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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Saturday, July 12, 1997 D3 Farmington Residents Oppose Depot major highways. Opponentsof the Davis County School District proposal are appealing a Thursday deci- sion by Farmington’s Planning Commissionto allow schoolbusesto roll out of an area near 100 North and 650 West. That is near the one Interstate 15 overpass that links rural Farmington with downtown. Critics of the proposal claim the overpass already is crowded with traffic and will get worse with the adventof the Legacy Highway and a widenedinterstate Further clogging Farmingtonstreets will be the planned improvements to U.S. Highway 89, expandingit from four lanestosix. All three highwayswill join in some manner in Farmington under plans proposed by the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). Adding a fleet of buses to the mix will turn residential streets into a tumult of noise, pollution and hazards, say manywhowant the bus conflictofinterest. Yet Paynestill talked to the planning board about the issue after the meeting came to a close. City Council member Larry Haugen later distributed a petition asking that the rest of the council dismiss Payne, claiming he was trying to influence the commission. Butafter a review, the council decided not to fire Payne. His comments, said Mayor Greg Bell, indicated that Payne merely wanted to educate planners about the bus depot and was not trying to sway their votes. “He's a manof honor,” Bell said. At Thursday's meeting, Planning Commission members still were targets of charges that they were biased in favor of the school dis- trict. Other residents said they could not un- derstand why the city was allowing moretraffic into the city while so many road projects were being juggled. “Traffic problems in west Farmington need to be addressedfirst before we go along with this,” said resident Aaron Richards. Gov. Mike Leavitt has lobbied for the Lega. hub scratched, cy Highway to extend from Utah County to the “What we have hereis an attempt to jam a square peg into a round hole,” said Farming- ofI-15 to relieve congestion on the 30-year- bowed to the schooldistrict and its plans for the depot over their concerns, They have col- lected 300 signatures on a petition aimed at The first stretch of Legacy to be built will reach from Salt Lake County to north Farmington and near Kaysville's city limits. Planners say the highway will be constructed be- blocking the depot andhavecalled for the resignation of Planning Commission member Gary Payne. Payneis aschool-district administrator who access to either roadway and that inter- ton resident Lewis Clark. Clark and other residents allege the city Weber/BoxElder countyline.It will run west old interstate. changeslinking Legacy, 1-15 and Highway 89 will be a mess for motorists. On Official State Language BY SHAWN FOSTER THESALT LAKETRIBUNE UDOTpreviously proposed two routes for Legacy, including one that would extend the highwayto the west before connecting to 1-15 in K But in both proposals, south and west Far- mington residents would not have easyaccess to the freeway. Thursday night, UDOT unveiled two newalternatives. One calls for the Legacy Highway to run adjacent to I-15 beginning at Glover Lane in south Farmington and advancinginto a terminus with I-15 and Highway89at Burke Lane in north Farmington. The second alternative shows Legacyveering far west at either Lund Laneor Glover Lane and going north into south Both alternativesafford residents mor SS but questions remain on howmany home i farmswill be taken out under each proposal said Farmington plannerDavid Petersen. Farmington’s City Council will review the alternatives next weekbeforeissuing a recom mendation, UDOTwill hold public hearings Aug. 20 and 21 on the Legacyalignment. In the meantime, plans for the roadway can change as UDOTweighs the advantages of eachalternative “As information changes in the coming Alegislative committee will debate a proposed law next week that would make English thestate's official language. House Bill 387 would prohibit state agencies from conducting business or printing information in any language but English. The legislation makes three exceptions: for- eign-language and English-asa-second-language classes in public schools, court interpreters and law enforcement, and emergencypersonnel On Wednesday, the Govern- ment Operations Interim Committeewill listen to arguments for andagainst thebill ‘The meeting begins 9 a.m in Room 416 at the Capitol The sponsor, Rep. Tammy Rowan, R-Orem, hopes the committee will approve the Farmington’s road plans remain blurry. But most agreedthat the schooldistrict met nearly fore reconstruction of I-15 in the same area. all state and local requirements. Both projects worry Farmington residents, whofear that they will not be granted enough said commission memberKim Wallace. “But I An American Indian group asked President Clinton on Fri- day to halt the shipmentof14 tons The U.S. Departmentof Energy began transporting the radioac- tive materials from its Nevada The letter, by the Native Amer- Test Site, 100 miles north of Las Vegas, to a uranium processing facility in southeastern Utah on May28, fails to intervene within 10 days, the group will take its case to the and is amongthe last remnants of of nuclear waste to a storagesite near the White MesaReservation. ican Petitioners, said if Clinton The waste, 400 tons in all, is called the “Cotter Concentrate” United Nations and the