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Show A8 Wednesday, January 23, 2008 eds seek draft environmental impact statement Federal officials held a public hearing Thursday in Salt Lake City to gather comments on a draft programmatic environmental environ-mental impact statement (PEIS) regarding the designation of energy en-ergy corridors on Western lands under the control of the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. But last week's meeting wasn't the only opportunity for comment on the energy corridor corri-dor plan, which was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The public can still offer comments on the proposal online and in writing until Feb. 14. Under the direction of Congress, Con-gress, the departments of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy and the Interior are proposing to designate corridors corri-dors on federal land for locating future oil, natural gas and hydrogen hy-drogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure in the West. These corridors would be the agency-preferred locations where pipelines and transmission transmis-sion lines may be sited and built in the future. Designating such "s" Vernal and Roosevelt Davis Jubilee Foods Carl Foote Matt Massey Ute Plaza Smith's Food & Drug Wells Fargo Bank Kingsbury Community Church Turning Point Shelter Uintah County Uintah County Commissioners Salvation Army Heather Hoyt Mike McKee SueAnn Burraston Suzie Hernandez Duchesne County Duchesne County Commissioners Daggett County Daggett County Commissioners Stan & Esther Knight Gaylon & Catherine Yack Zeke Foster Jasmine Foster Sydney Richards Harvest Fellowship Church Lynn Truman Ashley Valley Calvary Chapel All Uintah Basin LDS Church Wards Zion's Bank Wells Fargo Bank G.S. Electric Rod's Mini Lube Keith Eddington Moon Lake Electric Areva Huish St. Helen's Catholic Church Gordy & Kay Hannston Moon Lake Electric Don & Louise Davis Vernal Rotary Club Allpro Plumbing The Bluebell Store R. N. Industries Trucking Roger & Ann Chapman David & Kathy Chapman Brad Wells Basin Vet Ray Farnsworth Jessen Electric Stillwater Construction B-Diggin Backhoe Service High Country Temperature City of Duchesne Michael & Lacy Elson John & Mary Larson & Diane Neilson Current Topics Club Fran Harding American Legion Auxiliary 124 Michael & Lacy F.lson Gale Rasmusscn Hank's F.lcclric WM$ 'Wllfi QfiM .. . I Hi; public input on energy .corridors would improve interagency inter-agency coordination in reviewing tfnd approving energy transport projects proposed for federal lands, and reduce environmental effects and conflicts with other uses of federal lands. Individual projects proposed for these corridors would undergo un-dergo further, project-specific environmental analysis before being granted permits or rights-of-way. The draft PEIS for the project is available for review at libraries and BLM and Forest Service field offices in the 11 western states, at the agencies' headquarters in Washington, D.C., and in electronic elec-tronic form online at the project Web site http:corridoreis.anl. gov. The public may submit comments com-ments in written form to: West-wide West-wide Corridor DEIS; Argonne National Laboratory; 9700 South Cass Avenue, Bldg. 900, Mail Stop 4; Argonne, IL 60439. Written comments also may be faxed to 1-866-542-5904 or submitted electronically using the e-mail form on the project Web site http:corridoreis.anl. Altered dog is $10 for the year. Unaltered dog is $25 for the year. - Licenses are due Jan. 1, 200S & . are late starting Feb. 1,2008. -The lata fee will lie $13 per ; license. Proof of current Rabies Vicdns&n is 5 mandatory at time ofikming. i litis includes Rabies number and expiration date, licenses art - -j currently on sale atthe , j ' Uintah Animal Shelter, Ashley Valley Animal Hospital, and Basin Veterinary Clink (Roosevelt). All entities art represented with Just onetagtiiisyear.lt will be a Uintah Animahontrol&Sheiter Service DistrictHcenietag. Thank you to all who contributed to the Uintah Basin Association of Governments & The Uintah Basin Food Pantries in 2007 By donating food, funds or support! Your continued support and generosity Is making a difference in the community! J.D. Field Services Goodrich Mud Co. Myton Ladies Aid Society Myton Presbyterian Church John R. 