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Show BOR staff mcreaises BOR staff for the Central Utah Water Project office in Duchesne has ' RATES GOING UP Under consideration by the Duchesne ty Council is the water and sewer rates for the City. increased by 15 personnel since March and is expected to increase another 15 in the next couple of months according .to Jim Smith, BOR public relations 'officer. , Increased employment by BOR will be due to new contracts being let by the Bureau stated Smith. An increase in contractor personnel will follow the letting of bids, but the areas contractor personnel might be located in are uncertain at this time. Most of the contractors would probably be located along the Wasatch Front," Smith said. Ten new trailer homes are being purchased by the Bureau to house additional personnel and are scheduled for delivery within the next 60 days Smith stated. The Bureau presently has 89 mobile homes in their camp area. Some of the trailers are set up as bachelor quarters and house from one to three men per trailer Smith clarified. Ci- VOLUME 67 NUMBER 31 The rate the Bureau is paying for water from the City of Duchesne at the Bureau trailer camp has been an issue of debate between members of the city council in recent weeks. The original water contract between the city and the Bureau specified a $10 per . . hookup charge with an overage (exceeding 10,000 gallons per month) charge Smith pointed out He stated the city changed its billing to the Bureau last spring .by setting a $200 minimum charge on the two meters serving the camp with an overage charge on top of this. I understand (the city)...is now going back to the individual trailer flat rate effective August 1," Smith said, Water and sewer rates sre under scrutiny by the Duchesne City Council in light of increased revenues which are needed to balance the city budget, One consideration would be to raise water rates for certain customers including the Bureau according to Mayor Lefler. 1979 August 2, 033 UINTAHlBAS I N UtsoJk Nike wastes worth tdffiois if ised tote - National -- Rural - Electric . being-give- to divulge its source of funds. and other facilities needed to provide ' in his prepared statement, dc future electrical requirements of a the Crater as a nonprofit, public! interest lobby organizational specializdemanding public, we could experience serious power shortages, higher ing in energy and natural resources at energy costs, weakening of the the federal level, says the rural economy, and mass unemployment cooperative association. Partridge explained that "a very Doyle also made reference to a high percentage of the homes that will study of rural electrification being be in use in the year 2000 have already made by the Environmental Policy been built To retrofit them for solar Institute, according to. the NRECA, energy will be extremely costly and the origins and purposes of which are difficult And only a potion of the equally undear. NRECA spokesmen homes built will be able to use guess that both the Center and the alternate energy technology Institute grew out of Ralph Naders of location and for many other campaign agaiAst nuclear power, and reasons. that their interest in rural electrificaNRECA a balanced tion is aimed at trying to keep supports program of rapid, organized and cooperatives from entering into joint realistic development of solar and nuclear generating projects with other alternative technology, coupled private power companies. The NRECA states that Nader with continued support for a systematic, orderly development of coal and announced at one of his Critical Mass nuclear resources, Partridge concludemonstrations in Nov., 1975 that he ded. Anything short of this win have was going after the REA guaranteed loan program in an effort to prevent disasterous results." NRECA states that Sen. Paul joint generating projects. . who conducted the Tsongas hearing, made no effort to hide his r feelings. The hearing provided a friendly showcase for the Environmental Policy Centers Jack solutions to alternative" Doyle's Americas energy problems according to RNECA, and the rural association says the Center seems to be opposed to central station electricity, which is to the rural electric program.. The Federal Land Bank reached The Center has no responsibilities to $2 billion in loans outstanding which is electric consumers, NRECA states, ir a major highlight in its of yet Doyle delivered 17 pages P. to electric rural history, accoring the George testimony criticizing Bloxham, President, , Federal Land cooperatives and outraging Partridge tn(f others who are intimately Bank of Sacramento. Mr. Bloxham attributed the increase in business to .involved in efforts to help consumers conserve power, and get it at the the rising demand for long-tercapital by fanners and ranchers. lowest possible cost. The Federal Land Bank of SacraNRECA' further .charges that a mento is part of the nationwide, 12 refused on Crater spokesman July cooperatively owned , Farm