Show 1 I Dslta Utah $2000 out ol in month $1300 (In Advance) Copy 50 Senior Citizens (65 and older) $1800 in county $20 00 out of USPS County 0 79 Vol No 25 Dec 22 1988 y To target industry i i i f by Ken Rand Utah Power and Light Company officials presented a “Target Industry Study” for West Central Utah to local officials at a meeting of the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce Wednesday Dec 14 UP&L conducted the study to be used as a tool to help with economic development efforts in Millard Beaver Juab Sanpete and Sevier counties It identified industries with growth potential that could operate efficiently in the study area Three UP&L official made the luncheon presentation Jack Peck Telluride Regional Manager explained why UP&L conducted the study Doug Kopp Project Analyst explained the methods used in the study and Sharon Young Community Development Specialist explained how the study can be used “Utah Power and Light Company’s role in economic development has been and will continue to be a supportive role” Peck said “The wishes of the community is what we would like to cater to If there is an activity that will stimulate growth and this is what the community wants we are certainly willing and hopefully able to provide the expertise necessary and sometimes the funds necessary to fulfill that particular responsibility” Peck said UP&L is just as interested in keeping good businesses as attracting new ones “It really doesn’t make a lot of sense to try to attract a number of new businesses into an area when all that does is close existing businesses that are here” he said Economic development is a cooperative effort Peck said “It will not happen with just one entity” he said “It has to be the community If the community working together itself doesn’t want it to happen it tionship to the area they’re much more likely to be successful here” The document ranks 80 such industries to determine the top 25 "Hopefully you will be able to use the study and it will provide some benefits for you” Young said She said steps toward doing that included idenwhich the tifying desirable targets study accomplishes forming a local task force to further refine the focus of recruitment efforts “narrow them down to a manageable level” and gathering community profile data Another important step is to determine why a company would want to locate here “Do you have the labor force available?” she asked “Are the buildings really available for this type of industry? What are transportation costs like? Capital is another big one Can your resources handle it? What about quality of life?” Young suggested after a few target industries are identified “you ought to have a marketing strategy to try and get them here This includes videos newsletter documents” She suggested UP&L recruitment specialists be used “This study will be of no value at all if you put it on the shelf” Peck said “Nothing will come to fruition if you don’t work at it” Officials present included Delta Mayor Ruth Hansen Hinckley Mayor Ward Peterson County Commissioner Mike Styler and Commissioners-elec- t Jer’E Brinkerhoff and Frank Baker “I think it’s a very important tool we have to work with” Styler said of the study “I think UP&L is very sincere in wanting to help us bring in new dustry and businesses and I was pressed with the scope of the study and how it ties with help for existing businesses I think they are right on won’t” County Administrator Robyn Pearson said steps are already being taken to integrate the target study into the county’s economic development efforts Those efforts were scheduled to be discussed on an informal basis at the Tuesday Dec 20 County Commission meeting in Fillmore They will be further discussed at the next meeting of the economic development committee scheduled for 8 am Wednesday Jan 11 1989 at the Delta City Hall target” Messiah performed in Delta -f — capacity audience heard the 22nd annual performance of the Messiah Sunday Dec 8 at the Delta Stake Center Joseph Moody conducted the choir of over 50 voices and the Eskdale orchestra in the performance The event was sponsored in part by the West Millard Cultural Council A 7 ? f L Hazard waste vote possible UP&L releases study Kopp said several indicators were used to determine a list of candidate dustries Industries were screened for their growth imports and exports history and potential how well they did income in the last two recessions costs ocgeneration transportation cupational needs and labor intensity “The purpose of those steps” he said “is to screen out those industries that have no relationship to the area The theory being that if they have a rela t In March? f Doug Kopp explains to prepared a large Chamber audience how the study was AF test range opposed by Ken Rand At a press conference held in Salt Dec 15 Callao Lake City Thursday rancher Cecil Garland and others said they oppose Air Force plans to create electronic testing range in a the West Desert Garland who ranches at the base of the Deep Creek Mountains in west became regionally Juab County famous through his struggle against the MX missile He is a member of the West Desert Range Association which joined Downwinders Inc in criticizing the test range plan Thursday Ed Alder president of the Association was also at the conference held at the state capitol building In a “Statement of Concern” issued at the conference the Association said the test range would decrease the value of ranches and homes due to increased military activity increase noise levels have an adverse effect on wildlife and natural public roads resources health create potential hazards and create interruptions damages to radio telephone and TV increase law enforcement requirements and have an adverse impact on public and private schools Garland said that too often the West Desert is viewed as a vast “vacuum” only suitable for projects with negative impacts “1 wish this country would get over the idea that the West Desert is a wasteland that it is a vacuum” he said “Utah has the same idea” Garland criticized the mentality along the Wasatch Front that says “If we don’t want it here stick it out in the West Desert” He cited fighter planes the MX missile and hazardous waste as examples of that kind of thinking The Air Force intends to expand the Utah Test and Training Range south into Millard County to create an “electronic combat test capability” Work on the project is expected to begin in 1990 and continue over a decade Air Force officials say $76 million will be See AIR FORCE page 2 by Ken Rand Millard County voters may get a chance this spring to determine conditions under which hazardous waste facilities would be permitted here if at all Rollins Environmental Services Inc wants to build a hazardous waste cinerator at Lynndyl A citizens group opposed to the plant failed to get an itiative on the issue on the ballot this fall but the group is now working with county officials to get the issue before voters in the spring County Clerk Marlene Whicker asked County Attorney Warren Peterson for his opinion on the initiative after it was given