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Shivers and Jitters Dollar Tree United States Postal Offices Uintah County Library Uintah Basin Board of Realtors Department of Workforce Services Uintah School District QIC Committee Harris Family Ashley Valley Middle School Maeser Elementary School Sears Anadarko Ron Gardener Duchesne County Library Duchesne Lions Club Baptist Warehouse Thank yuu lo all who donaled anonymously as well. Wo apologize to anyone v.e p.sav lune m!s::cd. As'am thank you for your support - truly ;;p.rrecia!c it! :) 1 h Vernal gov. All comments must be received re-ceived by Feb. 14, to receive full consideration. Written comments and those submitted orally at public hearings hear-ings will be given equal weight when revisingthe draft PEIS into a final document. The records of decision on the final PEIS will amend relevant land use plans for lands managed by the BLM New law replaces living will, power of attorney legislation The Utah Commission on Aging issued a reminder last week that a new law, in effect since Jan. 1, repealed Utah's living will and power of attorney for health care laws. The Advance Health Care Directive Act replaces the living will and power of attorney for health care forms with a single advance health care directive, according to Maureen Henry, executive director of the Utah Commission on Aging. The new law was enacted to make it easier for people to give instructions about their health care wishes. The advance health care directive, which can be completed without a lawyer, allows people to appoint an agent FIELD HOUSE NOTES Formations In common, everyday English, a person might say, "The Red Fleet behind Red Fleet Reservoir areinterestingrockformations." By this they mean that the rocks form a certain distinctive shape. Ageologistwoulduse the word formation differently, perhaps saying, "The Red Fleet behind Red Fleet Reservoir are part of W. Anderson Betty Evans Myton Presbyterian Church Mt. Ranch Smoke House Shonie Barker Soni Crosby Lynn Hall Ben and Gloria Jaramillo Myton Community Lacie Hayes Lynn Loveridge Basin Pharmacy Boyd Young Charles Thompsen Martin Huber Myton American Legion West Elementary Stewart's Market Department of Workforce Services Mary Kettle Questar Elvin Funk Kingsbury Church TOPS Lany Woosley Ardyce Mitchell Bob Edwards Church & Dwight Rita Fletcher Steve & Kathy Pulley Manila Elementary School Pat & Terry Grow Dorothy Ivy Donna Gingell Bob & Charlotte Scott Mark Warren Paul Stricklin Nila Bower Lacey Hayes Sylvia Atwood Peggy Ann Evans & family Ed Parsonage Steve May Betty Hunter Benita Harrison Susan Elms Bill & Beverly Wilcox Lela Lemmon 7-11 Food Stores R.W. Jones Trucking Company Roosevelt Jr. High Utah State University Ann Reynolds N.E.S RISE. Deven Collier Spencer Cheshire Uintah Basin Association of Governments Board of Directors Uintah Basin Community Services & Food Pantry Advisory Board Express corridors and the Forest Service. In most cases, comments being be-ing made at the public hearings around the West, including the one in Salt Lake City, will be available in real-time Webcasts and for later on-demand replay. Information on Webcasts is available on the project Web site http:corridoreis.anl.gov. and choose among end-of-life care options, Henry said. Living wills and powers of attorney signed before Jan. 1 remain valid, but the old forms provided limited choice and did not help when direction was needed most, according to Henry. She encouraged people who are able to complete the new form to do so. The Utah Commission on Aging helped draft the new law. For more information or to get instructions and download the advanced health care directive form go to http:aging.utah. eduutahcoadirectivesindex. html. the Nugget and Chinle formations." forma-tions." Both uses of the word are correct in their own way, but only the second use has any scientific meaning. A formation, to a scientist, is a set of sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous rocks recognized by certain characteristics, and by its position in the rock column. For sedimentary rocks these characteristics charac-teristics commonly include rock type (sandstone, shale, and limestone) lime-stone) or collection of fossils. For example, the Morrison Formation is mostly a soft banded shale with some interbeds of sandstone. Nearly everywhere it contains dinosaur bones of the same types of species (Allosaurus Stop into your nearby H&R For other locations call 1 - 800 H&RB.lock 1607 West Hwy 40 Vernal, Utah 84078 435-789-3335 . . -- . X - 4 . v . . - . - .. m . 