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Show i . Thursday . 109th Year March 8, 2001 t: - - x Hfl i - No. 20 -- rSi u.'oWhKUM rf A ' ; : 4& - PliC6f Utfill ; 50f Petersen mcalvea book from grant, O ' ? '. i-- ' - . .... : : , V , . ' - ? s; . Check out the newspapers website at www.sunad.com or calf 6370732. - j affect residents living in the .. -" . ' : , county but not in Price. , In May, 2000, a 4 percent rate increase went Into effect, whichpushedthesivep-agcost per kilowatt hour to $8.05 in the residential Its no secret to Carbon Countyresktents. Electricity and natural gfts costs are ; and taking a larger ' rising ririflwitfam. exof (bunkout the monihiy Last mOnththestate's penses than before; But for some residents, the monthly public service commfaskm increases have been less approved an interimrate in crease of Operoent outofa than for others. For example, Price resi- ' requested 17 percent hike d dents are seined by ah The 9 percent increase system operated by the dty Price purchases 12 raised the rates to $6b70 per kilowatt hour. If Utah percent of the dtyselectrio-Jtfrom WAFA, which is low Powers fall request is. apcost hydro powerproduoed proved. the'rates will in at flaming Gorge. The re- ; crease to $7.20 per kilowatt mainder of ihedtys supply hour fa September comes from Utah Power & Y But Eskdsen pointed out light but at wholesale rates: that the prices fa question v are lower thin the 1985 rate price pays $.07 per hour forthe.WAPA of $83 per kilowatt hour power and $7.70 per kilo-- , ffestatedthat.fatbepast ,10 watt hour for UPAL .deor years, rates have been going down as costs were de-- administrator fern fining efficiency measur-jkmqs indicated that he cant remember the last wholes and there was an abunsale power rate increase. dance of surplus wholesale The rates are controBed by power'.: : Now that the FERC ip Washington, D.CL, surplus fa whilethe retail rate for gone, it is driving the price of electricity are. of edectricBy up agsfa, far controlled bythe state's pub--. nce 1985, power rates Be service commission. ; ; Jones explained that, have decreased 16 time. According to Questar (tout fouryears ago, whole i sale power rates were do-- : that creased by UPAL, which there are ' affect natural gas rates.. were passed on to the can sumers. In 1999, Price low.The Brat dealswith the ; ered electrical rates to bring cost of natural gas and the the city's fees more in line increases are passed on to to the rates charged to the consumer fa a dollar for UPAL customers, : dollar fashion, fa other Jones pointed out thai, so words with no markup. ; far, the current rate unriest . The Becond dealswith in the United States has pot operational costs and the exaffected people whalive in pense associated with " Price dty and, to date,heha8 Tnnintainlngtinoa Last August, Questar Gas received no indication that their whdesate power hfte received a 3.8 percent in,, will change in the near fu- - crease fa general rates that went toward the cost of do.fare. I'.' And that correlates with ing business. what was stated by Dave: InOctobei; rates went up 12.7 percent to cover inUtah Power A Light in Salt creased gas costs. And on Lake. Eskelsen reported JaiL Ltheguoanpanyffled that he was unaware of any for another increase of 29! plans for a wholesale power percent passthrough in- increase.. Omprnan wphdiwd that ; . UPAL has implemented retail rate increases re- projections show moderate (Continued on page 14), cently The company's rates 'x- - AVIfestJdrdaniimnisflieeighfapei son arrested fa 20Q( for allegedly ar ranging on die Internet to have sexwith ' amhuu: :v. According to the criminal com- plalntbeSOyearuld defendant posed :.'V e : : : A :A,: kflo-toa- tt Completing pressurized Irrigation system requlreswelders a pressurized irrigation pipeline through Helper is almost complete. The polyurethane pipe is sections. Byron: about 1.25 inches thick and comes in 50 is woriung toe fusing madsiw that is used to connect the ends of the pipe. The machine damps the two ends of pipe and The instanatkm of new M . be-Mi- fla : . . . . K if $ .fl-- - hi - -- - f - Tf f v By RICHARD SHAW -Staff reporter ' v. "agenda.' . r"' i , - RS-247' " "met many of the roads in By RICHARD SHAW r Staff rqwrter ' ; : !.. ; ' V.