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Show Friday, Denmber 18. Advocate, Price, Utah 1981-- Sun byisDim Sun Advocate Coal gasification project Emery plant needs partner have been looking for another partner ever since Pacific Gas and Electric pulled out last summer," he said. In January, Emery Synfuels Associates will decide whether to proceed immediately with the project. The steering committee will not meet until that decision is made, Richards noted. Our decision is not a go with the project or not. We feel like we will go with the gasification project. The decision will look at the time table of the project, said Coates. At one time, the project seemed destined to receive $3.6 million in federal funding for a feasibility study. Project sponsors were to match that amount. However, the Reagan administration budget cuts have put the grant under a heavy cloud of doubt. Federal grants have not yet been made, although some applications are still pending, according to the BLM official. The Resource Development Coordinating Committee also got a copy of a letter from Dr. R. Ritchie of the BLMs Richfield District Office concerning possible relocation of an Emery county road around Muddy Creek dam and reservoir, part of the proposed Emery Synfuels project. This year, Schick International Inc., consulting engineers for Mountain Fuel Resources and Muddy Creek Irrigation Co., located and studied several possible routes around the proposed dam and reservoir. The road is presently located in the basin of the potential reservoir. For its preliminary field work, Schick used road stanNational Forest. The dards established by Manti-Lasstandards require that the grade of the road be no more than eight percent and that the route be chosen to accommodate the building of a road with a 50 foot base width. This would have a gravel base and an asphalt surface. The letter from Ritchie said the National Forest has told Mountain Fuel Resources and the irrigation company that, assuming coal development would happen sometime after completion of the dam and reservoir, the road standards could be reduced. The new road standards could have a base width of 18 feet and no gravel base or asphalt surface. Whether a proposed $1.5 billion coal gasification plant is built soon in Emery County may depend on a decision to be made in January 1982, the Utah Resources Development Coordinating Committee has learned. Committee members have received copies of a Nov. 20 letter from C. Wayne Richards, project manager of the Bureau of Land Managements involvement with the Emery Synfuels Project, sponsored by Mountain Fuel Resources, which is connected with Mountain Fuel Supply We Co. Richards wrote that on Nov. 12 the BLM met with Mountain Fuel Resources to review a preliminary draft of its proposal. There are many deficiencies in the proposed action at this time, and data on raw material needs and emission levels will not be available until after completion of an engineering report. The report, scheduled to be finished by the end of this month, will be by consulting engineers and will deal with a coal gasification process called the slagging Lurgi process. A BLM official has reported that this is a process involving proven technology. The companys proposal will not be circulated to the Emery Synfuels Steering Committee, a government coordinating panel, until the deficiencies are corrected, Richards wrote. Emery County Commissioner Rue Ware is a representative on that panel. Support of the project by Dupont (Conoco Coal) and Southern California Edison (Mono power) is tentative and the project may be postponed until financial questions are answered, Richards wrote. Mountain Fuel Resources is negotiating with other companies for partnership in the project. The news that Mountain Fuel Resources is looking for another partner doesnt suggest that the project is in jeapordy, suggested Dr. Ralph Coates, director of research for Mountain Fuel Resources. federal-state-loc- al Businessman of the month seven months in Price. He was produce manager in the Mt. Pleasant store seven months before being named assistant manager and later manager of the Price store 21 years. He has been employed by store. He and his wife, Colleen, are the Safeways 27 years and has worked all but parents of three daughters. Neeley, manager of Price's is the Carbon County Chamber Safeway, of Commerce Businessman of the Month, Neeley has been manager of the Price Don E. XhicasoE Cutlery Super Xmas Savings al B GSB assistant vice president - marketing, Consolidation Coal Co. Addressing a conference the American Institute of Mining Engineers, he said that while North American utilities continue to provide the U.S. coal industry with its largest market and its greatest potential for growth, significant expansion in the industrial and export markets also is anticipated during the next decade. However, the high interest rates, restrained economic growth and un- over certainty of environmental regulations have distorted recent coal industry growth forecasts, especially those involving the electric utility industry, he said. The most serious energy problem facing us in the 1980s is the financial condition of our electric utilities, Cope said. Approximately $350 billion will need to be invested in electric plants in this decade for capital improvements. But utilities cash earnings are continuing to provide for less generation of funds than is required, forcing utilities to borrow additional capital at high interest rates. He explained that the situation is causing utilities to continue operating generating stations and the higher costs onto the passing consumer, rather than converting to coal. Cope foresees a 3.7 percent growth rate in the utility market for coal during the decade, bringing the yearly total to 830 million tons by 1990. In the industrial market for coal, Cope predicts a turnaround from the decline which prevailed during most of the last 30 years to a sharp increase in the next 10 years. This will occur despite uncertainties because of environmental concerns and the uncertain nature of natural gas price decontrol, he said. In industry, the use of coal has declined and with it the infrastructure, he explained. Because industry uses smaller boilers, the relative economics of coal versus other alternative fuels are less favorable than they are for the large utilities. He believes that the increasing impact of new technology in coal handling and combustion especially fluidized bed combustors will imindustrial market prove growth during oil-fir- 'CU l(R) Scanner SALE 109 98 79 C-4H- Detailing export market conditions, he said that many of these problems facing U.S. utility and industrial users are affecting European and Far East concerns as well. Cope said the optimistic outlook for the steam coal export market to Europe and the Pacific Rim countries will be dependent on economic growth, competition from other countries, political stability in the energy scene and inflation. The cost of capital is giving potential coal users pause for thought, he said. Because of ind flation, costs to finance have doubled, plants delaying expansion of capacity worldwide. 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Backing out one million barrels of oil with 80 million tons of coal would save $6 billion. LV The Price Social Security office will close Dec. 23 through 25 for the holidays, according to 8 Price Store will be Open Every Night 'til 8 p.m. beginning Friday, Dec. 1 8th SS office to close Dec. Band AutomaticProgrammable Scanner. Special Features Aircraft and FM Broadcast Bands. 50 Chef's Gourmet by 1985. Reg. 18.76 B 42 99 GH 5 the decade. He predicts an increase in industrial demand from the current 77 million tons annually to 90 million tons Christmas tor the Family Model D810 14" Block Reg Set SALE Slant ' 1 Gift Sets Gourmet Coal executive sees bright future HOUSTON The outlook for the U.S. coal industry during the 1980s is a dynamic mixture of optimism and caution, according to J. Alan Cope, 6 Her- representative man G. Archuleta. 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