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Show - Also in this section: Obituaries B2 Opinions B4 Sports a - Thursday Local. B5-B- 8 Oct. 26, 1989. Be Geneva's extension for treatment plant upsets committee By SHARON MORREY Herald Staff Writer An innovative $5 million biologi cal wastewater treatment plant Geneva Steel has promised to build stirred up the waters at the Air Conservation Committee meeting Oct. 25. Frustrated EPA representatives and citizens from Salt Lake Community Action and Utah's Clean Air Coalition opposed a revision approval request from Geneva. Alan Miller, with the Environmental Center, which is a member of the coalition, said the stamp of approval was given to Geneva's early plans from the Sierra Club Escape reveals security problem and others at his urging. "Now listening to another revision and I don't know if the revision is justified or not, I'm put in an uncomfortable position. We thought this was a done deal," said Miller. Geneva Steel agreed to put in the treatment facility following a Feb. 1988 air standard violation caused by coke flushing liquid poured onto hot slag material to cool the slag. At that time Geneva agreed to come up with plans and specifica- tions for the plant within five months and begin the construction within 18 months. In December 1988, the steel comexten pany asked for a four-mon- r""T I th . 4 Geneva's percentage 'iiril'iiiiimilll!llMMWI IIJIiitliiillMllLiiiliJIi fil U Jack Jessup, respond more effectively to the many different "publics," or special interest groups, which all feel their projects or needs are the most important. Utah is currently forming a strategic plan through meetings with special interest groups throughout the state. Karras encouraged those present to con-ta- rt the House of Representatives office if they wanted to contribute information to the strategic plan being formulated. - Long-terplanning is a process of ertenin? the status m m Steel's primary contribution to PM10 pollution down to 41.8 percent and secondary particulates up. Introduced Wednesday to the Air Conservation Committee, the new reflects data gathered pie-cha- rt from the 1988-8- 9 winter season. Wood burning represents 16.5 percent of the apportionment read from the Lindon monitor, sulfates 5.7, nitrates 22.9, road dust 4.2, diesel fuel 3.3 and automobiles 1 percent. BAQ modeler David Prey said automobiles contribute to the nitrates and it's uncertain yet as to Road Dust 4.2 Burning 16.5Sf Sulfates 5.7 Nitrates 22.9 Average source contribution estimates for the 1 9881989 winter episodes at the Lindon monitoring sites as a percent of; measured PM 1 0 mass. Source: Bureau Of Air Quality lates. 20-d- Herald PbotoTrent Nelson 'x' marks the windows that rapist Jack Jessup jumped from at the Utah State Hospital Tuesday night An third-flo- or tain this responsiblity is part of their treatment process, Chilton said. "We desperately need additional staffing as well as a new building, but what we really need is a way to secure the buildings we already have," said Chilton. "We don't want to look like a prison, but we would like the courts to watch who at least until we they send here can become more secure." According to Earnshaw, the big Related stories, Page B2 quo into the future. "There is inherently no incentive for unconventional thinking or systematic innovation in traditional e planning," says a summary Karras provided for his audience. However, strategic planning re views current and past situations and reaches toward a future vision or goal which may be significantly different from the present situation. "In strategic versus long range, it's where you're going to go versus where you want to go," Karras said. Cedar City had financial problems when its iron mines dosed, Karras said. "That city decided it wanted to become something, and it put together its resources to do it" The highly successful Shakespearean Festival is the result of Cedar long-rang- City's strategic planning, be said. The Olympics would be a course of strategic planning for the entire state, he said. "I believ e the Olympics is a course you can ride to make Utah the winter sports capital," Karras sail "In the year 2020, what will the headlines say about Utah? What win Utah be best known for?" issue for the State Hospital over the past few years has been to ask the government for increased funding to improve security. "We have a very flimsy security system, and at the same time we're being asked to house very dangerous people," he added. When the patients are ready to be released they are brought up before the psychiatric review board for an evaluation, but the board is not in operation right now. by Geneva Steel to conduct fingerprint studies of air pollutants. Prey said he did not have all the raw stack test data he needed from Geneva. Geneva environmental engineer Jim Starley reacted to that statement and asked why that was said. BAQ staff member Monte Keller said the bureau has the emission numbers but not the back up data. BAQ director Burnell Cordner explained that since the steel plant was not up to full production before the 1988-8- 9 winter, it made sense to use the latter data. The 1985-8year may not have been representative, nor would 1386-8explained Cordner, since the plant was in startup mode until the fall of 1387. The EPA guidelines say a moni- 6 7, Suspects held for SUSPECTS CAUGHT - Two recent burglaries involved Grant's Plants, Quality RV, PegThe gy's Bridal, and a Montessori school. Brothers Jason hie, 19, Orem, and Lewis Ivie, 18, Orem, were arrested in connection with the burglaries, said Detective Doug Edwards of the Orem Police De- partment. Police officials said they had suspected