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Show tl?c Page B8 tElmeg-nbgpgnbe- Thursday, June 3, 2004 nt San Juan, New Mexico power plant charged with Clean Air Act violations Charging that the San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, New Mexico is not operated in a manner consistent with good air pollution control practices for minimizing emissions, the Grand Canyon Trust and the Sierra Club have y notice of their filed a Service Public intent to sue Mexico New (PNM) Company of for additional violations of the Clean Air Act. The groups filed their first suit against PNM for Clean Air Act violations at San Juan in May 2002. Since we filed our origi60-da- 0 0 a .i O si ae nt j Moab S2 Pm AutflfMI Hama WadrHh 5 http H www moabtimes com Search lf Moab, . l lindn June 2004 ( i 1mrgr-i- u., ; front page1-"-' I!:..:-- " Your n.irt Mi'Ml Aq, HERE' I's'h Search th Web Esssn YOUR Vklud front Puje i Here co!U09 c gwedMated f Coppw cofroy'f tSiUtCjAW Loral Wet and Wild at Red Rock-- . ypz r yatbjo T5ST3 1. Vale latjf fAirtuaife. 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UDOH injury prevention specialists have studied helmet use over the last 10 years. While slightly more adults and preschoolers are wearing helmets, Utah youth ages 9 continue to leave theirs at 1994-200- 7525 , 5 Wheels Grand County School Sports & News Breaking News! Searchable News Archive and so much more! creases and decreases in load causes excessive amounts of unhealthy pollutants to be discharged and is simply unacceptable, Moore said. The more pollution this plant emits the more likely it contributes to respiratory problems, acid rain, impaired visibility in national parks and global warming, he added. San Juan is a four unit, 1,800 megawatt coal-fire- d electricity generating power plant operated by PNM and by Tucson Electric Power and parent UniSource Energy Corporation, Generation and Transmission Association, Southern California Public Power Authority, Public Power Agency, the City of Farmington, New Mexico, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, the City of Anaheim, California, and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. The notice encourages an exchange of information between the parties and offers to discuss a settlement prior to litigation being initiated. court. The notice alleges that PNM has continued to violate the opacity limit in San Juans permit after the filing of the 2002 complaint. The notice also charges that PNM knowingly purchases and burns coal in the plants boilers with an ash content exceeding the design specifications of the facility and the capacity of its pollution control equipment to handle evidenced by excessive emissions recorded by the plants own smokestack monitor data. The notice also alleges that PNM has been operating the power plant as a facility even not was it though designed to be operated in that manner. Changes in load also cause the power plant to emit excessive amounts of pollution. We have recently learned in our current litigation that PNM has not operated the plant in a manner to minimize air pollution. The decision to burn high ash content coal combined with frequent in ed Tri-Sta- te load-followi- M-S-- R Utah ranks in national top ten for bike deaths; Grand County number one in state A new fiocfe, caH435.259.7525 , j , r txibzni libtp UTAH Tuesday for . Articles , nal case in 2002, PNM has continued to exceed its pollution limits at the San Juan power plant. This notice letter will allow us to pursue PNMs violations between May 2002 and the present to protect not only the people living in the region but the skies above them, stated Rick Moore, associate director of the Grand Canyon Trust. The groups first case against PNM may only cover violations that occurred up to the time their complaint was filed in May of 2002, according to a recent ruling by the home. We are very concerned about young cyclists because they are the ones getting into the majority of crashes with motor vehicles, said Gary Mower, study author and UDOH bicycle safety coordinator. 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