- , The roads fa question , The individuals drive around fa a county vehicle with a strange, looking fall under RS2477 and it fa important to the county to , keep the roads open. domed antenna on the top of But to keep the roads infile cab. tact, the byways must be .; Usually there are two documented. Hie best way to docupeople traveling fa the vehicle at one time. They stop ment roads fa with agfabal frequently in the middle of positioning system. the road and the passenger , Once the plot points are geta out to snap photos of established, they are tied to such objects aj signs, pipes a grid on a computer with sticking out at the ground,, photos of the access that pop cattle grates, intersections up when the hot links are vil i . t i I and other features of the landscape.- - As people drive by the county vehicle, they look at vriiat the Individuals are doing: They usually scratch their beads and drive on. Hie service the individuals are performing is plot- ting the roads fa Carbon County Roads that the federal government is making ' the county prove it needs. . . N fa fr ' .x Y Ar Matt Wise and Mar Kroger from the Carbon County Geographic Information Systems office use a global positioning system to select a starting point I for a local mapping projectThe GIS office is mapping the road up Harmon Canyon. The area is located just off of Nine Mile Canyon. . . V clicked. .. The mapping system , : ' - Involves. For a rancher, Roads the county must prove have been used for years and will be needed in thefoture. Last yeai; Carbon entered into a class action lawstiit with other counties fa the state to prove that local governments have jurisdiction gives the county its lawyers and the federal government something tanble to deal with in the process of examining if a road to a county road. Whether a road seems important tokeep or not depends an who the matter , back country access is important Fbr a recreationist, the same roads are ImporN tant to you. The lawsuit fa basically an attempt by the Utah coim--. ties to establish local governments' ownership of the 7 roads. If a county does not have RS-247- ; : the counties. ; " . . GIS crews focus on mapping 7 wads in Carbon area V : - " mV The Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Admfafatration and the United States Bureau of Land Manage- - ' ; ment have completed a 212,000 acre. ' landexchangeanthcHtsedbytheUIS. ' Congress last yrar. Tim state transfomd tide to 10000 of school trust lands faride fed-- , acres ; . eral wilderness study areas.(WSAs) to the BLM, while Utah received a siml-- ; lar quantity Of BLM hoklingB. r As part of the exchange, Utah also transferred a 483 acre parcel ofschool trust land immediately north of the dty of St George to BLM for inclusion in the Red CSiflkdesrettwtdse reserve. The exchange was based on a May 2000 agreement between Gov. Mike Leavitt and former Secretary of the In- terior Bruce Babbitt' . According to officials, the purpose (g the agreement was to reduce con- -. ilicts between the development of school ' truri lands, which by law must be man-- r grevenue for public education, uid preservation of lands fa Utahs west desert for wilderness ,v study and recreation. : Locations fa Utah where the BLM received school trust lands included the jmoof that aroad exists and Deep Creek Mountains, the Notch Peak fa used.lt can be dosed. ;; ; area and several sites surroundin Once the information fa ZkmNistionalFsriL : gathered fa the field, it is fa retorn, the school tru8tadminfa-- : brought back to the GIS of: received several large parcels' tration lice for assessment and reoflandfalboeleCountyanarraadja-- : finement. The system the cent to the fatermountaln Power Plant county uses fa accurate, hut near Delta and several small parcels V adjustments still have to be of development land near SL Gfeorge ". made fa the office to get it Cedar City and within a few inches of the As part of the legislafion ratifying correct spot where readings the agreement, the UJ3. Congress reare taken. ' BLM to submit The dieckpointssre creJ quired Utah and the to an independent &p--' data valuation ated by the simple triangupraisalexperttoevaluatewhetherthe lation of the satellites sig lands (meechside of fae exchange wvre nals the GPS reads fa the of approximately equal value. field. ' Tberequfaementwasintendedtoad- When theAm Advocate ' third (faesscoocerasexiRessedby paraccompanied county emties that the parcels being