the brothers all along, and when Edwards went to the boys' home to question them, he reportedly observed some of the stolen merchandise in the living room. When questioned about the merchandise, one brother explained that he didn't do anything but that bis brother had stolen the items, said Edwards. Oil and other merchandise was recovered, but the cash that was taken from the businesses was not there. Charges were being filed. t particularly since there is not as 17-1- 8, Extensions for industries that have asked for additional time (as well as Geneva) have been granted until January, he said. By June 1990, the pieces would be pulled together, said Cordner, including a look at enforcement policies. In August, more public hearings on the final SIP will be scheduled in Utah County. By the end of September, the SIP will be ready for the governor's submission to the EPA, said Cordner. Cordner said there are still con- cerns over industry's timetable, existing legal obligation requiring industry to bring their plans in by January 1990. past two weeks. Bunce's rest home, Police beat The police said they believe there is another suspect involved. A RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY home in Lindon was burglarized of western equipment while the owners were deer hunting. At 421 N. 150 East, saddles, breast collars, bridles, saddle blankets, and a Honda generator were stolen, according to a Pleasant Grove police spokeman. The items, kept in a storage shed on the owner's property, were valued at $220. When the residents returned from deer bunting over the weekend they went into the storage shed and discovered that the merchandise had been stolen, said the spokesman. A cash box containing THEFT the money of rest home patients was stolen sometime within the - ; . Director of Environmental Health, Ken Alkema, suggested the . industries be given a range to work within. "It's important for us to get the information back to us by Janu' ' ary," said Alkema. . Hospitals offering bags for Halloween ; Utah Valley's Intermountain Health Care hospitals and Insta-Carare offering free Halloween safety bap to the of public as well as the those bags on Halloween night, and ' '. the following day. These bags can be obtained by asking at the mam lobbies of Utah Valley Regional; Medical Center, Orem Community Hospital, American Fork Hospital,' es 1535 S. 500 West, Provo, was the site of the theft A money box containing $1,-1in cash which belonged to the patients was kept in the office, said Capt. Duane Fraser of the Provo Police Department. A hoBUSINESS BURGLARY tel in Pleasant Grove reportedly burglarized of (687. It was reported on Monday that someone had entered through an opened window and taken the money from out of a cash drawer of the Maple Hills Office at 411 E. State Road, said a police spokesman. The owner reportedly was gone for a short time. When he returned, he noticed that both the east and the west windows were opened. A CRIMINAL MISCHIEF Pleasant Grove home was found with obscenities spray painted all over the outside walls. This occurred in the area of 421 E. 730 South, and was reported on Monday. - at trick-or-tre- at -- Springville Family Care Ceqter, and the Spanish Fork Family Care Center. The fluorescent orange bags z are designed to reflect light during the evening hours and have several . safety tips listed on them for chfi-dr- en to follow while ing Halloween night. Children and their parents can bring the bags to the UVRMC, OCH and AFH radiology departmenti for on Halloween night until 10 p.m. They can also be the following day during regular hours, although, all emergencies and scheduled patients will receive trick-or-trea- t- priority. For more information about the bags or the call 379-720- Sorenson offers to donate land to Wasatch County By SONNI SCHWTNN teber City Cwmpoadtnt HEBER CITY James Sorenson oas offered to donate 106 acres, for right of way, to Wasatch The new highway, opened :hree weeks ago, connects Heber Qty with Kamas along the south side of what will be the Jordanelle Reservoir. However, the county canmission may torn down the gift. On Monday they told Clyde Smith, representing Sorenson, that they would probably announce a decision during next Route County. A Monday's commission meeting. They said they needed time to study the offer, whatever strings may be attached, how the gift could influence certain other situations, and get some legal opinions from the county attorney, Steve Hansen. Smith insisted there are no strings attached to the gift whatsoever. But Sorenson has been paying greenbeJt taxes on the property, based on about 29 percent of its actual assessed value, Jeff Brad-shacounty clerk explained. He said when greenbelt property w, ' However, without a firm design , value or apportionment set, the ' ACC and BAQ acknowledged it is difficult for industry to make specific plans. ; trick-or-tre- sus- burglaries. Cordner also introduced the tentative schedule for State Implementation Plan hearings. 