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Show R0LL0 Glyph ics Government intervention and government bureaucracy has again thrown a monkey wrench into the proposed Kaiparowits Power Project in southern Utah. Utah. After years of study, of planning, the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statements - with an indication that the Department of Interior would make a decision on the project early this year (1976) -the National Park Service has now stuck its nose into the matter and through another avenue has proposed still another study be made on the same project. It's not enough that the Bureau - of Land Management has drug its feet on the preparation of the EIS over the past several years, but to add insult to injury, still another division of the Department Depart-ment of Interior, (he National Park Service, is now considering another study. 'Two agencies within the same department of ' government proposing two seperate studies on the same project. It's no wonder that the government is in debt. Why, at this late stage of the Kaiparowits Project, does the National Park Service decide that they too must get thier nose into the matter? mat-ter? Oh it's a logical conclusion on their part - the right of the government to control developments within a 60 mile perimeter of nationally controlled con-trolled lands so that the air quality within those areas of responsibility might be protected. A changing of the air quality standard required around national parks within a 60 mile perimeter could vertually eliminate all major development of energy sources within the state of Utah -- a state that is already 83 percent federally owned. An announcement last week by the developers of the Kaiparowits Project that it will be delayed for a year is undoubtedly un-doubtedly a response to this most recent bureaucratic manipulation to discourage and distract from such a development. develop-ment. So how do you fight the issue, and the issue to me is the die-titorial die-titorial control that varous government bureaus have over the people. Whether you agree or disagree with the development of the Kaiparowits Project it would seem that the interference of government agencies in the proposal and the apparent attempt at-tempt at delaying any action by the Department of Interior, is contrary to the rights of free enterprise and the rights of citizens generally. The question is: How to fight the red tape? When one looks at the efforts, by individual people, at the expense of their own time and money, to bring about a decision to extend the in-park accomodations ac-comodations at Zion and Bryce Canyon National Park -then try to extend that effort to what would be necessary to convince the government of what the people want in regards to the energy developments in Utah - it amounts to a staggering, almost unattainable effort. But it keeps going on. People must continue to become involved and they must express their opinions for or against - such projects and issues. Otherwise they will continue to be shoved down our throats. I subscribe to the rationale of Representative Garth Jones when he states that people must be responsible for their actions. By - making those who would delay or prolong decisions on such projects as Kaiparowits be prepared to accept monatary responsility for such delays should they be proven wrong, may be a means to an end of the red tape and delays that come j about on these issues. |