Credit System. The bank is privately fended through the sale of Farm Credit bonds to the investing public and is not a government agency. The Federal Land . nation for one does not believe this nation should forego tiie building of breeder reactors according to testimony July 18 by' NRECA Executive Vice President Robert D. Partridge before the Senate Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Supply. We believe in a total energy equation, Partridge said, appealing for the prudent use of our nuclear, coal, oil and. natural gas." Partridge stated using nuclear wastes to fuel breeder reactors is one bf this nations best '' bets. This represents the essence of energy wastes conservation. These have a value in energy...of $20 trillion. They represent the energy equivalent of more than double all of the oil resources of the UPEC nations or 2MJ billion tons of our best coaL.We are wasting in the U.S. 99.8 percent of our nuclear fuel which can be utilized fully if we build the breeder reactor. President Carter has vetoed the breeder reactor, a nuclear power plant that produces as much fuel as it uses in favor of lightwater reactors which .produce only wastes. In defending his action. Carter stated terrorists might gain control of plutonium from a plant and use it to manufacture atomic bombs. The U.S. government presently stores all its nuclear waste at high coat and a high risk for periods exceeding 100 years. Unrealistic impressions are to tiie public, Partridge that solar and other continued, alternative technologies can be put into ptaM quicHy and economically andwill soon make a major contribution to the nation's power needs. Our concern is that if this should result in the lack of construction of additional power plants . anti-nuclea- . city-own- ed toys claim With 66 percent of the land, in establishment of forts, magazines, Utah federally owned, Utah is arsenalsf dockyards and other needful following Nevadas lead in demanding buildings, a Supreme Court ' Case that Congress relinquish all federally-owne- d (Pollard V. Hagan, 44 U.S. (3 How.) public lands to the State of 212 (1845), conditions under which Utah by enacting legislation that Texas was admitted to the Union in would return to the state a specified 1845, and the Northwest Ordinance of quantity of lands from the public 1787 in backing up its claim. domain each year. Utah claims the high percentage of federal land ownership in the state Nevada first dropped a similar bomb on the BLM in early 1979 when it violates the interest of the state in demanded return of all federally-owne- d that it seriously restricts the state's tax base, and limits nonfederal control public lands. The state legislature of land within the borders of the passed a law which will temporarily state. In addition Utah claims, the place 49 million acres of federally controlled land under state jurisdiction people of the Territory of Utah were in 1981. Some Nevadans feel they compelled, as a condition to statehood, might have to arrest a BLM officer to disclaim these lands in favor of the under the new statute for illegal Federal Government (Enabling Act, of Utah, ' Section 3; Constitution supervision of state lands to get the Article III). Nevada claim into court. The federal In the case of Pollard V. Hagan, the government has claimed sovereign renunciation avoided in and a the by the federal governimmunity past ' ment of claim to unappropriated lands suit in the courts. ' Utah ranks third among all the by Alabama was held to be void and states (with the exception of Alaska inoperative by the Supreme Court because it denied to Alabama an for which no data was available) in the amount of land that is owned by the equal footing with the original states." Resolution H.J.R. 6 states The federal government. Hawaii is first, 97 percent; Nevada, 87 percent; Utah, 66 State of Texas, when admitted to the percent; Idaho, 64 percent; Oregon, 52 Union in 1845, retained ownership of all unappropriated land within its percent; Wyoming, 48 percent; California, 45 percent; Arizona, 44 percent; borders, setting a further precedent ' Colorado, 36 percent; New Mexico, 83 which inured to the benefit of all states admitted later on an equal percent; Montana, 80 percent; and Washington, 29 percent Five percent footing, and (3) the Northwest federal ownership is the approximate Ordinance of 1787, adopted into the Constitution by the reference of average for other states in the Union. At stake is 84,856,135 acres of land Article VI to prior engagements of the within Utah borders. Confederation, first proclaimed the A federal land to state resolution 'equal footing doctrine, and the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo by which (H.J.R. 6) was passed by the 1979 general session of the Utah State the territory, including Utah, was acquired from Mexico, which is the Legislature. The resolution cites the Constitution of the United States supreme law of the land by virtue of (Article L Section 8) which provides that the Federal