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Show Final regulations announced for managing federally-owned coal Final regulations for managing federally owned coal for timely development through an environmentally acceptable manner were announced Wednesday by Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus. A Federal Register notice July 19, completes the proposed and final rulemaking procedures which began on December 15 1978, with a published Notice of Intent to Propose Rulemaking. The proposed rules were published March 19, an amendment concerning consultation with the Attorney At-torney General was published, with a 30-day comment period. Comments received on Federal coal management rulemaking fell into these categories: Those received on the Draft Environmental Impact Im-pact Statement on Federal coaL management which were received too late to be considered in the Final Environmental Impact Statement. Those directly related to the coal management rulemakng which were received too late for consideration con-sideration in writing the proposed rulemaking but were considered in writing the final regulations. Of the 13 comments in this category, four were from State and local governments, govern-ments, and four were from Federal agencies. The remaining five were from a law firm, an invironmental group, an industry association, an industry source, and pivate individual in-dividual The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Five County Association of Governments, headquartered headquar-tered in St. George, Utah, an additional $26,900 to continue a water pollution control project, Congressman Dan Marriott (R-Utah) today announced. The in-termunicipal in-termunicipal project, located in Beaver, Garfield, Iron, Kane, and Washington Counties, is part of the state and area wide water quality mamagement plan. Current phase of the project includes a budget of $481,200 of which, with today's action $455,900 has been awarded thus far. however, there may be complications with the thingamabob connected to the gobbledegoop which is parrellel to and also adjacent ad-jacent to the jingalinga thing. Thus we see that no matter how hard we try to make the gobbledegoop gob-bledegoop and the jingalingathing parrallel to one another we become disengaged at the thingamabob. Therefore the Environmental En-vironmental Protection Agency will never allow such a thing to exist unless it can pass inspection in their Thingamabob Testing Center, made especially for this type of testing, at a cost to you the taxpayer of several billion dollars, which you didn't need anyway. Not to mention the several hundred employees which it takes to operate the Center. Now we see that if 1 percent of one gram of oxyh-droglyoxidogen oxyh-droglyoxidogen is released into the atmosphere, the human race will be in danger of extinction, not to mention the woundfin minnow, which we all know-takes know-takes priority over the former. If, therefore, the several hundred employees of the Thingamabob Testing Center can accurately discern if this is possible, and they don't all die in the process, we may rest assured that we can resume the progress Of this magnificent invention which will revolutionize the breathing process of the snail darter, which will insure the growth and development of many hydroelectric projects throughout the contry, not to mention the world, of the EPA and their efforts with the five environmental impact statements, comprising com-prising 7,059,362 pages of study and research, all in our behalf. Thank You, |