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Show Interior Secretary Rogers Morton plans visit to Kaiparowitz site occasions," Son. Bennett said, "Wp are both anxious to get a closer look at the new site, whose natural barriers will riit'octively screen the plant from public view at Lake Powell, Pow-ell, the city of Page, and the Lake Powell Recreation area." "I undedstand that even with a stack as high as 500 feet, no part of the iplant will be visible from Highway 89," Sen. Bennett added. "The Kai-parowtis Kai-parowtis power generating sta tion will be the largest in the world, and will provide a great boon not only to the economy ec-onomy of Kane County, but all of Utah," Senator pointed out. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah, R-Utah, announced today that he was delighted that Secretary Sec-retary of Interior, Rogers Morton, Mor-ton, had accepted his invitation invita-tion to fly over the new site for the proposed Kaiparowits Power Project in Kane County. "I feel that this new site should serve to answer many of the ob jet ions the environ-orientalists environ-orientalists have raised against again-st the construction of the plant," Sen Bennett said. He explained that better metero-logical metero-logical conditions could toe attained at the Nipple Bench site which is approximately 1,000 feet higher than the Warm Creek site. 'In addition this location would avoid further fur-ther concentration uf electrical electric-al facilities near the shores of Lake Powell and furtlwr encroachment en-croachment of transmission lines on the Glen Canyon Recreation Rec-reation area. "Located In one of the most remote areas of the least popu-lated popu-lated county in Southern Utah the plant would be out of sight of the general public, away from a concentration of population, away from recreational recre-ational areas, and away from heavily traveled highways," the Senator added. "Although both Secretary Morton and I have visited the Kaiparowits Plateau on other |