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Show Fewer battle heats up , UP&L's new plants, UP&L wants the consumer-owne- d systems who took the gample on hydroelectric power 20 years ago to give up their rights to that power. In its application to Western of last April, UP&L threatened to bring a lawsuit claiming constitutional rights violations if Western refuses to sell it power. CREDA has responded to this charge in a detailed legal brief prepared by the Washington, B.C. law firm of Duncan, Allen and Mitchell, which refutes UP&L's constitutional claims. The legal analysis also argues that Western is required by federal law to allocate power to municipalities and cooperatives before selling any of it to private companies like UP&L. UP&L wants these laws overturned so that it can obtain an allocation 0f n, RW- - and n'i) successful, October f! hrnidredsofco V affected by marketing CRsp 'V appearing JJ JM - ? Herman ' Intermountain (? J ' Association, it Another salvo in the "aval war over federal power generated on the Colorado River was fired this week. Consumer-owne- d electric systems which presently purchase the power from the Western Area Power Company's request for the power. Western, an arm of the Department of Energy, is presently considering proposals for the marketing of power from the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) when current contracts expire in 1989. The consumer-owne- d systems, members of the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (CREDA), countered UP&L's claim tli at its electric rates will decrease by as much as 25 percent in 1989 if UP&L. is permitted to purchase power from the CRSP with an engineering report showing that UP&L's rates would more likely decrease by only 5 percent, while CREDA's members' rates would increase by up to 150 percent. For example, the report shows Provo's rates increasing by 118 percent at a cost of nearly $12 million per year and Dixie Escalante Coop's rates rising 152 percent for a cost of $3.2 million per year. Together the consumer-owne- d systems would face additional costs of $100 million per year. In a letter accompanying the engineering and legal analyses of UP&L's application, CREDA President Stanley K. Bazant charged that UP&L was like a "johnny-come-lately- " home buyer who wants to avoid 1980 housing prices by evicting owners from homes they built and financed at 1960 prices. The consumer-owne- d utilities have been repaying the federal government for its investment in the CRSP since the 1960's, foregoing the option at that time to build their own, less expensive power plants. Now that power can be obtained from the CRSP more cheaply than from 3Sf-r-- ' if" ; , ' I J . J."i ' J ,!. . . r" '. 1 & J f" , L ; n 1 f-- JL y- - ' 1 1 V.-- L - . o ; v-- -- i THE EMPTY LOT on the southwest comer of Main and 100 South will not be empty much longer as crews begin law offices to be built on the s.te. digging the foundation for Harding and Harding Firm begins coestraction The law firm of Harding and Harding of Pleasant Grove, has commenced construction of a 2200 snuare foot structure at the corner firm's Pleasant Grove operation. The firm is engaged in the general practice of law with an emphasis in municipal law, per: i sonal injury and wrongful litigation, real property litigation, corporate law, estate planning and family law. of 100 South and Main Street in ? Pleasant Grove, for the purpose of 1 expanding its operations at the j firm's Pleasant Grove location. j The building being constructed by Hamann Construction, is expected to be completed by March 1, 1984. The building will thereby enable the law firm to continue to expand its legal services to area residents. The firm is currently composed of four lawyers, Ray M. Harding, Sr., Ray M. Harding, Jr., Rollin Thorley and Greg Stevens, and will add a fifth lawyer, David Shawcroft, in December. The firm's current offices are at 58 South Main Street, Pleasant Grove, and 306 West Main, American Fork. Ray M. Harding, Jr., a partner in the law firm, who is currently serving as Pleasant Grove City Attorney and Lindon City Attorney, in addition to serving his private clients, will continue to head the FREE DELJVgjl on all stock computer supplies j Ribbons "Continuous paper . i Forms Flexy diskettes V"""'! c Binders Magnetic tape I j Labels Disk packs fer""' Give us a call for fc 'j-- l 't service when you need it. tTTiy n EBS ELECTRONIC BUSINESS SEBWrw 'ji 1055 E. 500 So., PI. 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Vernon Greenland We care i tttt? bank otAmerican Fflf - y,jA s aoout you mMD Amcrica F. City named in suit for $2.5 million Pleasant Grove City has been named in a $2,510,000 lawsuit filed Oct. 20 in Provo's Fourth District court by the parents of a youth who was killed in an accident at the Round-Abou- t Raceway. Also named in the suit are Liz Willingham, Don Willingham and five John Does. The suit charges that Cory Dixon, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Dixon, Salem, was killed as a result of negligence in the July 31, 1982 accident. The youth was killed when he was run over by the wheels of the watering truck used to keep the dust down on the dirt oval track located near the Pleasant Grove Rodeo Grounds. The suit alleges that the water truck and the track were negligently designed, constructed, managed, maintained, supervised " and operated. It also states that the truck was not in safe condition, the racetrack was not maintained in a safe condition, and inadequate warning and instruction was given to those attending or working at the track. The suit also claims there had not been developed emergency response procedures and there had been failure to maintain adequate emergency equipment at the race track. It was reported at the time the accident occurred that the youth had been assisting at the track on a volunteer basis. There was no paid help at the race track. Reports stated that according to Liz Willingham, track manager, all workers at the track had been told to stay away from the water truck when it was in use. At the time of the accident it was reported that the Dixon youth had been walking toward the water truck while it was spraying the track. He apparently slipped and fell beneath the wheels, witnesses said. |