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Show DAILY Friday, August 29, 2008 Carlos Nels Magnesium plant proposed Jacobson for Superfund list by EPA Jake returned to his Heaven- ly Father August Wilburn James Brown DEATH NOTICES tnrui Merit Beasley Johnston, age 91, of Provo, passed away Wednesday, August 27, 200ft Funeral services are pending and will be announced by Berg Mortuary, 185 ft Center, ftwa 373-184- 1 ' Wilburn James Brown, age 75, passed away quietly at his home Aug. 27, 2008. Services . . Steel - SALT LAKE CITY The Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose adding the site of a Utah, magnesium plant to the Alvin Clegg Harding, age ' of Orem, passed Sway on Wednesday, August 27, 200ft: Funeral services are pending and will be announced by Berg Mortuary, 185 E. Center, : , E, Pleasant . er .. -- 920 S. 1680 UT 84062. The EPA says hazardous materials at U.S. Magnesium's plant in Tooele County pose a threat to workers, wildlife and the environment. Adding the 4,500acre site to the Superfund list would allow the EPA to order U.S. Magnesium to pay millions of dollars for a cleanup. , The EPA plans to make the proposal next week. Federal officials say the hazards at the site include dioxins, metals, acidic waste-watand others. ; "We want to make sure (plant) wastes are disposed of in ways that will protect human health and the environment, "said Gwen Christiansen, an environmental .. scientist who works on the agencys Superfund National Priorities List. Company officials say the EPA isn't following pro-cedures and isn't correctly reading science or the law. ' "Protecting the environ- merit and our people must be , part of every business decision we make, said company President Mike Legge. . .. . . . , 83, ! . ... . Itova 27, 200ft One of seven children Jake was bun in San-- ; taquin, Utah May 16, 1927. He was a Veteran of the US Army and retired from Geneva Jake is survived by two broth-- : ers, his wife of sixty years Roberta, three children, four grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren He was pre- ceded in death by his parents, ' three sisters, one brother, and his eldest son Doug. ... "The boys will meet you at the first tee. A viewing will be Saturday, may call for a viewing one. ; ; hour prior to services. Inter-- ' August 30, 2008 at lftOO a.m. ' merit will follow.the services at at the Hoiladay Brown Funeral Home in Santaquin, Graveside the American Fork City Cemservices will follow at 1 etery under the direction of at the Sant aquin Cemetery. Otpifl Family Mortuary, PleasCondolences may be sent to ant Grove. Cordon L Eastman, age 82, of Mapleton, passed away August 27, 2008. Services are pending and will be announced by Sundberg-Oipi- n Mortuary of Orem. 373-184- ' II HERALD Grove, . . . : Scott Sonner there are no services at all from cities in Nevada. Sale of the 5295 tickets to Nixon to Gerlach. You have one : hour of nothing, Allen said. gain entry ended on Tuesday left lot will and tickets "And Man a of RENO. Nev times the at Burning any along call gate at the event have to be there, theres not a lot of shoulorganizers have contracted with the Nevada Highway Papicked up by noon on Saturday. der space. Sometimes you are trol to provide a dozen or more : "It has been a gradual trend just dead in the water when you of folks heading out there since runout of fuel or have a me-extra troopers a day through chanical breakdown," he Said, ; the weekend to assist motorSunday. The numbers start to ists and help keep a remote Most of the calls so far have, jump up beginning Friday," g Alien said. .stretch of state highbeen related to flat tires, "And then on Monday isthe .: out of gas, overheated ' way safe between U.S. Inter: state 80 and the counterculture mass exodus. Although some ; engines and other mechanical .. festivaL ' breakdowns. But there's also people leave early to get home and get back to normalcy by another hazard not many travel--' ..; Organizers of the celebration in the Black Rock Desert about Sunday night so they have a -- ers from the San Francisco Bay. Area or other big cities are used .120 miles north of Reno are day off before work," he said. Rachael Pryor of San Franto livestock on the road. paying $64,321 to cover a total "One year I had a bull in the ..: of 96 overtime shifts that began. cisco wasamong those loading up