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Show 4A Era y Cojnfy Process Dae, L DAVIS Editor, Emery County Progress The Southeastern I'tah OHYClub, after years of supporting the Bureau of Land Managements National Public Lands Day, has decided that it will not participate this year, according to Mark 1L Williams, club president. Williams addressed the Emery County commissioners during their regular meeting on Aug. 7 and said because of a dispute o er a request for information from the BLM the club had voted to not invoke itself with Public Lands Day scheduled this year for Sept. 22 Utan Tuesday Aj3js!14.23Q1 club president says no to Public Lands Day OHV By JAMES Cast . The dispute stems from the dubs request to tbe BLM for a report on monitoring data collected on the four remaining open trails in the Sids Mountain area. According to Williams, he had requested the information through the Freedom of Information Act and had requested the information at no charge because it would be disseminated to the dub's more than 2UJ families. We receh ed a reply back from BLM stating that the dub did not qualify under guidelines to receive the report at no cost, but that we could purchase the report for a cost of $700," Williams said. According to Williams he was told that the Southern I'tah Wilderness Al liance had made a similar request and had been granted the report at no cost because they w ould disseminate the information to any wbo asked for it. He said the dub w ould ask SLAVA for the information. "After all of the w ork the club has done for the trails, to not be able to receive the information without a fee makes us feel like we dont w ant to be invoked in Public Lands Day," Williams said. According to Dick Manus erf letter cording to Manus a three-pagwas sent to Williams detailing why the club could not receke the information at no cost. Manus said that there may have bees some confusion on the part of his staff as to what document the club was requesting. The document SLAVA received was a massive publication which detailed the 1999 impairment assessment He said in telephone conversations later in the w eek with Williams he understood the document that the club was interested in was the 2000 monitoring data on the routes. He indicated that he had suggested to Williams that he resubmit the letter of request the BLM, the SEUOHY Club was never denied the information. Their justification was not significant enough to obtain it for no fee. It didn't pass the litmus test for receiving it at no cost," he said. Ac Land use workshops scheduled Unemployment for d enthusiasts on Aug. 18 at off-roa- Emery County's motorized recreation participants have the opportunity to attend a land use training workhigh-lev- shop planned for el Itahns. Residents involved with snowmobiles, motorcycles and or 4X4 vehicles are encouraged to participate in the upcoming sessions. 1 am sure you are very much aware of the persistent effort by various factions within our society that is dedicated to the elimination of motorized recreation on public lands, stated Brian Hawthorne, Itah Shared Access Alliance. Such groups have a successful common tool and that is knowledge of and direct participation in the land use adminisin tration process. It takes years to understand how to effectively weave through the maze of regulation. polities and process that is used to manage our public lands," added Hawthorne. Hawthorne explained that, even with a short time to learn, it seems reasonable you could invest one day of your time that could allow you to make a difference in protectingyour privilege to ride. There will be two Utah land use training workshops offered. The first session will be Aug. 18 in .American Pork. The second will be Oc t. 13 in Salt Lake City, at a location to be announced later. The Aug. 18 session will be at the American Fork Senior Citizens Center, located at 54 East Main, off exit 281 to the east of Interstate 15. The program is being made possible by a grant from the International Snowmobile Manufacturers .Association, with support from the Utah Snowmobile Association, Utah Shared Access Alliance and local clubs. The workshop is a specially developed seminar for the motorized recreationist. It will offer an understanding of the process that dictates what uses can take place on public lands and how' individuals can make an opinion heard. The seminar will cover forest plans, travel plans, permits, political involvement and relationship building. The key presenters at the workshop will include United States Forest Service retiree Tom Crimmin and Sandra Mitchell, land use director for the Idaho State Snowmobile Association. Specialized topics will include presenters from the local U.S. Fbrest Service. A nominal donation to help offset costs of the program will include lunch. Every club, organization, association or indkidual who is involved with vehicle use on public lands needs to have a representative at this workshop, emphasized Alan Peterson of Price. That means we need people from SEUOHV, CCOHVA, VTA, USRA, CEMA, Sage Riders, Castle Rock Fbur Wheelers and every other club, organization or association in Utah to be in- volved in this," pointed out Peterson Peterson explained that riders must educate themseh es so they can be influential when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fbrest Service revise the agencies travel plans. Remember that almost every BLM field office and forest office in the state of Utah will be updatingtheir travel plans in the next few years. If wre aren't active players during these revisions, then we will surely lose even more access throughout the state, concluded Peterson. NOYOCEOF JLJ0HSMENY LEW YAH DECREASE Emery County is proposing to increase taxes to cover refunds ordered by the Utah State Tax Commission to centrally assessed property appeals. These appeals include: Emery Telcom Merit Energy Co. Canyon Fuel Co. The total refund amount is $526,900.00. As a result of the proposed judgments, the impact on a $75,000 residence will be $17.04 and the impact on a business having the same value as the average value of a residence in the taxing entity will be $30.98. All concerned citizens are invited to attend a public hearing on the judgment levy tax increase to be held on