interna- original uranium oreused in pro- tional community. ducing the nation’s first atomic RIBUNE THE SALT Intermountain Health Care has taken the final step necessary to get out of the blood-banking business by signing a consent decree with the federal government. The action comesthree months after the federal Food and Drug Administration for the second time in two years suspended THC's license to collect and distribute bloodafter inspections re- vealed more than 100 violations at its three Wasatch Front blood banks. The decree, signed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Sam, addresses three basic issues: @ Thedestruction of any blood products collected between Sept. 8, 1995, and April 26, 1997, when THC was found to be in violation of federal record-keeping guidelines and using lax methods in de- termining donor suitability. All but 200 units of fresh frozen plasma havebeenused or disposedof, said IHC spokesman Daron Cowley. IHC executives are hoping FDAofficials will allow them to forward those plasma units for use to the Red Cross, which would then retest each unit to make sure it is free of infectious disease. @ The completion of an audit of all blood collected between Jan.1, 1987, and Aug. 31, 1995, when THC was found to be using the wrong test to detect the HIV virus on about 20 units of donated blood. That processis nearly completed, Cowley said, adding that “the FDA never found any blood that was unsafe and neither have we. @ And thedetails of what IHC would haveto do if the company wanted to get backinto the bloodbanking business, which, accord- ing to Cowley, the company does people who oppose the bill aren't calling me. They proba- blyview meas the enemy. Well, maybenot the enemy, exactly. ‘It's not really needed We'renot going to get closer becai of an official language. Weareunited because democracy is practiced here and the economy is successful,” said longtime Latino ae. tivist Robert “Archie” Archu leta of Salt LakeCity. “So why is there a movement to make Englishthe official language? It’s part of a larger attack on people who arelooked upon as‘foreigners.’ ¢ | Ourtraffic problems have to besolved,’ See theWorld in One Night still can’t vote against this.” weaponsin World War II Indian tribes, particularly the at the Springville national Corp. owns the mill that White MesaUtes, who live down- is the final destination of the wind and downslope of the mill waste shipments. The company plans to reprocess the waste and extract uranium, which has a rising market value. are opposed to any nuclear waste coming to the mill. They say the waste could contaminate groundwater, They also say the waste is an affront to sacred hunting and burial grounds adjacent to the mill property WORLD FOLKFEST JULY 12-19 Denver-based Uranium Inter- No performances July 13 ex 16 The letter to the president was signed by Norman Begay of the White Mesa Utes, Lula Katsoof Navajo Citizens, and Winston M noteverintend todo. ‘The plans are fully to have the Red Cross assumethat responsibility.” THCofficials were originally intendingto stay in the business until they realized it would take too long to correct the 148 most recent violations. Because IHC was censes. There are four other bloodbanks in Utah that continue collecting and distributing blood and blood products, including thestate’s largest bloodsupplier, it decided to turn over its blood ter. Cross. Red Cross officials are hoping to receive FDA approval to begin collecting and distributing blood in Utah bySept. 30 and have been moving blood into Utah from otherstates. The Red Cross was Utah's ma- ©Poland s @lsrael = ®ltaly “on Lithuania | @Taiwan Mexico @USA See all countries perform eachnight. More than 400 dancers & musicians. Pre-show at 6:30 p.m. Performancesat8 p.m. Adults *7 Seniors *6 Children 12 & Under $3” Purchase atthe gate or call (801) 489-3657to order tickets early. 1947 dey u ior For their Golde, All perormancesat Spring Acres Arts Park (Outdoor Theatre) 620 S, 1350 East + Springville jor blood supplier prior to 1987. Weayel when IHCopenedits three blood banksto supplyits 19 Utah hospitals. IHC had been collecting between 70,000 and 80,000 units annually. The consent decree officially revokes IHC’s blood-bank li- Zealand @Hungary University Hospital and St Mark's Hospital, both of which are in Salt Lake, The others are Mountain View Hospital, Payson and OgdenRegional Medical Cen services to the American Red @New England Masonof Great Avikan House. THC Signs Decree to End Blood-Bank Business BY NORMA WAG ER has called me has been very supportive,” shesaid. “On the other hand, my guessis that month, things can certainly flip-flop,” Peter- sen said. Planning Commission members said that Indians Petition Clinton to Halt Nuclear-Waste Shipments to Utah ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS measure in 1998. She said the bill will unify Utah “I don't know how the committee members feel about this bill, but everybody who He FARMINGTON — Road-weary residents complain that a six-acre bus depot in Farmington will dump moretraffic in a city that soon will be straining under the weight of three overseesfacilities and planning. When the depot issue first came to the Planning Commission in May, Payne declined to vote, citing a . BYMONTE WHALEY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Committee to Debate Proposal ae: __Thetfamlly would Te to, sy how oud they are of thelr resi ¢ river the best on this happiest day. 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