with supplies in Reno earlier road and that guy would not Monday and extend through. Labor Iky, Trooper Chuck' this week for the trip to the. move, Allen said. desolate desert. Allen said Thursday. Mast of As of Thursday, the state pathose are working this week' We have lots of water, she . trol had made only one felony end. A dozen extra troopers will told the Associated Press. "You arrest on the highway an be spread over three eight-hou- r need water out there. We also. Oakland,. Calif., man who was : shifts on Friday, 14 on Saturday, have goggles, lots of sunscreen charged whh possession of coIGon Sunday and 15 on Mon; and a lot of food. caine, Ecstasy, marijuana and The extra troopers are day, he said. drug paraphernalia. ... ' It will allow us to provide Rasheed Salik Lindsay, 38, on Nevada State Route a much quicker response to .447, the most traveled route to was going faster than 70 mph the event. It stretches from the about 10:30 p.nt Tuesday when stranded motorists and any about Wadsworth exit on crashes that take place on this a trooper saw him speeding ' 30 miles east of Reno, horth ,. and noticed he had expired Ii- - v two4one remote highway, Alien said. cense plates, Allen said. through Nixon and past Pyra- Last year. Burning Man drew mid Lake to Gerlach, just south . After pulling him over, the. of the festivaL more than 47,000 people to the trooper noticed an odor of nvar- makeshift encampment dubbed I There are no gas stations or and then learned that his stares the last 60 miles of the license was suspended, Black Rock City," which covers about 5 square miles north trip through highde$ert range.: he said. He was booked into the The most calls are for ser-Washoe County Jail and being of Gerlach and for one weekend is one of the 10 most populated vice assisting motorists because held On $4,085 baiL .. : THE ASSOCIATES PRESS - - Yjt0? GttianiM! . . Burning Man pays for extra NHP troopers Utah already has 24 Superfund sites. The public and the company will have two months to decide if the magnesium site should become the next one. The EPA could also try to revive a $1 billion lawsuit .. against the company that began eight years ago. A federal judge throw out much Of that surf about a year ago. The company also was the target of a $1.5 billion bankrupsuit brought tcy-trustee on behalf of investors who said they werent properly informed about the pollution lawsuit. ' Uft Magnesium was considered one of the countrys worst polluters in the 1980s. Since then, about $50 million has been spent on improvements and hazardous emis-sion-s have been reduced. Regulators, the company and its union also agreed in 2005 to do more to protect workers. A National Institute of Oc.: cupational Safety and Health evaluation of worker health found that while workers had dioxins, PCBs and other contaminants in their blood "the blood levels were lower than those associated with observable health problems. ; 33H5V.g3Ejv : (iHnramiiife . : ; : 74-mi- le defendant in lawsuit run-oin- . ' . . . . . . . . sta-tim- ed . . . - . ; Sia . . Utahsought to accept SALT LAKE CITY Utah 7 has agreed to become a defendant in a federal lawsuit oyer! ' whether EnergySolutfcms ' '. Inc. can import, foreign ra- dioactive waste for disposal, : low-lev- el waste in 1991, the state backed the company before " the compact. At Utah's urging, the ; eight state compact ruled here.-.- ' earlier this year that ' d The Salt Lake cant use its ' for nuclear waste disposal firm foreign waste. dump wants to import 20,000 tons However, EnergySolutions contends the compact has no waste from of Italys shuttered nuclear pro- authority over operations at gram for processing in Ten- - its landfill in Tooele County nessee and disposal in Utah. and has filed a federal lawsuit After processing, about 1.60Q asking fora judges ruling on.-.tons would be disposed at its the issue. Utah has agreed to become' Clive, Utah site. The companys application a defendant in that lawsuit, is currently pending before "The state being involved .. the Nudear.Regulatory Grfnv irt this case makes a lot of sense, said Lisa Roskclley, mission, which asked for ' GoV. Jon Huntsman's spokesinput frotnthe NorthWest ' Interstate Compact on Low-- . woman. ' EnergySolutions general level Radioactive Waste, of counsel Val Christensen said; which Utah is a member, Utah joined the Northwest that the company has no obcompact in 1982 under a plan ject ion to Utah joining in as a by Congress to promote re- ' defendant. U.S. District Court Judge gional solutions for waste. Ted Stewart must sign off on the request to add Utah to the When Energy Solutions, case. then called Envirocare of : City-base- . low-lev- . ilia W " . 