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Show Skywalk through a forest of Joshua trees. But the tribe hopes becomes the centerpiece of a budding tourism industry that includes helicopter tours, river rafting, a cowboy town and a museum of i Continued from A I to step onto the bridge during Tuesday's ceremony. The Hualapai, whose reservation is about 90 miles west of Grand Canyon National Park, allowed Las Vegas developer David Jin to build the $30 million Skywalk in hopes of creating a unique attraction on their section of the canyon. "To me, I believe this is going to help us. We don't get any help from the outside, so, why not?" said Dallas Quasula Sr., 74, a tribal elder who was at the Skywalk. "This is going to be our bread and butter." The tribe will include access to the deck in a variety of tour packages ranging from $49.95 to $199.00. They'll allow up to 120 people at a time to look down to the canyon floor from a vantage point more than twice as high as the world's tallest buildings. The Skywalk is scheduled to open to the public March 28. To reach the transparent deck, tourists must drive 14 miles on twisty, unpaved roads Indian replica homes. Robert Bravo Jr., operations manager of the Hualapai tourist attractions called Grand Canyon West, said he hopes the Skywalk will double tourist traffic to the reservation this year, from about 300,000 visitors to about 600,000. In later years, he hopes it brings in about 1 million tourists. "It's a great feeling today. Once everybody sees this, and it's televised, they're going to know to come here," Bravo said. Architect Mark Johnson said the Skywalk can support the weight of a few hundred people and will withstand wind up to 100 mph. The observation deck has a glass bottom and has been equipped with shock absorbers to keep it from bouncing like a diving board as people walk on it. The Skywalk has sparked debate on and off the reservation. Many Hualapai (pro- - Wednesday, March 21, 2007 HERALD DAILY AS nounced WAUnih-pk- ) worry about disturbing nearby burial sites, and environmentalists have blamed the tribe for transforming the majestic canyon into a tourist trap. Hualapai leaders say they weighed those concerns for years before agreeing to build the Skywalk. With a third of the tribe's 200 members living in poverty, the tribal government decided it needs the tourism dollars. Dolores Honga, 71, a Hualapai tribal elder, watched with interest Tuesday as invited guests and media flooded the rim, many of them carrying buffet plates loaded with shrimp and chicken kabobs. Honga said she used to ride horses around this remote patch of grassland near the rim Her grandparents once herded cattle out here. "I still don't agree with what's going on here," Honga said. "There's so many memories here. This was my playground." Many Hualapais said they had no say in whether to build the Skywalk, and many have no idea how much the tribe will Waste make in return. ; Jin spent several years persuading the tribe to build the observation deck, and he fronted the money to build the Skywalk. According to the tribe, Jin will give it to the Hualapai in exchange for a cut of the profits. Jin wouldn't speak to reporters about his financial settle-mer- it Continued from Al A state attorney said Energy Solutions chose some peculiar language in the letter delivered to regulators Friday. But Assistant Attorney General Fred Nelson said the company's deal with the governor never required Energy Solutions to permanently renounce ambitions to dump more waste at dive, a railroad spur 72 miles west of Nelson offered another : interpretation: They're not pursuing their license amendment so long as Governor Huntsman is there. If reflected in 2008, Huntsman, a Republican, would be in office through 2012. EnergySolutions made the bargain after Huntsman threatened to use the state's veto power to keep the eight-stat- e Northwest Interstate Waste Compact from continuing to send waste to EnergySolutions after its dump fills to currently Salt Lake City. That nuanced position went approved volumes and before unmentioned when Huntsman any expansion. But in another twist that heralded a widely publicized came to light Tuesday, Encompromise with Energy Solutions, which specializes in ergySolutions doesnt take waste from the compact, decommissioning nuclear-powwhich was authorized by Conplants and transporting, processing and disposing gress to dispose of radioacof waste. tive waste in Alaska, Hawaii, "We thought they were Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington. going to completely take the Instead, EnergySolutions request off the table," said takes other states' medical Vanessa Pierce, executive director of the Healthy Enwaste, contaminated soil and assorted debris from nuclear-powvironment Alliance of Utah, known as HEAL Utah. plants and decommis"What this indicates is that sioned weapons depots. Huntsman's legal advisers they have the intention of coming back once Huntsman still maintain EnergySolutions is out of office to resubmit draws its authority to take their expansion plans. If they waste from the eight-statcompact. really want to make good, EnergySolutions disagrees they'd withdraw that request that it needs the compact's without caveats," she said. permission to accept waste EnergySolutions spokesfrom Qirtside the compact but man Mark Walker offered has never failed to get it, no comment Tuesday on the company's future plans other Walker said he couldnt . than to say it maintained immediaf ery confirm the in negotiations with the governor's office that it could company's position on that return and ask for an legal point. In the company's letter to regulators, Rogers said EnergySolutions was withdrawing its license amendment "with- with the tribe. "The terms are confidential, but David will profit for the next 25 years from the Skywalk," said Steve Beattie, chief financial officer of the Grand Canyon Resort Corp., which oversees the tribe's tourist businesses. Construction crews spent two years building the , walkway. They drilled steel anchors 46 feet into the limestone rim to hold the deck in place. Earlier this month, they welded the Skywalk to the anchors after pushing it past the edge using four tractor trailers and an elaborate system of Low-Lev- er pulleys. er On the Net. Skywalk; http:www. grandcanyonskywalk.com e Senator Orrin Hatch endorses Mitt Romney for president THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mitt SALT LAKE CITY Romney, seeking the Republican nomination for president, said he has picked up an endorsement from Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch. co q f E & "People in Utah remember well his turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics," Hatch said in a statement released Monday by the Romney campaign. "His record as governor is equally remarkable. At a time of unprecedented challenges, "Senator Hatch is a leading authority on judicial matters and has worked to cut down the size of government and let we need to elect an innovative problem solver like Governor Romney," Hatch said, referring to Romney's one term as governor of Massachusetts. Americans keep hard-workin-g more of what they earn. I am honored to have him on my campaign," Romney said. Sea Bob Bennett, already is in Romney's camp, the campaign said. U.S. d. out prejudice." That is a common courthouse phrase, meaning a case can be refiled after being been dismissed or withdrawn, but it's inappropriate for a regulatory matter, Nelson said. EnergySolutions also asked the Division of Radiation Control to preserve the case file. Nelson, however, said EnergySolutions would have to "make a new application" to expand its dump. "We'll send back a letter clarifying the arrangement . that they'd have to submit a new application," he said. 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