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Show Environmental protection plans for Page plant to be discussed E. Hancock, Director of Community Com-munity Relations for the Salt River Project of Phoenix, Arizona. Ari-zona. The Project will be the constructor-operator of the generating station. Hancock's presentation then will be followed with technical techni-cal presentations by specialists special-ists in the fields of pollution control, transmission line construction, con-struction, and enviromental design. Ground was broken for the start of construction on April 21. The three generating units will go into operation in the spring of 1971, 1075, and 1976, respectively. "Air pollution control equipment equip-ment for the generating plant is required by contract to have a design efficiency of 99.5 percent," said Crandall. "Provisions have also been made for periodic modification of existing equipment or addition addi-tion of new equipment to further improve the plant's control of emissions." Environmental protection plans for the Navajo Generating Gener-ating Station near Page, Arizona, Ari-zona, will be discussed Friday, Fri-day, June 12, during a meeting meet-ing in Cedar City, of federal, state, and local agencies and individuals wth responsibilities responsibili-ties or interests in the field. The meeting will be held at 1 p.m. in the Auditorium Lounge of Southern Utah State College, Cedar City, it was announced by David L. Crandal, Regional Director of Region 4 of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Mr. Crandall explained that the Bureau and the five utilities utili-ties participating in construction construc-tion of the 2.31 million kilowatt kilo-watt plant are vitally interested interest-ed in the environmental, aesthetic, aes-thetic, biological, and ecologi-cal ecologi-cal aspects of the plant. "Exchanges of information at meetings of this type between be-tween the participants and other interests, particularly in the arcas of air and water pollution control, will assure the necessary coordination in all areas of concern," Crandall stated. Participants in the facility, in addition to the Bureau, include in-clude Salt River Project, Arizona Ari-zona Public Service Co., Tucson Tuc-son Gas and Electric Co., the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the Nevada Ne-vada Power Co. An overall description of the environmental protection plans for the half-billion-dollar Navajo Project will be given giv-en at the meeting by Stanley |