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Show Kaiparowits Power Project officials to address Chamber of Commerce Representatives of the Kaiparowits Power Project for Southern Utah will be in Ce'dar City on March 4, 1976 to bring the public up to date on the present status and prospects for this giant electrical generating venture according to Garth Jones, Executive Secretary of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. A no-host noon luncheon, sponsored by the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, to which city and county officals and citizens of the area are invited and encouraged to attend, Will be held at the Town and Country Restaurant. Present to review recent development, and to state the Kaiparowits participates present position, will be 0 Jay Ortega, Manager of Power Projects, and Karl Gulbrand, Acting Manager and Engineer of the Kaiparowits Project, representing Southern California Edison Company, Los Angeles; also Douglas Prerice, Utah Resident Engineer, representing Kaizer Engineers; and Wayne C. Evans, Vice President of David W. Evans Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah public relations office for the Kaiparowits Project. A meeting to clarify the position of the project is ex-pecially ex-pecially timely, according to Secretary Jones, because of a promise by Secretary of Interior, Thomas S. Kleppe, to make a decision to approve or disapprove disap-prove the project early in April, and to make the site for the proposed plant; also because of a bill now before congress to amend the Clean Air Act of 1970 in such a manner that final authority to build Kaiparowits, or any other . major resource development in Utah, including large mining, smelting, milling, manufacturing, and industrial plants generally could be deligated to federal, not state or local authorities. Passage of this measure in its presnt form, could delay or preclude many or most of the proposed major projects for Utah according to Mr. Jones, whether present federal and state ambient clean air standards stan-dards can be met or not. Another subject, which will likely come up at the Cedar City meeting, is the clarification of the announcement which was made by an official of the Southern California Edison Company late in December that, because of the problems in obtaining ob-taining regulator approval of Kaiparowits, additional costly planning and preparation activities ac-tivities in connection with the project, would be delayed one year, and that final decision to construct would be with-held until the Secretary of Interior's decision becomes final and possible subsequent court action to delay or reject the project has been judicated. The Kaiparowits Project has had the strong backing of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and the people of Southern Utah since it was first proposed a dozen years ago. |