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Show (The Page A2 Continued from Page A1 Continued from Page A I the mil. strongly complained I'lMlT wrote to the city teruativea wa k City Manager Donna Metili r announced a new plan for future paradea The moat direct alternative route through town is to take aouth-taiuntraffic off of Highway 191 at Fifth West, take it down to Kane near Mi I re He also confirmed another, White Mesa, are shipped by rail to Cisco, then transferred onto trucks, which haul them down Highway 191 through the heart of Moab then to the mill After the material is dumped, the empty containers are hauled back to Cisco and shipped to Tonawanda where they are used City .staff la gan working on Cretk. and again Both Ctah State regulators and mill representatives say the hot material found on the outside surface of the containers was probably radioactive mud They say the mud most likely was splashed up there after the containers were cleaned at the null Neither the regulators nor the company characterized the containers as posing a significant danger to the public But Hack Creek Ranch resort owner Ken Sleight has been ringing alarm bells about those incidents and other problems at the mill He gave a report on the situation to tfie San Juan County Commission last week, the commissioners dismissed his concerns. Sleight had heard rumors about enter the highway tonald Hut according to Metzler, fifth West, scheduled to undergo major renovation this year, is not wide enough, nor in good enough shape to aeenmniodate heavy trucks, though the stree t can aafely carry automo hile s and light true ks Metrler said the city dende-- to re route during parades pasaenger traffic along Fifth West, and to take heavy truek traTic further up Main Street, to First North, where the trui ks w ill then turn east to Fourth Fast, the n head south past the high si hool rejoining the highway That parades, which in years entered Main Street at Fourth North, can continue to assemble at Swanriy City Hark Hut the- first few block of the parade route will be south along First West, turning east on Center Street entering Main Street From there, the parades will continue south to Cranium Avenue and disa rse at the middle schiail parking lot, as usual the city and The deal I'D )T w ill also allow the Christmas light parade, though I 'DOT rules say event s on their highw ays should take plaee during daylight fiours me-ati- problems at White Mesa and emailed Utahs Division of Radiological Control in February. In DRC s reply, Sleight learned that not only was the rumor he'd heard true, but there had been other incidents as well. During a telephone interview Saturday, Bill Sinclair, director of DRC, confirmed that he wrote Sleight about White Mesa. He also said there were three contaminated-containe- r incidents that occurred in February and March. But there was one as late as a couple of weeks ago," he added. "Boston Box incident gen-erall- y The Grund County High School class reunion for classes 1948 through and guests coming upon Saturday, May 27. Graduate's, are cordially invited to get involved. The Class of 1950 will be celebrating their 50th reunion, and longtime Moab educator Merlyn Maxwell will lie honored. The reunion will begin at 11 a m. and run until 3 p.m. at the Civic Center Those who attend should bring their own lunch and drink. The event will start again at 7 p in., with visiting, dancing, karaoke and snacking Snacks and soft drinks will be furnished. 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FBI: (801 ) Uttrfi Utah Division of Secunties 530-660- A it (801) 5245796 Exchange Commission (801) Free Proof of Funds letter of Intent rustic sttvia ot tow iamk. tm AMO THE UTAH (801) UTAH DEPARTMENT 400 579-- 1 Securities Division of Consumer ASSOCUnON 0( COMMERd Public Moiices , v ' Protect Your Right to Know NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE The following described property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, payable in lawful money of the United States, at the Grand County Courthouse, 125 East Center, Moab, Utah, on June 1 5. 2000, at 12.15 p.m,, for the purpose ot foreclosing a Trust Deed dated January 4, 1999 and executed by Michael W. Kissell in favor of Diversified Conduit, Inc., covering the following real property located in Grand County: Parcel 1:Lot 14, Block V. EVANS SUBDIVISION, according to the official plat thereof. Parcel 2: Beginning at the SE corner Lot 14, Block V of Evans Subdivision, Section 36, T25S, R21E, SLBM, and ceeding thence pro- N. 20 deg. 17' W. 60.0 feet, thence N. 69 deg. 43' E. approximately 25.9 feet to a chain link fence, thence with said fence S. 18 deg. 12' E. approximately 60.0 feet, thence S. 69 deg 43' W. 23 6 feet to the point ot beginning Together with ail the improvements now or hereafter erected on the property, and all easements, appurtenances, and fixtures now or hereafter a part of the property. The address of the property is purported to be 512 Cliffview Drive, Moab, UT 84532. The undersigned disclaims liability for any error in the address. The present owner is reported to be Michael W. Kissell. Bidders must tender to V. the trustee a $5,000.00 deposit at the sale and the balance of the purchase price by 1200 noon the day following the sale. The purchase price must be paid to Lundberg & Associates in the form of a wire transfer, cashier's check or certified funds. Cash payments are not accepted. DATED: