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Show CASTLE VALLEY TIMES HOLIDAY TIMES Castle Valley, Utah . Volume 3, Number12 - December15,1994 - December already? Castle Valley ///1 Players Mark your calendars for , Pace Hill Land CV Questionnaire SATURDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 2 P.M. AT THE Sale Application CHURCH. The Castle Valley Players Application to purchase the 540 acres of State Institutional Trust Land at the bottom of Castle Valley was recently initiated and notice published in the Moab Times-Independent. This parcel encompasses the left peak of the Pace Hills as you are looking down the valley, almost touches Castle Creek on the northwest, and runs down to the old Mayberry property now owned by The Nature Conservancy. At this time the Trust Lands Administration (State Lands) is soliciting competing applications for sale of this land and is accepting comments on whether or not it is in the best interests of the Trust to sell this land. For over a year now the FDA has been talking about putting out a questionnaire on the issues relative to will present two plays. Our younger troupe will be treating ou to a zany version of Little Red Ri ing Hood, with Corryn, Sarah, Hillary, Katrina, Rebecca, Chandra, and Mark in sterling roles. Our older troupe (Kristen, Mara, Lila, Shade, and Bruce) will be presenting a murder mystery, with some unexpected detectives. This is theater at its finest. Come and see how our own Castle Valley Players have broadened from last year’s vaudeville into professional actors. No greater show in any Utah town! The acceptance of an application The Fight for Round Mountain Part II The front page of the December 8 issue of Moab’s Times-Independent featured a picture of the decommissioned Atlas uranium processing plant in its current phase of dismantling. The caption reported that members of the Utah Radiation Control Board and Atlas officials recently toured the plant and tailings pond. A public hearing was convened last week to discuss the Atlas proposal to cap the 9.6-million-ton tailings pile in place. Atlas would have us believe this is a “done deal”. It is their contention that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted their findings and approved the plan. My phone calls to discover where I might find a copy of Atlas’s completed Environmental Impact Study were does not mean that the land will be sold. The Trust Lands Administration will have to do a lengthy evaluation to decide what is the appropriate thing to do with this land. (Jan Parmenter, Trust administrator in Moab, told me that the application last year for the large block of State Land around the CV fire station has been cancelled. They did not feel ready to sell such a large block of land without more planning in this area.) If you would like to submit comments regarding the sale of the land around Pace Hills, they must be in by Dec. 30th. Address your comments to: Trust Lands Administration (PS 6995), 1165 South Highway 191, #5, Moab UT 84532. x2: .;i unprofitable. This document is completed and filed with the NRC, but in fact the public is not allowed to see it. More MOUNTAIN on Page 6 % fi. Z —Jack Campbell second dwellings, guest houses, and temporary dwellings. Until now there haven’t been any volunteers to help with this huge project, but the moratorium on temporary dwellngs has pushed the importance of this questionnaire to the forefront, and a few of us are getting the ball rolling. If we can get this questionnaire made up, printed, sent out, returned, and correlated before the end of February—phewl—the town and Planning and Zoning will hopefully have a better idea what property owners want before the end of the moratorium in April. This is a complex subject and one that raises the blood pressure of most people in the valley. We invite EVERYONE to give their input in the form of questions they would like to see asked in the questionnaire. It is hoped that in this way we can cover the issues and concerns everyone has relating to second dwellings, guest houses, and temporary dwellings. Your input is important, so please drop your questions into the FDA mail box or the green ammo can that will be at the front gate, before December 3lst. —Chris Swanson |