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Show ' ',W vA' ) .0 SOLAR SHORES j , UTE STARTS REGION PLAY Cl7 fci wv Campfire treats cooked Uintah football -. p i 475 p by heat of the day drop to Wasps L J 11 4th Year No. 39 F Vernal, Utah 84078 fXT' " u I ! r IV p-3bs?? ' underway S S v v h Shaheen Pipeline Construction employees make a weld on two lenghts of pipe. The 123 mile system will eventually connect to a network of natural gas lines near Rock Springs with Anadarko's new natural gas pumping staion located 30 miles South of Jensen. Bonanza permit sparks By Pnaiw McCoag Uintah Basin News Sarvica The aooroval of an exoi for the Bonanza Power Plant led to an investigation df tfM fed-t era! Environmental Protection Agency's decision by a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Representa-tives, with Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) accusing the EPA of violating federal law. The 110-megawatt Bonanza expansion was the first new coal-fired power generation facility facil-ity in the U.S. to receive federal approval since an April Supreme Court decision that ruled the EPA must treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The court's decision deci-sion was based on the widely endorsed theory that carbon dioxide contributed significantly to the global warming trend of the 1990s. Only since the court's ruling have revised temperature measurements from NASA PAIR GONE SIX HOURS BEFORE MISSED Murderers escape By Geoff Lew Uintah Basin News Service Authorities in Utah and Wyoming Wyo-ming are searching on foot and by air for two convicted murderers who escaped Sunday.iafternoon from the Daggett County Jail. The men, 49-year-old Danny Martin Gallegos and 27-year-old Juan Carlos Diaz-Arevalo, were last seen at 2 p.m. during an inmate count, according to Daggett County Jail Sgt. Quen-tin Quen-tin Wilde. They were discovered missing during the 8 p.m. inmate count. "They went over the fence," Wilde said, declining to discuss how the men made it outside the jail walls, due to the ongoing ongo-ing investigation. "I can't really disclose that information." The sergeant said Gallegos and Diaz-Arevalo, who also uses the name Juan Lopez Garcia, were confined to their cells 23 hours a day. They were not considered con-sidered trustees and did not hold jobs in the jail. "They've been pretty well-behaved well-behaved here," Wilde said. Gallegos had been at the jail Exit Realty professionals 1285 West Hwy 40 Vernal, Utah 84078 (435) 789-EXIT (3948) MM shown that the trend has not continued into the current decade. de-cade. -t, a ..."There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that green- honae gaaealeawTtirhe burning of fossil fuels are warm ing our planet at an accelerated rate.," Waxman wrote to EPA administrator Stephen Johnson in a letter provided Wednesday to the Standard. "Yet despite the urgent need to act, your agency is ignoring the threat of climate change in approving new coal-fired coal-fired plants, one of the dominant sources of the global warming gas carbon dioxide. This is both illegal under the Clean Air Act and an enormous missed opportunity." oppor-tunity." . The Clean Air Act, passed in 1970, does not list carbon dioxide as a pollutant, but it does give the EPA authority to regulate pollutants. pollut-ants. However, EPA officials have gone from claiming the gas is since Aug. 3, Diaz-Arevalo since July 27, said Utah Department of Corrections spokesman Jack Ford. They were being housed in the minimum security facility Ford said the determination to sendastateinmatetoacountyjail is based largely on the individual's behavior behind bars. County jails have the right to refuse any state inmate for management or medical reason. Still Ford said Corrections officials of-ficials were likely meet this week to review whether they should , remove all inmates with murder convictions, a history of escapes or lengthy prison sentences from jails. , , , "I think there has already been some discussion about pulling pull-ing out those people that are on long, longsentencesand would be a threat to escape," Ford said. . A command center has been established in Daggett County today, Ford said, and investigators investiga-tors are looking for anything that might point them to where Gallegos and Diaz-Arevalo are hiding. 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The response also described complex laws and traditional policies that guided how it could mandate BACT to limit emissions, i Long-entrenched policy says the EPA cannot order a project to be completely scrapped in favor of a radically different type of prqj- from jail "We're now full steam ahead trying to find these guys," Ford said, conceding that senior Corrections Cor-rections officials didn't receive notification of the escape until -Monday morning. , Gallegos pleaded guilty in March 1991 to first-degree felony aggravated murder in the shooting shoot-ing death of 18-year-old Tammy Snydergaard of Sandy. Prosecutors Prosecu-tors agreed to dismiss two counts of attempted aggravated murder against Gallegos in exchange for his plea. . Court documents show that Gallegos hid in his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Groves' closet on the night of March 11, 1990, and attacked