to her by the group in September for certification But Peterson noted his private practice partnerwho ship with Thorpe Waddingham represents Rollins created a conflict of interest so he asked the County Commission to get an outside attorney to write an opinion Garfield County Attorney Pat Nolan accepted the task and sent his opinion to Peterson in a letter dated Dec 7 In the letter Nolan wrote the county zoning ordinance questioned by the proposed initiative passed by the commission April 5 was not subject to itiative or referendum He wrote “In view of the foregoing I hereby advise the Millard County Clerk to simply file the petition in the records of Millard County and to take no further action whatsoever with respect thereto” That killed the issue group spokesman Rob Droubay said “We feel that there’s no point in the County spending money and us spending money fighting a dead issue” he said But in an informal meeting in Delta Monday Dec 12 County Commissioner Mike Styler told the group he was working to get the issue on a special ballot in early March Droubay said the group will help draft the ballot wording “Wes Bloomfield and myself are going to be involved in helping to develop a conditional use permit to the point where we can feel as a group comfortable with the permitting process stringent enough that we can cover ourselves” he said A conditional use permit works within existing zoning ordinances Any company that wants to locate in Millard County must first apply for such a permit “So what we would do is work within the framework we have now” Droubay said “and develop a criteria for a conditional use permit that we feel comfortable with" Styler said a special election will probably be called for by the end of the year “But we won’t have the question decided on until a little bit later on" he said “because we’ve decided to first determine what the question on the ballot will be Let’s define the limitations that w ill be placed upon them and let’s define all the whole scope of things that would be demanded of them and let’s make that part of the question so people will know what they’re voting on” The criteria will be developed by representatives trom the citizens group working with Jerry Reagan from the county and Leon Smith from the “If all County Planning Commission parties feel good about what they come up with” Styler said “that’ll be the question that will be decided at an election" Rollins legal representaive Frank Willis was scheduled to meet with officials from Lynndyl and the county 21 Dec Wednesday Styler said he did not know what was on Willis’ agenda "But we do want to tell him if Rollins is interested in coming into the county they'll have to do so as the result of an election" he said “If they happen to win the election they can come in but then they have to continue with the permitting process and all the hoops they’ll have to jump through anyway" Styler said if Rollins decides not to locate in Millard County there will be e no ckvinn “Wr’ie not going o go to the expense of an election which is three to five thousand dollars if they say they ’ve decided against pursuing it anymore” he said The conditional use permit issue is also scheduled to appear as an agenda item at the regular County ommission meeting Tuesday Dee 2' in rillmore "1 think we’re going to accomplish everything with this that we would have with the initiative ascomphshed anyway” Droubav said Waste dump limit in Utah asked The Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Committee has recommended a limit be placed on the number of hazardous waste disposal facilities allowed in the state came at a The recommendation meeting of the group in Salt Lake City Friday Dec 9 The vote to ask the state legislature to pass a limiting bill was unanimous hile no specific number some committee was mentioned members said they did not believe a market existed for more than two or three hazardous waste incinerators in Utah It is estimated one incinerator could handle all the hazardous waste produced in Utah There is only one in operation today “The policy question is whether we take wastes" Brent Bradford said “And if so how much'’” Bradford is director of the Utah Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste Elected lawmakers must answer the question Bradford said not appointed committee members Committee member Gerald Maloney said it’s “scary" to allow the free how to determine market many facilities get built ‘‘There’s a perception that Ltali will be the dumping area of the United States” he said "There’s a perception that we’ll accept them with open arms Maybe we ll only have two or three but the state ought to establish a limit” Maloney is former mavor ot West Valley City A proposal by Rollins Environmental Services Inc to build a hazardous waste incinerator at Lynndyl is one of four such proposals The others are two in Tooele County and one in Grand Counts The state legislature will also be to appropriate enough monev so the Bureau of Solid and Haatdous Waste can hire a inspector tor each built hazaidous waste facility that The committee also noted heated disputes over the issue in Millard and No solution to the Grand Counties strife was recommended list of minimum site A quirements lor hazardous waMc land fills and mcrieratoi' wa- appioveJ ill be tor bidden within live While sites miles ot a home stream or lake the committee has been criticized lor tail mg to recommend a similar but let zone around national pa’ ks montoiium on siting per mi's is in effect until the oaic vJn develop siting criteria the committee's tack Deadline tor devevlop ne the critera o Mas 1989 Old buses concern officials by ken Rand of the buses that Almost carry an estimated 4"’0O0L'tah school children each day do not meet federal safety Department of Transportation standards established years ago according to a recent siudv The latest figures show 480 of the 15'76 school buses used bv I tah public models school districts are “That gives me a greai deal of concern” director of state pupil KeunC Clayton said “It really bothers me to think that we would let that type of thing come about in out state” Among those shcool district' with ake the most outdated buses are Sal’ Jordan Nebo and Davis Granite W’asatch Garfield School District has w the worst record ith 5' percent ol its fleet of 14 buses built before 19’"’ Daggett and San Juan county school districts are the only districts in L’tah that don’t use any buses Ot the 40 school districts in the state Millard ouniv is 22nd in the number of buses in use Millard has 38 buses eight ot which are o! the districts 3600 About 25 students ride buses to and trom school Millard Districi Supermiendent BLM page 2 Public notices There are 18 public service and 12 ot this notices on page issue The ndude 2 notices to creditors 6 notices of trustee sales a notice to contractors decision involving summons cattle grazing the new county code ot ordinances a zoning ordinance a Sheriff s sak notice a zoning users to water meeting and notices of interest of Oak City to residents Eillmore and the Fire District r |