May 16, 2000. sScott Lundberg, Trustee (801) Case No. 16356 Loan No. 11038328 THIS COMMUNICATIONS tS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, L&A AND ANY INFORMATION 08TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Published Times-lndependen- White Mesa soil The slipped past two checkpoints: one at the Cisco site, and one at the mill It was then dumped in with the radioactive waste. The error was discovered some days later," possibly as much as a week later, and immediately reported to botn Sinclair's office and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Sinclair says he has told Interd national Uranium Corporation, which owns the mill, to get it out of there But seven months later, the soil that came from The Boston Tunnel Project, still sits at White Mesa caught in a regulatory backwater. IUC President .Ron Hochstein says his company is closing in on a plan to dispose of the material. Were working with the NRC, the state, I T. Corp (the contractor at the site in Tonawanda) and the transportation contractor, MHF, on a segregation plan. Were hoping to have resolution of the situation within four to six weeks." The "Boston Box incident as it has become known, did not cause Sinclair to be concerned for public safety But the fact the container was routed to White Mesa in the first place and subsequently slipped past two checkpoints is unsettling, he says. In all my days dealing with radioactive materials. I've never known of ar.y instance that's this bizarre." Safety implications? Do the contaminated containtaken ers, together with the Boston last fall point to anything amiss at White Mesa? It appears theyve had some problems," Sinclair admits. IUCs Hochstein downplays any possibility of danger from the problems. He says both MHF, which manages the offloading site in Cisco, and White Mesa have instituted new protocols" to check shipments as they arrive to make sure theyre what they should be. And crews at White Mesa are now reportedly following a different procedure in washing out the containers. They now get two external washes, a more thorough visual check" and truck drivers use a different route in leaving the mill property with the empties. The CEO says the majority of those new protocols were instituted in February, shortly after the first of the containers were discovered in New York. But does that mean the contaminated containers discovered later, up to two weeks ago, were pro- way. & Protection j 530-661- iajkers ers and accidentally shipped to ways possible those containers were already in the railroad system prior to enacting the new safety procedures, he answers. And, he insists, his company has had no reports of any releases" which means no one has called in about dried radioactive mud falling off a truck as it rolls down the high- Guoronfeed Returns Every Month Risk related incident that took place last October A container of hazardous material from Boston was mistaken for one of the Tonawanda contain- cessed under the new rules? Hochstein said without tracing the paperwork, he did not know. It is al- ample tost. Does your possible investment mention: LJ un- Box incident and a tipped container Class plan joint reunion May 27 Pot your 'great dwT to If Thursday, May 18, 2000 nt Air show was success Toxic boxes trucked through town fha0rtdcncdUte Thm cEimrs-3nbcprnbr- in The t, Moab, Utah, May 18, 25 and June 1, 2000. Further, he says, IUC cant be sure that the radioactive material even originated at White Mesa. Many of the truck drivers park their rigs at home, including the container. For all his company knows, the material could have come from a truck drivers yard. We havent totally discounted the fact that some of this mud may have been picked up at other sites. A lot of these people have been in uranium mining for years." After all, he adds, something could have fallen off a truck into their yards years ago, then splashed up onto the containers years later. Also, he continues, the radioactive level of the material was close to background radiation in the area. And yet, IUC is "taking it very seriously, even though it was very small amounts," he says. Alternate feeding frenzy? Hochstein also confirmed his company has received notice that the NRC approved its application to receive further shipments of "alternate feed" materials from a large cleanup site in St. Louis. IUC also has two other applications pending one for a site in Tennessee, and another for the Linde site, part of the complex of sites in Tonawanda that includes the Ashland 1 and 2 sites which are currently being shipped to White Mesa. The Linde site was part of the weapons production facility of the secret Manhattan Project. But Sinclair says, even if the NRC approves the license application, and the decommissioned Linde facility material is shipped through Moab to White Mesa, he doesnt think that material will be substantially different from the Ashland 1 and 2 material if Sinclair adds the NRC has the NRC has done a good enough job of screening the application. no bot- tom limit virtually any detectable amount of uranium in waste material makes it eligible to be disposed of in an active tailings pond. Sinclair also said his office, upon advice from legal counsel, has decided not to appeal a recent NRC ruling that upholds the general practice of "alternate feed processing He said DRC lawyers didnt think they could win in District Court. Utah has opposed the "alternate