11133' t Wl .. . ' . , . . low-lev- . Recycling Continued from B1 national spokeswoman for The Home Depot, of the company's pew fluorescent bulb recycling .. program. "It is something a lot of customers and even associates in the stare asked for and that is where the idea came from. ... We certainly see a need for a convenient drop-olocation for CFLs. The Home Depot also now sells CFLs that use less mer- cury than CFLs sold by other .stores, she said. "They actually have a much lower content of mercury than the industry standard," she said. "I think it is noteworthy. We just want to make sure we are doing the right thing." Susan Hayward of Waste Management said many con- - , sumers are just becoming aware of the dangers of both breaking fluorescent bulbs in the home or sending them to the landfilL White the Waste . Management recycling program does cost money, I etimi- nates the need to travel with the bulbs to a dropoff point, potentially breaking them in a car.. "The problem is remember- ing to take them and getting them there without breaking them, she said. While throwing fluorescent ' ff . . - . . . ; bulbs away in your trash is still of the average electric bill, and the U.& releases 104 metric legal in Utah County, it is not tones of mercury emissions recommended, said Rodger' Harper, manager of North v each year; much of it from coal-fire- d electrical power Pointe, the north Utah Valley waste transfer station. ...... To begin its own recycling program on the county level is prohibitively expensive, ' ' he said, and he encouraged residents to take advantage ; of recycling offered by The Home Depot, Ikea and Waste Management, Marsha McLean of the Utah Valley Sierra Forum said she was unaware of the new fluev rescent bulb recycling options in Uah Valley and encouraged all residents to begin taking advantage of them immediately. 7 "We want to encourage people to use the bulbs and take them to be recycled, she said. If we can drop them off at Home Depot that would be plants because mercury occurs naturally in coaL Cutting electric demands by using energy-savin- g bulbs ultimately saves mercury from being released into the air by power plants. "Mercury released into.the ' air is the main way that mer- cury gets into water and bio. : accumulates jn fish, according toEnergyStar.gov. "Eating fish contaminated with mercury is the main way for humans to be exposed While the average CFL bulb contains enough mercury to cover the tip erf a ballpoint pen, "most mercury vapor inside fluorescent light bulbs becomes bound to the inside of the light bulb as it is used. The EPA estimates that the rest of the super. McLean's plea for residents mercury within a CFL about 11 percent is released into to not just recycle he bulbs but to use them as much as ' air or water when it is sent to ' possible in homes is echoed by a landfill, assuming the light bulb is broken, according to both the Environmental Pro- tection Agency and by Ener- - '!: EnergyStar.' Additionally, the average .! gyStar.gov. While fluorescent bulbs may bring toxic mercury mercury content in CFLs has into homes and local air and dropped 20 percent in the past ' year as technology has imlandfills, they ultimately cut the amount of ihemiry emitted proved and government and environmental pressure has nationally. . That is ecause lighting ac-- . come to bear, according to Encounts for nearly 20 percent ergyStar. . . . . . . . the Utah Department of Commerce would review any complaints of price gouging. The Continued from state is supposed to routinely the national average was $3.66 monitor pumps and investigate price gouging, but Huntsman gallon. AAA spokeswoman Rolayne spokeswoman Lisa RoskeDey said I was bringing a laserFairclough said Utah's relalike" focus to Is duties. isolated Mountain Rocky tively State authorities suspect ' market can work both ways Utahs prices often are lower gas stations are padding their than the rest of the nation in prices. Twb weeks ago, the winter when gasoline demand Utah