Groves, Snydergaard, and Peter Esquibel with a gun. Groves and Esquibel were able to escape to a bedroom. Snydergaard Sny-dergaard was found dead in the living room from a gunshot to the head. Gallegos was spared the death penalty, but was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for the slaying. , Diaz-Arevalo shot and killed his 23-year-old girlfriend, Lind- SEE MURDERERS on A3 congressional inquiry ect; for instance, it cannot order a power generating company to give up coal-burning technology in favor of a geothermal facility. Limiting carbon dioxide emis- month EPAWftwdromnot be done with any available technology that would not make it financially impossible to build the proposed plant. Utah Sierra Club clean-energy coordinator Tim Wagner 50 years of bookmobile to end By Pexth IMIrT Uintah Basin Naws Sarvica Nearly 50 years after Bookmobile Bookmo-bile service in northeastern Utah began, rural towns and schools will cease getting visits by the traveling library, according to a surprise decision by the Utah State Library. Two weeks ago local library officials in Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties received letters from Utah State Librar Uu U 2 9 -1 '-. r It' J -. i. BALLARD PARK IMPROVEMENTS The ground will be a little greener after grass that was planted this past week grows in an area just north of the parking lot Crews from the golf course were brought in to distribute 130 bales of peat moss, install the sprinkler system and prepare the ground for planting. The project is being completed by th Uintah Recreation Special Service District Chad Shaffer levels the ground prior to planting grass at the park in Ballard. ; i f 1 jm Sa. ft bat tt J Mtwm, Mai mm, badhr tbn WiVt pNM pttli iM MW Ml IWt TUl feawSlSaifa El Paso Gas pipeline gets It's quite a process to take 400 workers and organize them into a mobile workforce that builds the right-of-way, digs trenches, bends, welds, lays, covers, and reclaims 123 miles of natural gas pipeline in six months through desert and high mountains and under the Green River twice. Hiring experienced workers for the project has presented challenges, but no different than other employers in the area. "Right now we have a lot of new peoplecoming to the pipeline construction industry because weare so busy all over," explained Dave Johnson, construction coordinator for Wyoming Interstate Inter-state Company, part of El Paso (Corporation's Western Pipeline Group. "There are a lot of new people coming on board which creates a bigger learning curve for us." said in a Sept. 7 interview that his organization is opposed to all power plants that burn fossil fuels, and said electrical plants of the future should be powered - fey wind, volar or geo thermal In Waxman 'g letter to the EPA, he asked its administrator administra-tor to respond by Oct. 3, saying whether the agency plans to begin controlling greenhouse ian Donna Morris advising them that the state library did not plan to renew its contract for Bookmobile Book-mobile service after the current contract expires on Dec. 31. AsingleBookmobilecurrently provides service to 2,783 active patrons in the three counties, using a vehicle and books bought by the state system and with operational costs shared by the state and counties. According to the letters written writ-ten by Morris, the Bookmobile will be withdrawn and used "in MM Ml Weather by 7645 7517 JBMWT i rlfjL ASPEN BROOK -k-- tdoud. REALTY, INC. TOiadloin HigbadK k. lows Bite OCBni www.vernal.com Wednesday mEa23,2C37 Johnson explained everyone hired to work on the pipeline is required to go through a three hour environmental and safety orientation. After this course, those wanting to be hired by the pipe installation company, Sheehan Pipeline Construction Company, attend another two hours of safety courses plus have to pass drug and alcohol screening. screen-ing. In addition to these courses, a safety meeting is held weekly for all 400 employee's before they startworkonMondaymornings. Additional safety meetings are held if there is a reportable incident inci-dent to find out what happened and to determine if something different could have been done. "Safety is a priority with us," stressed Johnson. "Even tailgate safety meetings are held regularly regu-larly to identify potential work hazards." SEE GAS PIPELINE on A10 gas emissions from stationery sources. Echoing language used by EPA officials, Waxman also demanded to know "why is EPA rushing" to grant permits on coal-fired pitaitm wlnm U laa tart formed a policy for regulating their carbon dioxide output, and whether the EPA was seeking public input to form new greenhouse green-house gas regulations. . another location," while books will be gifted to the counties' libraries and divided up according accord-ing to what share of the budget each county was paying. The announcement came as a surprise to local library officials, of-ficials, including those in Duchesne Duch-esne County, where it had been planned to eventually drop out of the Bookmobile program. "The (county library) board had not been anxious to end it this quickly," said recently hired SEE BOOKMOBILE on A2 3MwM1aatt4lMafttajcUtt. ' VMMfotff NflMVHMi MW URMS AMI BMC MWlCk . CwrhtnacraTOsaxi 24BMrWMMMlKl-Klt-2aSatM7 |