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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 30 Thursday, May 24, 1984 Watch Capitol - WASHINGTON The radioactive Vitro mill tailings in South Salt Lake may be removed to a remote location in Tooele County and federal government will pay 90 percent of the costs, if the state and DCE can prove the tailings pose a health and safety hazard, the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommit tee on Energy and Water Development assured Tuesday night. The committee's 1985 appropriations bill contained report language saying previous testimony and investigation had failed to establish the health issue and federal funding could not be used for removing the tailings, but only to cover and stabilize them at the site. Under pressure from Sen. Jake Garn and the other members of the Congressional delegation. Energy Secretary Donald Hodel had recommended the removal. Gov. Scott Matheson offered for the state to pay 25 percent of the added costs of removal. In a discussion on the House floor, Rep. Dan Marriott, who has made cleaning up the Vitro tailings a personal crusade for more than six years, secured a committment from committee h, chairman Tom Bevill, that the language of the bill's report would not preclude removal if the health and safety case were better made. Bevill said the established formula of 90 percent federal and 10 percent state share of costs would apply to removal. Marriott said the burden is now on the state and DOE to establish the negative health impact of the materials. "DOE will ahve to report to the committee that in deed there is a substantial health risk to stabilization," Marriott explained. "That can be done in writing or otherwise, but DOE and the state can get the funding now if jointly they can make the Marriott predicted the Senate bill would add $8 million to the Vitro tailings funding and combined with the record of the House debate, the problem of Vitro should be solved. case." Marriott said the clarification of the bill's report makes DOE the lead agency for the removal and the state offer to pay a larger share of the cost "is a dead issue." The congressman, during debate, said the tailings "sit in the middle of an area of 700,000 people. They are about four miles from the Capitol and about one mile from the nearest city. Vitro Tailings Get Removal Fund Promise By PAT THORNE Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Utah officials the Senate Energy Tuesday urged and Mineral Resources Committee to adopt a bill which would provide badly needed sand and gravel from public lands for use in roadbuilding in southern Utah. The Bureau of Land Management is now prevented from disposing of surface sand and gravel materials existing on top of unpatented mining claims under an Interior Department interpretation of law. Because of the interpretation, such deposits cannot be sold, removed, or displaced even when a mining claimholder consents to the removal. Because of a critical need for the sand and gravel for roadbuilding in southern Utah, Sen. Jake introduced a bill to Garn, clarify the law to make "mineral material surface resources" eligible to be disposed of by all federal land managers. In testimony, Garn said the U.S. Forest Service, unlike the BLM, is presently and l.as been allowing for the disposal of sand and gravel on National Forests with the consent of the mining claimant. "From nearly all ac counts, this system of disposal works very smoothly in National Forests and protects the rights of mining claimants," he said. The problem is particularly acute in southern Utah, he pointed out, because of numerous speculative mining claims blanketing the area as well as many mineral claims now active. Therefore "local communities find themselves with no legal way to obtain common sand and gravel for road construction or other basic construction activities," he said. Dorothy D. Allen, appearing for Gov. Scott Matheson, said "Hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand and gravel are needed in Southeastern Utah nually ... Current demand and competition for this material is heavy and will undoubtedly inan- crease as the area's energy resources such as coal, uranium, oil and gas, tar sands, and oil shale are developed over the next ten to twenty years." Ray Tibbets of the Grand County Board of Directors for Economic Development in Moab, said the private land mass in his county is only about 3 percent. "Approximately 80 percent of the public lands are located in the Herald Washington Bureau - Sens. Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch, both Tuesday urged the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands to approve their bill which would transfer to Brigham City the property and buildings located at Inthe Intermountain Inter-Tribdian School when the closure of the facility occurs at the end of this month. WASHINGTON h, "This land, encompassing approximately 170 acres, should be conveyed to Brigham City without any compensation to the federal government because, in essence, the city has already paid for the land and the buildings on the site," Garn said. In 1942, the War Department acquired the property from the city for siting an Army hospital. But the city, Garn continued, provided extensive services to the facility including removing all buildings at the site, paving roads, providing sand and gravel for the new buildings and setting a trust fund of $60,000 to purchsae outright the land for the proposed site. Hatch pointed out the continuing impact of the property on the g of Brigham City. "Its advantageous location has made it a prime resource of employment in this part of Utah," he said. "... the local government is best able to detemrine the future well-bein- use of this facility and what role, it will play in the community." Garn said, "If any project, be it private or public, is to successfully follow Intermountain School on the current site, it will need the support of Brigham City. The best way to garner that support is to permit the city to have complete control over the property." Hatch said the entire Utah congressional delegation supports the action as well as the Secretary of Interior. p'tlte II Moab BLM district ... gravel is a resource that is hard to find. "We must all share our resources ... we will get better roads and public service at a much reduced cost," he said. San Juan County Commissioner UNIVERSITY MAIL 798-935- Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - An unknown soldier from the Vietnam War will be buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Sen. Jake Garn, announced. In 1973, Congress passed a law requiring that a Vietnam era soldier be interred at the site. 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