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Show Public Meetings to air Coal-related activities A series of public information in-formation meetings will be held starting May 9 by the Federal Task Force preparing two regional environmental impact statements on proposed and potential coal mining and other coal-related activities in central and southern Utah, a U.S. Geological Survey official announced this week. The public meeting in Cedar City will be held May 10 from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. at SUSC music recital room, Cedar City. Edward S. Davidson, U.S.G.S. geologist-hydrologist, geologist-hydrologist, Salt Lake City, and leader of the Task Force, said the purpose of the meetings was to allow the Federal officials to describe the proposed developments and to permit the public to submit their concerns and comments. The U.S.G.S. is preparing the impact statements on proposed Federal actions on pending coal-lease applications, ap-plications, industry-proposals industry-proposals for development of existing Federal coal leases,, possible future competitive sales of additional ad-ditional Federal coal leases, and other applications to the Interior Department for various coal-related facilities and activities. Other agencies participating par-ticipating in drafting the statements are the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Mines, all in the Interior Department, and the Agricultural Department's Depart-ment's Forest Service. Potential impacts on the natural and human environment, en-vironment, particularly on water, air quality, socioeconomic conditions, wildlife, vegetation, cultural .and esthetic resources, recreation, and transportation, tran-sportation, are to be identified iden-tified and projected to the year 1990. |