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Show Utah Power And Light Tells Of Major Building And Plant Improvement Plans Utah Power & Light Company has announced an ambitious '73 construction budget of $100 million - an investment representing some $324 for each of its present 308.000 customers. Company president, E. Allen Hunter, said this year's construction budget, highest In utility's history, is necessary to provide essential supplies of electricity, the maintenance o a high standard of reliability throughout Its service area and , for environmental controls. UP&L's 1973 budget includes outlays for generation, transmission, and distribution plus environmental controls and be-autificatlon of facilities. The lion's share of the construction budget is earmarked for the first unit now under construction at UP&L's Huntington Plant in Emery County, but heavy construction will take place throughout the .oar-state area. The utility's 1973 budget for Idaho Snake River Valley totals $6.2 million; In southeast- ern Idaho, $1.0 million; in northern Utah, $4.4 million: in Salt Lake area, $12.8 million; in eastern and southeastern Utah, $67 million; in west central Utah, $2.5 million; in southwestern Wyoming, $4.0 million; and budgeted for its subsidiary company, Western Colorado Power, $1.5 million. Largest items projected for environmental control are for installation of electrostatic pre- (continued on back page) (continued from front poge) dpltators at Huntington, Nau-ghton and Carbon Plants. Expenditures of two million dollars for preliminary engineering and environmental studies on plant sites are also included In the budget. |