feed" practice, w hich regulators view as simply an end run around state laws that control the disposal of nuclear waste within Utah. The NRC has said any nuclear waste can be processed" at an operating uranium mill. And But Sinclair still maintains that White Mesa, is a uranium mill that's acting like a waste facility And hes concerned a trend developing with other L'tah uranium mills. The Shootanng facility at Ticaboo Canyon also wants to start radioactive accepting wastes. Sinclair says that trend is no accident. Its become a trend because the NRC has allowed it to low-lev- low-lev- low-lev- be." A Continued from Page A 1 i have it up and running around July 27. Air Affair 2000 In other airport-relate- d news, Dalla said this year's air show went exceptionally well. Though hard figures on attendance were not yet available, various sources estimated that about 2,000 people caught all or part of the daylong event. The Lions Club, one of the perennial food vendors at the show, reported a slight drop in sales from Dalla said that previous years. But because there were been have may four more vendors than before. The number of s appeared to be of below that previous years, slightly makw ith about 100 i fly-in- accident Monday evening sends people to hospital Three-ca- r ing A three-ca- r accident two miles south of Moab on Highway 191 sent several people to the hospital early Monday evening. None were seriously injured. A Moab woman and her two kids were southbound in their green and white pickup aiound 6 p.m. when they stopped to turn left onto San Juan Road. They were hit from behind by a tan Ford Ranger pickup Robert Johnson of Moab. Johnsons vehicle then driven by traveled across the center line and sideswiped a northbound, white Chevrolet Malibu driven by two vacationing women from Munich, Ger- many. Johnson and the woman driving the pickup, along with her two children, age seven and eight, were transported by ambulance to Allen Memorial Hospital where they were treated and released. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Ken Ballantyne said there was no and no tests for the presence indication the accident was of alcohol were conducted. A citation to Johnson for improper lane travel was pending. alcohol-relate- d River forecast center issues peak flow estimates for spring runoff The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (www.cbrfc.gov) has recently issued their third peak flow forecast for the upcoming runoff. The forecasted peak flow has decreased from the second forecast, issued in April. There is a 75 probability Cataract Canyon will exceed 32,000 cfs.; a 50 probability it will exceed 43,000 cfs.; a 25 probability it will exceed 54,000 cfs.; a 10 probability it will exceed 64,000 cfs. the hop. He said the board was scheduled to meet May 16 to get a full report on the event and to discuss plans for ne xt year. Some of the key issues on the table are deciding how to fund the organizing of the event and w hether to keep it on a basis or to impose a fee. Last year there was no air show primarily because the new terminal was under construction. This year, the board hired former Redtail Aviation employee Michelle Carlucci to organize the event. But Dalla said the decision to mount the event was made a bit too late so there was not enough time to arrange some things. For example, he said, organizers could not get the jets from Hill Air Force Base because they require booking too far in advance. They hope to get the ball rolling earlier for the 2001 air show. But that all depends on discussions about funding with the board and with the county council. Promotional company setting the stage for wild fish story in $1 million prize contest at Lake Powell SCA Promotions, a company that creates promotional concepts and conditional prize guarantees, is covering the $1 million prize for the Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas million dollars fishing contest in May. The contest runs for 24 days, and is open to anglers in Utah and Arizona. The event is believed to be the largest and longest running million dollar tagged contest in the country. Numerous striped bass have been tagged and released into Lake Powell, with one designated as the million dollar fish." Any angler who reels in the specially tagged fish between sunrise May 1 and sunset May 24 will win a million dollar grand prize, to be awarded in annual installments of $40,000 each over 25 years. Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas will also award vacation packages to anglers who redeem any of the other tagged fish during the contest. The contest, which was organized because of an unusual overabundance of striped bass in the lake, is designed so that anyone - novices and avid anglers - can win. While the eve nt is free, registration is required. Anyone with a valid Utah andor Arizona fishing license and who adheres to fishing regulations and contest rules may participate. Tagged fish contests are an exciting combination of skill and luck to generate extensive participation," said Bob Hamman, chairman of SCA Promotions. With its $1 million prize, the Lake Powell event promises to draw large numbers of anglers and a great deal of excitement. Lake Powell Resorts & Marina, a division of ARAMARK, is an authorized concessionaire of the NPS and operates a fleet of rental houseboats, powerboats, marinas and lakeside lodges at Lake Powell. 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