the building became too small for the other federal agencies, agen-cies, that found other buildings, leaving the building to the Postal Service. In 1986, the building deemed inadequate for the Postal Service and it moved to a new building at 800 West Main. After being vacant for seven years, the building is occupied and, for the first time in its history, it houses a nongovernmental business. The Old Town Printing Inc., a full-service print shop, opened it doors for business last Monday. Teresa Green, partner in the busi- v A V r ft. fell Sri. W ttj ft i l ri my Darrell Snider with his sister and partner, Teresa Green, will open Old Town Printing in the 73 year old Vernal Post Office at 100 West Main. ncss, convinced her brother, Darrell Snider, to move from California and handle the printing end of the business. busi-ness. "One of the reasons for coming here is to get out of California," said Snider. Snider has 18 years experience ex-perience as a printer in California. Green said she will handle the business end of the business. In cleaning out the old Post Office building, Green said she found a few interesting things: an old letter to one of the workers on the building, build-ing, an empty can of Prcstonc and Snowdrift soap. The main floor of the building has been remodeled for the print shop and will showcase already printed signs, stationary and other displays. The top floor will be used for storage stor-age and the basement houses the boiler. The Old Town Printing shop is probably the only shop in the stale with a walk in vault, once used by the Post Office to secure its valuables. TTfta DdosG IbraioociO (rw DossS Auqust 3 thru August 5 A. 24802 B. 65602 Kenmore't 1 93441 449.88 CLOSEOUT. While quantities last. Electric range with self-cleaning oven, electronic clocktimer, auto oven shut-off, black glass door with window and lift-up cooktop. 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