1990, the BAQ and January the ACC plan hearings in Provo and Orem on the full SIP. break-in- s pects were arrested Wednesday in connection with four Orem business Herald Graphic Bob Pric . "Those haven't been assigned tored source should be constant and under normal operation, added BAQ yet," said Prey. The chemical mass balance ap- planner Bob Dalley. The filters from that time used for data collecportionment is based on a tion from stack promay have deteriorated too, he average developed files collected by NEA, a firm hired said, and secondaries lost. needs strategic plan ities?" Strategic planning sets priorities the state can work on with the resources it has without creating more projects than the state's funds can cover, Karras said. It can also help the state Auto 1.0 which sources contribute what amounts to the secondary particu- Speaker says Utah 45-da- Geneva 41.8 Herald Staff Writer The new numbers from the Bureau of Air Quality have Geneva Hospital Public Information Officer Jaoina Chilton. iThe current escape of a sex long-rang- Total Apportionment Percentages By SHARON MORREY ;The buildings currently being used on the hospital grounds were originally constructed in the 1920s. '."Back then there wasn't much nfced for security," said Utah State By CHRISTI C. EVANS Herald Staff Writer Utah needs a strategic plan to meet the needs of the future, instead of depending on come mon planning, slid Nolan Karras, speaker of the Utah House of Representatives. Karras spoke Wednesday during a leadership conference at Sundance sponsored by the Provo Orem Chamber of Commerce. "The legislature has become a body that does or does not address the needs of the state," Karras said. "This is calenmy concern; in a y dar session, how do you make sure vou deal with all the prior- PM-1- 0 for PM-1- 0 down again Herald Staff Writer Has the Utah State Hospital outgrown its ancient security measures or have the patients become increasingly tougher to handle. the ; According to staff members, problem is a little of both. proved how easy it is to escape if a patient has the desire. Windows that aren't kept locked and covered wjth a flimsy screen imbedded in soft wood are all that remains between a patient and freedom. !The Utah State Hospital currently has 335 patients in a hospital which is allowed to have a maximum of 343 patients. The Hyde building, which is where Jessup was housed, has 27 sexual offenders on one half of one floor alone. Between 10 to 15 of these men would be considered dangerous to the community if they were to escape, said Dallas Earn-shaadministrative director of the Sexual Offender Forensic Unit The Hyde building doesn't have bars over any of the bedroom windows including the first floor, yet the hospital is continually asked by the courts to house more and more of these dangerous patients, said Chilton. It would cost $150,000 to secure the windows on the Hyde building alone. There are an additional four buildings that house patients. A patient posse is used to help combat the undermanned staff, she added. The patient posse is made up of those patients who have proven themselves and are moving up the ladder of recovery to eventually be released from the hospital. To ob- - people and industries who try to meet their dealines. We urge that you do not grant this variance." EPA official Maurius Gedgaudaa said the agency is "in a peculiar situation not having seen the revision plans." "We have a similar problem to that of Alan Miller, on the process. Also, if Geneva won't agree no$ on what is violation of the consent decree, it won't get any easier as we approach these new deadlines," said Gedgadius. A motion to accept the revision failed. A subsequent motion to table the discussion and decision until the ACC Nov. 21 meeting passed. Pollution numbers released By ANTON GARRITY offender patient, fied their approval of the concept and design and indicated that the highest priority will be given to swift processing of the Geneva plans. ACC member Janice Miller said she didn't like the fact that the schedule had "slipped by seven months." Bureau of Air Quality director Bumell Cordner said it was also unclear as to whether quenching would stop once the treatment plant were in operation. "Again we wait until the last second," said Karen Silva with the Salt Lake Community Action Program. "It's very unfair to the sion since the negotiations for patGeneva environmental engineer ent rights were holding up the Jim Starley explained at the Wednesday meeting that Geneva process. The Air Conservation Committee "would appreciate a little considerapproved the extension in January ation. 1989. Plans were then submitted in "We really haven't changed the dates. We intend to hit the deadMay. The new extension request lists lines. But this is a system. It's never been built and August 1990 as the date for mechanical completion and March 1991 for operated anywhere. It's not clear-cu- t all the way through." operational status. If Geneva should miss those Starley explained that the Water deadline dates, a fine of up to Pollution Control Committee still $10,000 per day would be imposed, has to approve the plans but Genealong with monthly status reports va "in good faith" has already to the ACC, plus $3,000 more per ordering equipment for the plant. Water Pollution Control Commitday beyond the mechanical completion date. tee members at the meeting veri changes hands, taxes for the past son is asking for any concessions in five years must be paid to make up return for the property is not the the difference between what was real issue. What the commissioners paid and what would have been are concerned about is how accepting the property could affect a case paid based on the assessed value. The commissioners said whether involving Sorenson, the U.S. Bureau the county or Sorenson pays the of Reclamation, arid another parcel taxes due on the property must be of Jordanelle property. Utah laws determined. No one could estimate allow discussions about pending litithe amount, but Smith said the gation to be discussed in closed, executive sessions. Therefore, no property had qualified for greenbelt tax benefits for no more than two information has been released to years. No other "strings" were the public about the federal case and how the proposed gift could specifically discussed. affect it. However, whether or not Soren t a ; ; ; |
