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PAN mittm wMmvnm Ftfv i 2 I2P6 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday November UP&L suit challenges federal power allocations SALT LAKE CITY Liht Co and Utah Power (UPI) & Utah and Wyoming cities Friday federal court suit challenging power allocations from federally owned dams saying they discriminate against a majority of electrical users UP&L President Jim Taylor said the lawsuit seeks to correct the “inequitable subsidy" enjoyed by municipally owned and cooperative power systems that now benefit from federally produced power along the Colorado River Taylor said taxpayers in all cities pay for the federal projects and everyone should benefit not just public power systems Rates of UP&L customers could drop up to 25 percent if it receives cheap public power Taylor said "We all paid the taxes that built the mighty dams along the Colorado River" Taylor said “But in Utah only a select few receive the benefit of cheap power from those dams” But Larry Hobart executive director of the American Public Power Association which 140 filed a HE A files suit SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -The Utah Education Association the UEA's largest member and 10 teachers filed suit Friday against the state seeking to restore funding cuts ordered by Gov Norm Bangertcr "The nation’s most destitute school system is being asked to cut spending by 2 percent and we're suing to block that move" said UEA President Betty Condie The suit in 3rd District Court seeks to compel the state the Utah Finance Department and the state Board of Education to pay public schools all of the money appropriated by the 1986 Legislature Utah ranks last among the 50 states in the amount of education money spent on each child and Condie said "a reduction is unthinkable and unacceptable” frivolous litigation through their utility bills" Hobart said “UP&L is attempting to fool its customers by holding out a promise of substantial rate decreases if the law is declared unconstitutional "The APPA is confident the courts will reject UP&L’s arguments as without merit" Members of the Intermountain Consumer Power Association representing 28 city power systems and six cooperatives also pointed out UP&L pays slightly less for its wholesale power than public power entities but has much higher against state and un- actions taken to impound revenues salaries and benefits and she claimed local schools districts will be to unable purchase DELUXE QUAD uu Booth Gov Reagan showed little grasp Friday of the controversy surrounding Hanford as a potential nuclear waste dump and accused the federal government of another violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Gardner in a meeting with reporters said it was clear from Reagan’s speech in Spokane that the state received only “a light touch” from the president “on the most important issue for most people in this state” lie blamed Republican Sen Slade Gorton for “lacking the leadership” to stand up for the state's concerns “I'm not very happy today because I assumed the President knew something about this stop-wor- ahead “Why is the state having to blow the whistle in this?” Gardner groused Washington currently is pressing five lawsuits against DOE that complain about the process used to pick Hanford and sites in Texas and Nevada as the finalists for a repository said "I Gardner who has camissue” Gardner assumed he had been getting paigned hard for Adams in a information from our present race headlined by the Hanford senator That clearly is not the issue said he was disappointed that Gorton got Reagan out to case” The governor also released Washington only to have the new information indicating that president fail to make “any the federal Energy Department kind of a substantive statement had planned to test water flows on the issue” who stumped for Reagan deep in the basalt underground Gorton in Spokane said in his of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation without first notifying speech the senator has “gotten the state and holding public the ears of everyone back in the hearings as specified in the nation’s capital” on the Hanford waste dump issue and promised waste policy act Gardner said Rockwell Han- to make sure the law on selectford Operations the DOE’s ing a repository site “is contractor for drilling opera- followed to the letter” Adams blasted the Reagan tions was moving ahead with plans to use radioactive speech Tax Reform: Will it change your investment strategy? 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