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Show IPP head laudsClean Air Amendment "I was encouraged that the House of Representatives Represen-tatives faced a tough planning question and adopted an amendment to the Clean Air Act that would give states with rugged terrain the flexibility needed to plan for balanced development," ' stated Joseph C. Fackrell, President, Intermountain Power Project (IPP), after the House accepted an amendment on the Clean Air Act. The change would allow a variance from the proposed Class I and II air quality standards for up to 18 days of the year. "The House action recognized that even well-planned well-planned and environmentally-conscious projects would not always be able to meet the strict Class I standard proposed under the bill. Probably the best example of this is the Intermountain In-termountain Power Project. IPP would utilize the best available pollution control technology, be sited to minimize plant visibility, meet all existing environmental en-vironmental laws, and burn low-sulfur Utah coal, yet it could not meet tfce proposed , Class I standard for approximately ap-proximately 13 days of the year". said Fackrell. "These are days when the prevailing winds, which normally blow away from Capitol Reef National Park, would blow toward the Park with enough persistency that some emissions would reach the Park. Fackrell stated, "Most people do not realize that natural cuases, such as dust particles, cut the visual range at least in half during 20 percent of the year". Fackrell said he believed that the local residents .would-be,. pieced jtfjtb.the, amendment. "Citizens of Southern Utah are strongly interested in the hroject ana tne new employment em-ployment opportunities that it would provide their families", he said. However, Fackrell expressed ex-pressed concern that "no-growth" "no-growth" or "non-development" "non-development" policies for southern Utah would further depress the area's economy and restrict employment opportunity. He said members of the Sierra Club who toured the plant site on May 22, stated they were generally opposed to "any development" in southerni Utah and that the "Club has adopted a . resolution opposing the construction of IPP. |