August 20, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. in the Emery County Commission Chambers, 95 East Main Street, Castle Dale, Utah. t t As for the club's decision uot to be invoked in Public Lands Day, Manus said he was disappointed. We work closely with the club. They'v e been tremendous supporters of Public Lands Day and we will miss them, but were reaching out to a lot of different organizations and I think it will be a success," he said. Other members of the SEl'OHVClub were upset by the decision to not be invoked in Public Lands Day as w elL. Two members of the club resigned from the club following the meeting where the decision was made and there have been anonymous reports that the decision was never formally voted on by the club members. e Unemployment in Emery County jumped from 8 percent in June to 10.2 jx?rcent in July. In July 2000, Emery County reported a 6 percent jobless rate. Carbon Countys unemployment rate climbed to 6.4 percent in July, compared to 5.2 percent unemployment rate posted by the county in June. The jobless rate in Carbon County registered at 5.3 percent in July 2000. At the state level, Utahs July unemployment rate climbed to 3.9 percent from 3.5 percent joblessness in June 2001. The estimate for July is the same as the May 2001 figure, which confirms our earlier suspicion that the June figure is probably an outlier," noted Ken Jensen, senior economist for the Utah Department of Workforce -- jumps in county months. Nationwide expansion is the same pace as in 1992. The U.S. unemployment rate at 4.5 percent for July is the same as the April and June figures. Nationwide joblessness has increased only moderately from October 2000's 3.9 percent, a low: 31-ye- ar For the first seven months of 2001, the number of claims for unemployment compensation filed through the department is about 33 percent higher than for the same period in 2000, indicated Bob Gross,' workforce services director. This leap is closely correlated with the expansion in the number of unemployed Utahns and the drop in Utahs job growth. Between July 2000 and July Utahs 66,000 employers created about 16,000 net nonfarm jobs. The prkate or nongovernment sector generated 2001, Services. During the first five months of 2001, Utahs unemployment rate increased rapidly, then fell in June. Ignoring the June anomaly, Julys figure extends this plateau. Although the recent unemployment rates are somewhat higher than last years, they are still relatively low, pointed out Jensen. In July 2001, close to 43,800 Utahns were unemployed, representing a 24 percent leap from the 35,400 reported last year when the rate was 32 percent. Utahs other primary indicator of current labor market conrate of inditions, the year-ovcrease in the number of nonfarm wage and salaried jobs, has fallen sharply since the first of the year. The current 1.5 percent statewide growth, nearly a point slower than Januarys 2.4 percent, reflects Utahs slowest employment expansion since 1987. But Utah is still expand- only 1 1 ,000 of the new' positions, for a 12 percent increase. Government employment growih registered at 2.9 percent. Employment in Utahs con- struction industry stopped growing last summer. In the losses months, year-ov- ng er have gradually increased, but have not ballooned. Construction employment in July 2001, at 71,000, is down 3,300 jobs from the year-ag- o mark, a loss of 4.4 percent. The figure represents the lowest July construction employment total since 1997s 69,000. Fbr nearly two years, em- ployment in services grew more rapidly than any Utah division. Throughout the designated period, business services were acthe leading tivities in the state. But the economic slowdown hit business services hard and, in early 2001, er ing more rapidly than the the sectors United States. On the national scene, nonfarm job growth in the U.S. at 0.4 percent from July-to-Juhas plummeted by more than 2 percentage points in the last 14 year-ove- r job growth slowed sharply to 1.9 percent in July. Fbrtunately, several different services categories have accelerated expansion and Utahs largest industrial division con- - ly tinues to furnish the majority or , 60 percent of net job growih. statewide. Services 9,500 new, jobs since July 2000 represent; r growth of 3. 1 percent The fmanceLnsuranoereal : estate division is Utahs new r leader in the pace of employment expansion. The sectors 4.5 percent job growth reflects 2,600 new positions. . Depository institutions grew by , 500 positions and a 2,100 job, gain occurred in the remainder ; of the dkision. Manufacturing in Utah com , tinues in the slump it entered in 1999. A net 12 percent, 1,600; job loss has occurred in the last 12 months. Despite the poor-showing, manufacturing in Utah is still better than the U.S. dkisions loss of 4.5 percent of jobs year-ove- I , July-to-Jul- y. Utah firms in the manufacture of transportation equipment, fabricated metal and lumber, furniture, stone, clay and glass products lost a combined total of 2,000 jobs. The situation was partially offset by small gains in selected other cells. Consolidated wholesale plus retail trade is Utahs second largest division with nearly of the employment positions statewide. Trade produced 2,900 net new' jobs in the last 12 months, a growth rate of 1.2 percent. Modest employment expansion occurred in most trade industry categories, but food stores and auto dealers service stations suffered job lesses. Employment gains in and air transportation w'ere largely offset by losses in communications as well as the electric, gas and sanitary services group. Thus, the one-four- th transportationcommunica- tionspublic utilities division achieved growih of only 600 jobs or 1 .0 percent expansion.' Total employment in mining remained unchanged from July ' 2000. Other mining and quar- rying- - primarily largely oil and , gas exploration - added but coal mining dropped I 100 positions r. Government employers ih Utah have 5,000 more than a year ago, for an increase of 3 percent Within ' federal government defense in- -' stallations added 800 jobs and other federal agencies added year-ove- staff-member- s 400 position. State government employ-ment has expanded by 2.9 percent or 1,600 jobs. 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