Show 'fV:- a Inside Focus Enterprise Generation X grows up See Page 23 Cache WUey makes mark in cow circles See Page 10 A ouniaJUA oJ if ii amd does EnappeM liere 14 earn Moth lab ByRyanRahbOlvor ' busts staff witter Tha number o( methamphetamine lib butts throughout UnHBd8MNln1985 this She was young' married with two children and had a job Statistics would indicate Kim was a good candidate to be a methamphetamine abuser And she was She sold it as well " For one Salt Lake City drug supplier Kim said she was his biggest dealer Methamphetamine sales in Cache Valley were brisk and Kim was making a lot of money “My life was drugs” she said “My kid didn't matter my husband didn’t nutter" ‘ : Methamphetamine Worked its way into Kim’s life in 1990 It wasn’t popular then but now the drug recently made big in Criifereia has hit the country like wildfire and is blazing its way east And despite what many may want to believe Utah has been as resistant to its flames as a Rocky Mountain forest in August If ribbons were being awarded for the number of methamphetamine lab seizures Utah would — — 1‘ — ‘ hive come in third in the nation in 1995 with 29 busts according to the US Drag Enforce- ment Agency California and Missouri placed first and second Since then the number of labs discovered by police has only continued to rise in Utah Last year 64 were Misled and the DEA is estimating ISO to 200 labs will be seized this Mrtmrylvmiiw gnwwwwty crank or speed It could also be called the drag because unlike many drags most of it is brewed with a nasty but legal list of ingredients in the bathrooms and kitchens of America Leave it to America to brew one of the most ‘"”1 versatile drugs Methamphetamine can be The longer high and the esse with which meth can be made are pushing cocaine to the wayside as the drag of c‘ ment agencies in Cache Valley and the West are reporting that more methamphetamine possession arrests are being made than for any other illicit drag except marijuana “I don't know how meth came in but I know it win never go” Kim said For Kim meth started as a party drag But in no time she said she quit her job and look up e drug abuse as her occupation Snorting meth wasn’t paying her bills so Kim said she began to sell u as well “For me it was an emotional need" Kim full-tim- said MI inhaled through the nose swallowed smoked or injected into the human body A new user can get a one-lin- e high that lasts for days for — a much longer-lastinsaid Kim 125 only bightthan cocaine can offer: See METH on Page 14 A ctaanup nightman — Page 14 fiVater users N-wa- ste Me for well license in works moratorium H Faatharstone Charlie By ?! Utah Power and the Bear River Water Users Association have filed a petition with the Idaho t 45 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has accepted a O of Witter Resources ' V'" JT:- - “Idaho recognizes the need to conjunctively to protect senior water rights” said Norman Youag a water wife management Idaho Department of Water - j j ttttntor fuel rods The rods are so radioactive that exposure to them for more than 10 seconds could be fatal They remain deadly for up to 10000 years Both Utah' Power and the s group which repre- pent the largest ud oldest water tights on the Bear Rivet are concerned that new wella drilled along the Bear River would deprive them of the water they hive the rights to use Idaho and The NRC now will begin a lengthy process to determine whether to grant Private Fuels Shortage a license to store the waste on the Goshute Indian Utah are using a U5 Geological Survey study sfaowiag that every Reservation in Skull Valley about 65 miles southwest of Salt Lake City If built the waste repository drawn from a well can ' gallon mean a gallon leu on the Bear Rivet Young arid howevet that the we were and Idaho mu Garth Kidman of Beavar Dam above operstsa a 1911 Case steam maa-ageme- nt area — to help regulate the number of commercial 24 wdl appiicationa in weBs-Currentl- - state officials On Monday Dianne Nielson director of die Utah Department angina tractor that rune of Environmental Quality petitioned the NRC to reject the license application saying it nwcnra w i irarang rwImM Vi iNnWI Oneida Franklin Cariboo and Bear Lake conntiea are being VIO LMng— Historical Farm In L WJJ VvMMMo OH aflHBy hi the photo at right Dan Olson left slacks the barley in the wagon as The proposed moratorium would only apply to commercial weBs wells lor industry large-gcae irrigation or le multi-hom- lacked substantive information That same day however Mark Delligatti who manages the spent-re- el program for die NRC decided the license application Thomas CariMe and According to - was satisfactory rnMnwooMynoj) pool snoots or oonoy Young private wells for twe wouw not be Idaho yon do not have to worn Hia vo nova wnon In m wagon is Had a team of homes puls k tom the ta laU gal- IBua IkMalihiA raoioramsrang lons a day or less for a home nvenra Wk ins afoMahUa Hvosnsig haal tlia oononus hvii ms aaaJtaa Div iaJg and irrigation for half an acre” See WATER would become the first central interim storage facility for spent nuclear (tad in foe United States The NRCs decision to proceed with die licensing process irked They way dais are looking at other options — such as a ground-wat- Youag said “That’s 13100 It was the first significant bureaucratic step for Private Fuels Stonge a consortium of seven utilities whose nuclear power plants are running out of storage space for spent on-si- te Water-user- subdivisions licensing application filed by utilities that want to store high-lev- el nuclear waste in Utah out-of-st- twndBriwMBciBaa fat the Bear er didn’t have many friends in high school but when I began to seU it I became important People were always needing me “I was so advanced in it I had a pager and Private Fuels Storage project manager Scott Northard praised the NRC's prompt decision “especially in light of recent published opposition to our filing” State officials were not so glee-fu-L Nielson had By sent a terse letter to Commission Chairwoman Shirley Ann Jack-so- n ’s asking her to overrule mid-we- farmuntlAug2 an Page 14 rnoDSsynoDsnnvnanawnvranaioumB ek Delli-gatti- decision Correcting Utah Corrections Optimism high as new prisons director takes helm r Nielson complains the state wassaubbed "NRC procedures have eviscerated any attempt by the state of Utah to bring legitimate concerns before the NRC" Nielson r to be This represents a drastic The commission now will Gnade already had given change” schedule a series of public meet-taAnd Gnade isat foe only one Haun's hand an exuberant shake on foe application It also SALT LAKE CITY— It was a and offered hearty coagratula-- who thinks so will begia work on an “Will there be changes? Yon statement sad on a startling sight: An executive between caa bet on it just because Pete is detailed safety evaluation report warm The Utah's director of exchange prison system IJ gripping and grinning with the taditional foes this past week not there" said Paul W Boyden a( Connie Nakahata who leads a head of the state's American only was rare it earned at least local prosecutor and former Haul stare task force formed to oppose nuclear-wasthe whiff of an impending sea colleague on the- state Board of Civil Liberties Union chapter storage - t ta Utah said Nielson has sent Pete Jfoun Gov Mike Leavitt's change ta the troubled Departfc’fywn 60 was appointed dsh chdce to guide the most ment of Conectioas Copies of hr lettef so uefttbert of ' for foe board foe ta I$I9 man Utah’s congressional representafirst "We’re bf in state pardoal optimistic photo ungovernable agency t mired said ta Guide a ta to time” tives ta the hope they will put a time hand the fig politics system long si i office taking government OoirsclonB his chisf poses oulskis talking flats Haun Utah's new on Jackg ta ACLlTa Carol Grade ta both later "Considering what we’ve the on Gov Leavitt was In Haun Utah by Murray appointed vMMMty ’ : foe have We ta on See PRISONS 4 worked with he looked of Page past saying truly By MB Carter Associated Press Writer ‘ forward to working with her gs environ-meatal-iinp- act -- - ' " y high-lev- el te ( ' hta-sn- POOR COPY w v d I'JIV7 A W—l1 UUUUbMUM r |