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Show Air Quality to Be Discussed At 2 Hearings Garfield County coinmissioenrs and local community officials banded together this week to urge county residents to attend public hearings on visibility in national parks. The Utah Air Conservation Committee has scheduled a series of hearings for next week to allow the public an opportunity to express feelings on proposed state regulations for the protection of visibility in national parks located in I Utah. Federal law requires the visibility in national parks be protected from visible air pollution. Local officials have expressed concern that the proposed regulations may include expansion of "buffer zones" and "integral vistas" concepts around existing national park lands, national recreation areas, and wilderness areas. The state's proposed regulations will establish requirements to be administered by the Utah Bureau of Air Quality to control air pollution emissions which may affect the visibility in the parks. If the state does not present its proposed regulations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by May 6, the federal government will assume jurisdiction under federal regulations. Hearings will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 in the courtroom at the Sevier County Courthouse in Richfield and on Thursday, March 28, in the Thorley Recital Hall, 3S1 West Center Southern Utah State College, Cedar City. Oral statements will be taken at the time of the hearing, but for the accuracy of the record, written statements are encouraged. Written statements postmarked by April 1, 1985 will be included in the hearing record. Requests for time at the hearing and written statements should be addressed to: Executive Secretary, Utah Air Conservation Committee, P.O. Box 45500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0500. |