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Community activities and conversations surrounding the meth issue in Utah have flourished throughout the first phase of the campaign, which was launched Sept. 24, Church said. "The campaign has impacted citizens across the state and compelled award-winning singer and musician Sarah McLachlan to donate the use of her song, 'Answer' to the phase two television commercial," Church said. The ad uses McLachlan's music through a nostalgic montage that follows sisters through childhood and into and Diplodocus are examples). This is the formation that produced pro-duced the bones of Dinosaur National Monument. In contrast, the Weber Sandstone Sand-stone is recognized by its thick, cliff-forming sandstone with large sweeping cross beds. Position in the area's rock column col-umn is also important; the Morrison Mor-rison is between the Cretaceous Gedar' Mountain Formation (above) and the Jurassic Stump Formation (below). In contrast, the Weber Sandstone is between the Permian Park City Formation (above) and the Pennsylvanian Morgan Formation (below). A formation is named by the first scientist to study and Block location listed below. - HRBLOCK or visit hrblock.com H&R BLOCK' !m "" """ """" "" V ' Laser Hair Removal Skin Rejuvenation for fine lines & wrinkles Vein Therapy for spider veins BASIN CLINIC 379 North 500 Wost. Suito 1A Vernal, Utah 84078 789-1165 of campaign one sister's adult meth use. It concludes with the signature yellow screenshot and the phrase, "Your sister on meth isn't a lost cause. She has you." Because meth use is not limited to urban areas, phase two efforts also include local community involvement. Materials and state resource support have been provided to county administrators and treatment professionals across Utah that will allow them to take the campaign message directly to the citizens in their communities. "Outreach and community involvement are critical to ending meth use in Utah," said Church. "We can stop meth use by working together within our communities, recognizing the signs of meth use and taking action to help a loved one combat their meth use." Methamphetamine use has been a serious, ongoing issue throughout the state of Utah for several years. In fact, according to the state Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, meth was the top illicit drug of choice among all individuals admitted to public treatment programs in Fiscal Year 2006, comprising 30 percent of all treatment admissions. That's an astonishing 400 percent increase in admittance for meth use from 1995 to 2006. The task force was established in January 2006 as a collaborative effort of the governor, state agencies, and the Utah Association of Counties. describe that layer of rock. Usually, the formation is named after a nearby natural or human feature, close to the place where the formation was first studied. The Morrison Formation was first studied near the town of Morrison, Colo. The area where the formation was first studied and described is known as the type locality;' 1 1 " A rock column is the series of formations that is found for one specific location. For example, if you were to drill, or core, a vertical hole in the ground to the oldest formation, the core that came from that vertical hole would represent the rock column for that location. Similarly, if you were to walk through all of the formations exposed in a region, such as Uintah County, those formations would represent the local rock column. The rock column varies from place to place, because certain formations were deposited in some areas, but not in other areas, ar-eas, or are replaced by equivalent formations with different names. The Morrison Formation is only found in Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, and North and South Dakota. The extent of formations reflects the conditions in which they were deposited (ocean, flood-plain, flood-plain, desert, etc.) at a given place and time. So different formations of the same age in different places can be placed on a map to show prehistoric geography and tell a story of past environments - a map of the Jurassic, for instance. in-stance. Because Vernal's geological history was unique, unlike any other place in the world, Vernal's rock column is not duplicated anywhere else. It is unique, like a fingerprint. I I L |