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Show 4 J f Appeal for Stronger BARRY KAWA Review Staff CLEARFIELD acid-ga- An appeal to raise controls on a proposed $54 s million plant proposed for Clearfield failed Friday as the Utah Air Conservation Committee rejected it by a 3 margin. waste-to-ener- 6-- The appeal was filed by a citizens group opposed to the plant who maintained acid gas control levels should be set higher than the air quality permit allowed for. About 90 people attended the emotional public hearing held by the committee in the Clearfield City Council chambers. Although only five people opposed to the plant spoke in the two and a half hour hearing, all lived within close proximity to where the plant would be located in East Clearfield. Clearfield resident Lyle Cox said by lowering the standards were selling our air and selling our future. Clearfield resident George Hansen said he was born in Magna and cited air quality problems there with the Kenne cott Copper plant. He added now someone wants to come in and pollute the air here. Isnt there somewhere in this state we can live where the air is clean, he asked. The residents protested Bureau of Air Quality direcior Brent Bradfords decision to reduced standards of acid gases to a 50 percent removal rate for sulfur dioxide and hydrochloric acid. Bradfords action reduced the 90 percent' re l - Removal Law Fails Acid-Ga-s moval rate for sulfur dioxide and 70 percent on sulfur dioxide mandated by the committee in a September meeting. State and local officials have main-- , tained a system may be used to meet the 50 percent standard, but the higher level would require an expensive acid-ga- s scrubbing system. Proponents of the. plant including the Davis Solid Waste Management Board ' claimed the scrubbers would have made the project economically unfeasible, Bradford said his decision to lower the standards came from computer modeling tests and an environmental impact study. We predict there will be no violation of ambient health air quality standards at the 50 percent level,: lime-injecti- he said. OTIBD Vcn nno?ilD Qaaaitta .veonesaayTApnn ' I Bradford rejected opponents argument of the lowering of the acid-ga- s levels being inconsistent with the recent auto emissions program implemented in Davis County. He said the auto emissions program is designed to reduce the levels of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide which are not related to the acid gases. Youre comparing apples and oranges, Bradford said. After the vote upheld Bradford's decision, committee member Noel observed their action was a compromise between our desires and their desires while maintaining the economical feasibility of the plant. However, Committee Chairman Ralph Macfarlane said the idea to place a plant in the the most rapidly growing 6-- 3 rs county in the state of Utah is "absolutely nutty but we dont have the authority to make that decision. Macfarlane also said it was the fault of local officials in not providing information that delayed the air quality permit and not the states fault. - It looks like youre covering your, tracks with our blood, he said of much : publicized letters written by local officials criticizing the state for delaying the decision. , Wasatch Front Regional Council reply to Macfarlanes statements at the hearing. He said, however, he wished to review the minutes of the hearing and then answer his comments in a letter. Vol. 4 No. 14 Review Staff Ai opinion BOUNTIFUL was given, to Bountiful City Attorney Lane Forbes saying that the city must obtain written voluntary approval to line creeks which have changed course onto ' personal property. Without written approval by the property owner, the city, will have to declare eminent do-, main, stated the opinion, which was handed over by E.J. Skeen, an attorney specializing in water law. The opinion was asked for because of the uncertainties of citys legal rights concerning creeks on private property. A Stone Creek has left its original stream bed and meandered onto, property which it originally did not touch. One of those residents Ethel Kingston, wants the city to either channel the creek back into its original bed, or pay her for the property before she will give her written consent to. line the creek. To add to the citys problems along Stone Creek, residents living east of 800 East in Bountiful presented a petition to the Bountiful City Council saying they are opposed to the citys plans to line Stone Creek' with cement and that they object to the entry upon our property by personnel or equipment. The city will proceed with the concrete lining of the creek, even though the residents dont want NSL Man Arrested CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review living on the creek. Residents living above 800 East will not be as affected by swollen waters of the creek because debris from unlined creeks clogs culverts further downstream. Many residents who would be in jeopardy appeared at last weeks city council meeting to present a petition with about 44 signatures saying that they want the creek lined. Hearing of the petition and that you directed Balling to stop all work on the stream, gave me grave concern, David Williams said. It is our firm, opinion that concrete linings are needed for safety... We did not want the construction on Stone Creek to stop. If it comes to an impasse, we plead that something of a minimum be done: Time is of the essence. Something must be done, Williams stated. As of March 16, 1984, the community services program has had 360 offenders who have served 16,043 hours in the comwork sites munity. Forty-thre- e including libraries, parks, streets and offices have been developed. Since the start of the program, 173 have completed their work assignments with 83 being referred back to the court for either payment of their fine or restitution, or to serve the jail sentence. -- Former j it because, as city engineer Jack Balling said, We have a moral responsibility, to protect people CHERYL ARCHIBALD ,4 Mf&iflGTOfii CITY 4 V, Staff NORTH SALT LAKE Friends and neighbors of Rich- : ard Craig Smith were shocked and couldnt believe it when they were told of his arrest for selling information to the Soviet ' Union. .J Smith was accused of selling information gpr r ilHft presidency. flaky type. Smith had a great desire to be successful and he loved the video business, Ms. White said. Smiths wife, Susan, was devoted to him and loved him very much, Ms. White said. She and ; their four children FARMINGTON Operation of the Davis County community service and restitution program has been turned over to Utah' State Adult Probation and' Parole from the Davis County Sheriffs Department. A Beginning April 10, offenders who have been sentenced to community work for convictions such as DUIs will be supervised through Adult Probation and Parole,". According to Sheriffs Department Capt. Jim Stewart, this will place the program in line with other parole department reBasically, its more in line with their responsibilities as a probationary agent to supervise that, Stewart said. The lack of manpower in the sheriffs office ' is a big factor also.. The program was developed in August, 1983 by the sheriffs deofk partment to place fenders such as those convicted for DUI in community service work instead of jail. A community services officer has been assigned in the sheriffs office as a low-ris- ; DEJA VU? Scenes like this one in Far- mington where the road is being eaten away by undergroundwater appear to be much like the damage caused by the Flood of 83. But officials say the flood of 1984 may be even greater and the non-prof- felt-th- v moved around a lot and she was hoping that they would finally get to settle down and live in one Photo by Ftodne contact person in the program. Offenders have been sentenced to work a minimum of 16 hours for Davis County, cities and it agencies in such jobs as custodial and library work. Its been a program we handled as an additional duty, Stewart said. It has really been a big burden on us but we needed" the program to divert from the some; of the people ' jail. Parole dept, district agent Richard H. Weber said the program will remain the same but administratively it will be different. He added the parole dept, originally supervised all community service work but they program could be better handled under the sheriffs department. ; But its become a much larger program than they initially expected, he said. Weve also found there was some duplication in what they were doing and what we were doing. Weber said the parole dept, will cancel two weekly briefing meetings given by the Sheriffs Dept, to people on the community service program. ... . Smith was a counterintelligence officer with top secret security clearance from 1976 to 1978 and worked in intelligence with the army until 1980. The family moved from North Salt Lake to Provo where Smith enrolled in Brigham Young University in communications. ; ' After he left Provo, the family moved to Bellevue, Washington, where his parents, Hyrum and Dorothy Smith lived. Wright need to be better preparedIns also greater. The Lakeside Review has pub- lished a special Flood Guide in this is- sue to help area residents get ready for the flood potential. j, ; Under Foothill. Ordinance NSL Subdivision Given Approval quires developers to install roads with no more than a 15 percent 'y PreNORTH SALT LAKE grade and to take necessary mealiminary approval was given for sures to insure proper drainage a new subdivision to be located of the development. west of Davis Blvd. at 4300 S. Officials said that the first hillThe Valley View subdivision side developments in North Salt will consist of 13 lots ranging in Lake did not meet these requiresize from acre to ments and have required extenacre. , sive changes to eliminate the The developer, Paul Clark, problems created by the lack of said it has taken him 10 months building guidelines. to finally receive approval from One of the major concerns of the council. Ours was the first the city council, when considersubdivision approved under the ing the proposal, was whether or new North Salt Lake Foothill not the subdivision would elimiOrdinance, he said, and that is nate the possibility of continuing Davis Boulevard as a through why it took so long. The new city ordinance re- - street sometime in the future. JUDY JENSEN Review Correspondent e one-foifr- one-ha- lf , th . .Clark said hechanged his original plan to allow for either opor a through tion, a '' street. Lake The North Salt city planning commission met with Clark earlier tq voic their concerns about possible drainage problems the Subdivision might create, and changes were made to alleviate future drainage concerns.' Byron BerVin, planning commission chairman, addressed the city council and explained the planning commission was satisfied with the new plan. ' After the council unanimously approved the proposal, Mayor Robert Palmquist jokingly ad cul-de-s- 1 '.is. You see Paul, its that easy, all you have to do is ask! Clark said he will begin construction as soon as he has final approval. He expects to be able ded, to begin sales on May.l. The lots will range in price from 25,000 to 35,000 with an average of 28,000. He expects construction of sales price ; homes to begin as early as mid May. Clark said there are only a few details to be worked out now. One of them he said is posIt sibly renaming the is currently called Orson Circle, named after his grandfather, but nobody seems to like that, so he is considering other names. cul-de-sa- c. ; Tight Races ! IS if:: . Merlyn White, a friend of the Smith family, said Smith was very intelligent and interesting to listen to. He was not the Goes to Probation , a - , Review Staff about . counterintelligence operation, Royal Miter for. $11,000, and reportedly offered more money for further information concerning the armys counterintelligence operations. Richard Strong, North Salt Lake City Councilman and a neighbor of Smiths, said that Smith, his wife and his kids were a super family. Smith attended the Orchard Ninth LDS Ward and was a counselor in the Elder quorum place. . , Em Q-ti-t Should Come Prior To Work on Creek sponsibilities. ex- ecutive director Wil Jeffries declined to Bounti Written Approval A ' . lyof BARRY KAWA ; I A:;f ' - Both Region 1 and Region 4 baseball races are shaping up to be as closely contested as the region basket-- ; ball wars were. 12A , , |