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Show Wednesday, Utah-Regional: January 30. 1980. THE HERALD. Provo, Utah— Page 21 The latest happenings from in and around the Beehive State fiih Utah Senate Votes to Tax Gross Income of IPP SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The State Senate has votedto tax the gross annual income of the Intermountain Power Project and to set up a system to collect additional “impactaid” from the mammoth electric plant scheduled to bebuilt in the western Utah desert In an unexpected move Tuesday, the Senate overwhelmingly approved what had been viewed as two competing wants to turn Utah into “an outhouse for its power plant’ it should pay for the privilege. The plant would be built near Lyndy!l in Millard County by a consortium of Utah and southern California municipal and rural electric companies. Utah Power & Light Co. hasalso been sold a 25 percentinterestin the facility Fifty-eight percent of the electricity proposals to collect revenue from the would go to Los Angelesand five ofits 3,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant. suburbs. The bills now go to the House for Utah law exempts the project from further action property taxes since it is being built Clark Layton, governmentrelations primarily by muncipal goverments. coordinator for IPP, said approval of But officials of the tiny, rural comboth measures amountsto ‘double tax- munities near the plant site want ation.” revenue from IPP to pay for services “It's not fair.” he said. “IPP is the that will be needed when the arrivial of first project ever to agree to pay im- construction crews balloons their poppact aid to local communites. The tax ulations. on gross receipts is not needed.” IPP agreed to pay $20-§40 million in But Sen. Darrell Renstrom, D- impactaid to local communities during Ogden, said if southern California the eight years of construction work on the plant. Work on the facility give an existing state agency the Natural Resources CommunityImpact Board, the jobof negotiating thesize of the impact payments. Senators also approved 29-0 a proposal to impose the 2 percent tax gross receipts tax which would generate between $10 million and $15 million in state revenue per year The impact aid would end when the plantis built. But. under existing law IPPwill then haveto pay about$25 mil- lion per year in payments in lieu of property taxes on the 89 percent of the Project owned by Southern California cities, Utah rural electrification associations and UP&L. The 11 percent of the project owned by 23 Utah towns will be exempt from thein-lieu payments. Ute Tribe, State Reach Settlement on Water Utah Opera Group Rights in Uintah Basin From State Prison SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — By agreeing to agree later on, the Ute Indian Tribe and the State of Utah have reached a tentative settlementof their Uintah Basin waterrights dispute, says Dee Hansen, state negotiator in the talks. The draft agreement leaves open the question of waterfiling priorities for Indians and non-Indians on landseastof the Green River, Hansen said. Thatissue, a central point in the originaldispute, will be settled later, he explained. Hansen said the preliminary compact is subject to agreement and modification by both sides, but it was unanimously approved earlier in the week t ' the Utah Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The compact is undergoing ‘‘cosmetic’’ chi anges and printing, he said, and should be ready for Senate action Wednesday. According to Hansen,the draft compact has support from Stephen G. Boyden, Ute Tribe attorney, Gov. Scott M.Matheson and Uintah Basin elected officials. Hansen said Indian water claims in the basin are the key to the Uintah and Upalco Units of the Central Utah Project. is scheduled to begin next spring The Senate approved 27-1 a bill that would allow the aid and it voted 19-5 to To Use Inmates SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Faced with a rapidly-advancing opening night and personnel shortages, the Utah Opera Company has decided to use someinmates from the state prison in its production of ‘‘Aida."” Twenty-five inmates from the Community Corrections Center made their stage debut Monday night, decked out in full makeup and elaborate soldier costumes. “They came through like real troopers,” said company spokesman Judy Mancini, The opera organization ran ads in local newspapers and on radio stations in an effort to recruit enough extras to fill out the stage for the production, but Mancini said response to the campaign was insufficient. But Sen. Charles Bullen, R-Logan. author of the gross receipts tax bill, said the in-lieu revenue is not a sure thing. He said “a smart Los Angeles lawyer” could probably get the in-lieu payments declared unconstitutional If we don’t impose a gross receipts House members voted 62-0 to allow introduction of the nonbudgetitem during the Legislature's budget session ofa single episode had been disposed of Circuit Court Judge Mark Johnson to dismiss the driving under theinfluence of alchohol complaint. Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Daniel Stewart said, ‘‘The citations charge separate. independentoffenses which were committed at different times and were entirely unrelated to each other.” Rep. Gary Brockbank, R-Salt Lake the author of the statutorylimit, said tax. we could find ourselves with a totally tax exemptutility,’’ he said ing sizeable cuts in local property The Utah House, meanwhile. agreed taxes. Lawmakers arealso considering to consider a contitutional amendment amendments which would let the which would give the Legislature the Legislature chop property taxes impower to exempt residential property posed by cities and counties from taxes imposed by schooldistricts House Majority Leader Norman - Utah lawrequiresalldistricts to im- Bangerter R-Granger, said the pose at least a 24 mill property tax to Legislature's Republican majority will finance basic educationprograms. likely pull all the various tax cut ideas The amendment. sponsored by Rep. together into a single packege of Lorin Pace R-Salt Lake, would let the proposed amendments. amendLegislatureeliminatepartorall of that ment package, if approved by the 24-mill levy on homes,butstill impose Legislature, would then go to the peothe tax on commercial property. Under ple for a final vote during the present law. any reduction in the levy Novembergeneralelection. must apply to both residental and House members refused to consider he was puzzled by the vote. He said the tax and spending guidelines need revi- sion to correct technical errors and take care of unforseen problems One major problem is that the law usesa city’s population aspartof a for mula to determine how large local taxes can be. The provision has severly hurt Salt Lake City, which has to provide services for hundreds of thou- sandsof people who work in the city but live outside its boundaries. The city cannot include the commuters in its population base whenit calculatesits tax and spendinglimits. Bundy’s Motionfor Directed Verdict of Acquittal Refused ORLANDO,Fla. (UPI) — Convicted murderer Theodore Bundy Tuesday asked a circuit judge to acquit him of a 12-year-old girl's kidnap-killing at the completion of the state’s case against him. Cireuit Judge Wallace M. Jopling denied the motion for a directed verdict of acquittal after hearing a rambling, 25-minute argumentfrom Bundyin his chambers. The prosecution rested after presenting 65 witnesses in seven ys. Jopling called off court Wednesday, and ordered Bundy’s attorneys to begin presenting their case Thursday morning. The judge said he expected the ease to go to the jury Mondayafternoon. Asked why Bundy argued the motion “There was no evidence to show that I was the individual seen by Mr. Anderson and no evidence to show that I was responsible for the kidnapping and abduction of Kimberly Leach,” Bundy said. ‘‘It is inherently unbelievable, incredible and not supported by any other witnesses."” He suggested the jury be transported to Kim’s junior high school to see for themselves the crime scene. but Jopling said that was unnecessary. Bundyalsocriticized the last witness presented by the state. Mary Lynn Hinson, a microanalystfor the Florida Departmentof Law Enforcement. She examined fibers taken from Bundy’s clothing, fibers found in the stolen white van andfibers of clothing found next to Kim’s body. for acquittal himself. defense attorney J. Victor Africano said simply, ‘He wanted to.”’ The 33-year-old law school dropovt said in his own defense the prosecution had presented no evidence that positively incriminated him. “I cannot imaginethata court or any other individual would find meguilty of murder in the first degree,"’ Bundy said. ‘There was no consequential evidence by the state to show a premeditated murder at this time.” He especially criticized the state's star eyewitness, ex-paramedic C. L. “Andy” Anderson. He testified Bundy was the same manhe sawleading the sobbing Leach girl into a white van across the street from Lake City Junior High School the day she disappeared, Feb. 9, 1978. You can have any luxurious Henredon registration or safety inspection documents. Hupp had argued that the Utah Code prevents prosecution of other charges after one or more charges arising out In a ruling released Tuesday, the court denied a claim by James Hupp, Salt Lake, that a driving - under-theinfluence charge should be dismissed because Hupp pleaded guilty to other traffic violations committed at the same time.Hupp had pleaded guilty in Fourth Circuit Courtto driving without a license and operating a motorvehicle which was not equipped with proper government spending and taxes enacted last year by the Legislature The measurefell three votes short of the 50 needed to win introduction Pace's approach is one of several proposals designed to eliminate conStitutional roadblocks that have prevented the Legislature from order- Utah High CourtClarifies Issue on Traffic Offenses SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The Utah Supreme Courthasclarified state law concerning conviction on a number oftraffic offenses committed while the suspect was under the influence of alcohol. bill which would have corrected flaws in a statutory limit on state and local business property upholstered item— bytrial or entranceofa guilty plea. He sofa, loveseat or chair made to fit asked the five justices to order Fourth your home. Governor Seeking Pay Hike For Utah Public Employees SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Gov. Scott Mathesonsays thequalityof state government in Utah will deteriorate unless public employees are given a 12.1 percent pay hike this year. The governor Tuesday said the payraise issue is vital to keeping down the numberof state workers while boosting their productivity. Matheson has asked the current session of the Legislature to appropriate money to cover the wage boost. Healso took the opportunity at a Rotary meeting to predict that a sales tax-removal referendum expected to be on the November ballotwill pass. In lightofthis likelihood, Matheson said it would be “totally irresponsible” for legislators to spend any state surplus funds before thatelection. He said millions of dollars will be needed if the state loses its sales tax revenue. 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