Government shall acquire lands within the states only through purchase and with the consent of .the state legislature for the Article VI affirms it expressly as to states to be organized therein; and Whereas, the people of the State of Utah are denied equal privileges and immunities with those states which came into the Union Government without the Federal owning or withholding public lands. A breakdown of cash receipts collected by the federal government in 1976, the last year complete records are available, from lands and resources in Utah was as the new follows: all mineral receipts, grazing, $1,406,112; sale and rental of lands and material, fees and services, $914,292; $3,452,618; and miscellaneous, $55,787. This is a total of $25,142,170 in federal revenues. Payments to the state of Utah from public lands revenues amounted to a total of $7,635,907. $19,313,861; Build a still If your interest in gasohol continues to rise with the price of gasoline, you may want to fed: into the possibilities of building your own gasohol still. Plans for a still are available from Scott Sklar at the News of Citizen Action on Energy and Appropriate Technology Office, 1520 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. With $10 worth of materials, Sklar converted his 1964 Rambler to run on pure alcohoL A diagram for a still is available from Pat Torgerson of Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE), Lambert, Mont. 59489 or call (406) 462-259- 6. Farm and Ranch Loans by Fed Land Bank up be 62-ye- m Dick (Richard D.) Olsen, Rt service June 22, 1979. Mr. Olsen had been' employed for (25) years as an Animal twenty-fiv- e Health Technician by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A retirement party was held June 21, in Salt Lake City for Dick where he was presented with a memento of friendship and recognition by his many ' and friends. follow Dick's contribution to animal disease control and eradication in the Uintah Basin will be greatly missed, says Richard R. Bowen, P.V.C. Because of personnel ceiling limitations, Veterinary Services states it is unable to fill this position. If Veterinary Service can be of any assistance to the livestock industry contact our Salt Lake office Jou mayof USDA, APHIS, Veterinary State Capitol Services, Room ' Bldg., Salt Lake 84114. Phone is The Citizens Committee for the Protection of Property Rights, a organization has voluntary craw up with a program through which tiie citizens of Utah era do non-prof- it something about oppressive taxes, according to Sheldon R. Brewster and of M.' McKinnon Smith, the group. . The vehile used to accomplish this is the Initiative and Referendum Law, which utilises signed petitions to have proposed laws put directly on the ballot fra the vote of the people. These petitions are now being circulated throughout the State, but more volunteers are needed to secure the required number of signatures. A new law removes the necessity of becoming a Notary Public to get signatures. The package consists of six proposed laws: (1) rebate on the 1978 property taxes over and above the 6 . ' B-4- 524-501- 0. Bank provides over 80 percent of all long-terfinancing for agriculture. Bloxham said that at the beginning of 1979, the agricultural economy was stronger than it was a year ago and that Land Bank borrowers have an excellent repayment . record. The number of loans in a delinquent status represented only 1.76 percent of the 20,873 loans outstanding and is at the lowest level since 1925. farm and The bank makes long-terranch real estate loans through local Federal land bank associations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. m m Taxes vs. inflation 1 ' Roosevelt, retired from government - RENTED? .), Olsen retires from USDA Dick Olsen recently, retired from the USDA where- he was an Animal Health. Technician for 25 years. BE to punfolc Eaumdls SERVING ALL OP DUCHESNE COUNTY. PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY The Duchesne City is checking into the stalls which lay idle most legalities of renting the of the year. TO . percent increase; (2) restoring property valuations to the January 1, 1970 figure, eliminating the unequal unfair revaluations; (3) replacing taxes on owner occupied with fends from the Sales Tax at the recall appointed officials can be recalled who are guilty of wrongdoing or failure to fulfill campaign promises; (5) enacting a severe nee tax on the removal of our natural resources with the fends dedicated to the Uniform School fend; of a direct primary, (6) law, enabling all citizens to participate, in the choosing of a candidate. All persons willing to do their share in securing petition signatures are urged to call or write the C.C.P.P.R. Headquarters, 8605 South State 8treet, Salt Lake 84115, telephone 261-233- 3. FALSE ALARM The Roosevelt City Fire Department was called to a false alarm fire 2 miles east of Neola Tuesday morning at a cost of approximately $50. Anyone calling in a fire should make sure the fire is ligitimate. |