Ftetroleum Marketers and eases. But for much of the sum- Retailers Association admitted toThe Associated Press that mer, prices here stayed well above $4 a gallon. operators were "making a little more than usual" in anticipation Responding to consumer of slimmer winter margins. . outrage, Huntsman called out On Wednesday, however, the weights and measures inspectors this month wlh all the the groups leader blamed the rest of the supply chain and flair erf a National Guard devigorously defended gas sta ployment. He also announced Inspections B3 iM .. Office hours Continued, from B1 ... "111! recreation rey bn the building and are just as crucial to residents as city offices. "The whole reason for the building is a community cenv ter," she said, Brady said the city wanted to be able to expand Is hours , of availability, and the fact that many other governmental offices would be doing the same was a factor in the decision. Once the public is accustomed to state offices working on a 410 schedule, they may plan their city needs accordingly. "People might get used to coming into a government place earlier or later, she said. . Seth Perrins, assistant city administrator for Spanish Fork, said his city had similar issues when I went to a 410. schedule in 2003. The city eventually moved to a nixed schedule to allow residents to come to the office every day of the week, but Perrins said the cky never shut down Is buMng entirely either be-cause I is shared wlh courts and other services. "Spanish Fork didnt go to 410 to save on utilities, he said. We went to a 410 based on feedback and observations. UJWlt - Bradshaw said the idea came from city employees, who had discussed a 410 schedule option but felt they should not deny access to residents who need to visit the offices on Fridays. The staff generally felt they were here to serve the public, not to arrange hours that are convenient to the staff," he said. Mayor Laurel Brady said the city against the increasingly popular 410 schedule because the City staff members are not the Sole users of the building. Closing the city office building would not be ; feasible because several other groups rely on the facility. We would not realize any savings whatsoever by going to the 410 schedule because in our building we house the Utah County Bookmobile," die said. The Bookmobile is an in- dependent organization that would remain open Fridays, so any savings in electricity and other utilities would be avoided. Various services, such as the library and adult . : . . . . ful of price gouging complaints that amount to "just grousing, said Franc ine Giani, director of the Utah Department of Commerce, who said she had little power to lower prices. She urged motorists to strike back. I tell my friends who com"Hes some neighbor supporting the soccer team or highachool plain, What kind of car are drama club and trying to make you driving? They've got the a living. Hes not the major big old Suburban, Giani said. I sold my Suburban last year, oil company making record and I take fewer trips to the profits. The day after Huntsman's grocery store. We need to announcement, the state's com- change our habits, and stay the merce chief said she received change. Asked what weights and multiple reports that gas prices had dropped six cents, hinting measures inspectors can do to at the power of the governor's curb high gas prices, Kunze laughed. AD they can do is bully pulpit. make certain that whatever Since then, however, the state has received only a hand high price stations charge, they : . mm . dispense the correct amount tions he says make only pennies per gallon in the best of times. "The retailer is a neighbor, even for brand-nam- e gas stations. Hes not major oil John Hill told The Associated Press. of gas. . Pump accuracy is no worse now, inspectors say, than during times of lower prices. The team says pumps work to motorists favor 97 percent of the time. At the Top Stop on Salt Lake City's Foothill Drive, Kunze found that the pumps shorted motorists no more than 4 cubic inches of gas less than half a cup for every five gallons. Inspectors wont take a pump out of service unless I shots motorists 6 cubic inches or more for every five gallons. Michelle Andersen, manager of the Top Stop convenience store, didn't sweat the inspection. nr - 0,: . l l( - -- f Is I I III1 I , ",iYvV i - ' |