acquired by were picking ployees, they Utah were more valuable than the wil- up seven satellites on the derness lands being transferred to GPS system. Depending on BLM indicated the state and federal of-- . where they are, the number ' flriala can vary fa a canyon with After reviewingavariely of data, to- steep walls, the crew may satel-Hlmultiple sates of comparable ! es duding to have wait until the lands, the independent appraiser con- - ' move fogetagood read-firmed the parties' conclusion that the ,f fag on each side of the exchange were lands Even though Carbon fa worth approximateiy $20 million, and. geographically one of the - ' smaller counties in the . that the exchange lands are approxi' in value. mately equal state, the road mapping repHie administration fa an indepen-- : resents a big project. dent state agency which manages 3 conCarbon officials million acres in trust lands exclusively an sider mapping for the benefit of Utah's schools and Important step fa the ongoother public institutions. ing efforts to protect access into all areas of the county ' . 1- . trust iand exchange ;v .?' . an 1 - the audience sat quietly 1 ( Z '' The Sunnyside Council through the first six city met Tuesday and the small matters. ThenVfernon introtown had was packed with duced the water system so many people that the city agenda item and allowed ran out cfadrs to seat ev--: Kathy Rea five minutes to eryone. It appeared that talk about the issue. Rea said Bhewas responmore than 120 residents showed up for the meeting sible for getting many of the mainly because of one item people to attend die meeting on the agenda the towns and she hoped there would be a way to get the water' new water system. I wish wed had this rates down: Rea asked if manypeople at the meetings otherresidentscouldspeak when we were trying to de- and the council agreed. , One woman roul her letcide what to do about the Coun-dlinter about Sunnyside, wliat a system, commented ; plaice it was to wonderful Eugene Wmon,who was actfagin place of Mayor live and howprlcfagsuch a BruoeAndrews.: commodity as water so high : VTbisi not apvbUc bear- oduld be the death pf the ing meetfag pointed out town. She asked that water femon. We have already and BOwer rates be returned had those on the system - to the past levels. She sugsue. We will conduct tola gested that a task force be meeting according to the set up to determine the & . Afterthetoeettagstarted, ' '"W -- try-jng- to ; - !' A The prosecutfas are also ooucerned ; about the sheer number of adults make arrangements to meet with ' The suspect fa facing one Fbderal Count of coercion and enticement frv. illegal sexual activity Hefaconsiderad .innocent until proven guilty fa aoourt XT 4 : 'sanmageasthetatendedvfctim.:. minors..;.'; twtt-factor- s ' ;v . . 'fuse. The new bond js Stronger than the pipe, according to the. ' weiders. lt takes about one-ha-lf hour to complete one wekL moves them into place. A scraper blade then toms until both ends are perfectly parallel. A heating plate is then insetted rs tofusepipe between the two ends. The plate is heated to 500 degpn and the ends of toe pipe are brought in to touch the pfete under 500 pounds of pressure. After five minutes of jieatingtoeends pn to rod back. The heafing plate b removed and the two ends of pipe are forced together for anottre 15 or so minutes to let them 32-in- ch - ' : : . , i - r . V - ' : ... ' 13-ye- ar dee-trie- . ; conversations on a com- - , ; puter chat room withapersonwhohe ' old gfrL c thought was a T griwa8fu;faally an undercover agent working for a spedal taskfOTce : overseen by the Utah. Attorney "i. I Generals Office. The suspect was ai ; rested last week after reportedly ap-- v proadifag a police decoy at a Murray I oonveoienoe store, The criminal complaint states that ) ttftifafwiAinirinilttwl tnriiritlngBh a l&year old girl on the Intonet and arranging to meet with a ' ;V-for unlawful sexual activity State prosecutors indicate that the;. rase should be a warning to parents because the suqmot was able to quidfiy , : arrange to meet the girl and he gave , the teqiresskm he warthe about the ; : con-sume- white havingsexu- - asal7-yearb(y ; A ally explicit 1 y i. State prosecutors H file eighth Internet i case against adults J : By KEVIN ASHBY ;.w Sun Advocate publisher f:, . : . . ; , ... . s . j . i . ( ' . . . RS-24- 77 . |