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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1974)
NTEC studies sites Power plant hearing tonight By GALE ROHDE Of the Emerald A year ago February, during six hours of intensive hearings, Eugene citizens tore apart the Oregon Nuclear and Thermal Energy Council's (NTEC) state wide siting survey. Today NTEC is trying again. At 2 and 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at Eugene City Hall, there will be public hearings to discuss the task-force report which classifies various areas in the state as either "suitable" "less suitable" or "unsuitable" for fossil-fueled and nuclear-fueled power plants. The Willamette Valley is classified as one of the three suitable areas. Until these area studies are complete and approved, NTEC is required by law to wait three years from the time a company files a "notice of intent" to build a power plant before it grants the "siting certificate” permitting it to build. Hearings have already been held this year in Tillamook, Coos Bay, Klamath Falls, Ontario and Albany, and another hearing is scheduled for Portland on Thursday. Originally no hearings were scheduled for the Willamette Valley this year, but after receiving complaints, NTEC scheduled the Eugene, Portland and Albany hearings. Since many of the changes called for at last years hearings have not been made, some of the same issues may be raised this year. One of the major objections to the study last year was that it was incomplete. State Sen. George Wingard, R-Eugene, who helped write the law that put NTEC into existence three years ago, felt that the task force hadn't done nearly as comprehensive a job as the Legislature had intended for it to do. IFC budget released; appeals to begin tonight The Incidental Fee Committee (IFC) has completed the final draft of the incidental fee budget for the 1974-75 fiscal year. The decisions were made on the basis of two months of hearings, research and deliberations. Appeals will be held tonight and Wednesday from 7 to 10:30 p.m. in 337 EMU. IFC Chairer Terry Kay said all students who wish to voice their views on any of the allocations should attend, since the budget will be submitted to the University President Robert Clark by the end of the week. Here are the requests and allocations for the coming year: Agency Action Now Alert As.an American Student Association Athletic Department Black Student union and Black Graduate Council Black Cultural Center BRIDGE Chinese Student Association Drug Information Center EMU Environmental Design Student Association ESCAPE Eugene Coalition Executive Budget Foreign Student Association Forensics Fraternity Expansion Gerontology Association Graduate Student Council Health, P E , Recreation and Dance Housing Office Incidental Fee Committee Inter Fraternity Council International Education Center Journalism Student union KWAX Legal Services Legislative Coordinators and NSL Man and the Oregon Coast MEChA Migrant Labor Project Music Muslim Student Association Native American student Association Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon Prisoners Coalition OSPIRG Panhellinic Pre Health Science Center Recreational Folk Dance Repertory Dancers SEARCH Student Administration Board Student Bar Association SESAMEX Student Information and Grievance Center Survival Center Switchboard Tax Table Third World Coalition University Feminists University Theater Visiting Professor Program Student Request S3,700 *2,453 *7 *4.300 79 *150.000 *11.051 44 *12.500 *5.000 *3,660 *6.973 26 *665.310 t2,000 *10.069 40 *12.660 *71.364 34 *11.774 60 *9.550 1130 *485 *3.352 26 *1.405 *4.458.09 *1.626 50 *7,185 49 1650 *7.267 14 *20.000 *4,994.44 *450 *6.040 49 *15.525 *1450 *3.535 *8,843.04 *54.160 12.927 04 *41,000 *1.744 12 *839 *1.381 63 *4.650 *9,043 58 *2.856.04 *19.454 61 *3.000 12,255 *4.485 02 *1,680 *670 *19,310 15,730 *7.000 *15.023 84 IFC Allocation 12,073 11.964 II 12,041 1150.000 16.723 29 (A) (A) 1750 12.751 II 1570.304 1130 M53I 40 4) 152.956 91 11,403 16.900 < B) 1110 11,605 10 1130 14.499 66 144.588 42 <B) 16.465 59 1150 11416 520,000 (G) 1450 14,182.21 (C) 11.850 -0 54,43* 70 154.160 11.549 02 141,000(0) (B) 1120 11,131.63 13.200(E) 17.663 12 15,796.00 (A) 0 13.663 29 1613 5666 73 0 11.280 57.000 0 (A) Combined into Educational Opportunity Services, and will receive $7,500 it the administration contributes $15,000 (B) Account set up with housing office (C) Allocated $750 within MEChA’s budget (O) $1,000 of the total will be taken back by the ASUO if OSPlRGs state board provides a salary tor the chairer of the Executive Committee S2.440 will be held in reserve and paid by the IFC If they feel that OSPIRG has shown "good performance overall and increased visibility at the University." (E) Will receive an additional $500 from ASUO if the administration agrees to allocating a matching grant. (F! $38,040 is held in reserve for programs. (G) Included in Executive Budget He said that the report had condensed a study into five months that many authorities thought needed at least five years. It covered only four of the eight areas set forth in the law, omitting among other things, the meterological factors. Other groups agreed with him and added that even the areas the study included were not adequately covered. The study covered land use, water use, population con siderations and geology. Land use, people complained, was limited to defining parks, wilderness areas and wildlife areas as "unsuitable or less suitable. Water use was confined to consideration of the existing water restrictions rather than considering future availability. Population proximity studies failed to consider population projections beyond the year 1986. This year's draft of the State wide Siting Force Report includes meteorological considerations, but it does not use them as a basis for classifying the Willamette Valley as unsuitable for nuclear power plants. Although admitting that ventilation is a problem in the valley, it says it is not a factor in the placement of nuclear-fueled plants. The draft also includes a short addition about geothermal power plants. Even if the task force had made all the changes called for in last year's hearings, there would be testimony this time. Changes will probably be called for that will challenge NTEC's entire mode of operation. Mike Sayre of the Survival Center complains that NTEC starts with the assumption that we are going to have nuclear power plants and that its only respon sibility is to decide where to put them, he feels NTEC hasn't addressed itself to the health hazard. Tim Shelley, one of two Vida brothers circulating a petition to establish a six-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants, complains that with the present set-up, there is no op portunity to discuss alternative methods of conserving power or methods of conserving energy. Both intend to be at the hearings. The future power committee will be represented again this year. Chris Attneave says she will continue to bring up the same issues. Meteorology, she feels, should be considered in the case of nuclear power plants, both because of the fog that will be produced by the cooling systems and because of the necessity for pollutants to escape in the case of an accident. She feels that population is still an issue and that growth factors should be integrated with land use planning. In considering the i placement of plants, she feels that NTEC should expect industrial growth and should consider whether the area can absorb it. At the Albany hearings, she said, NTEC's environmentalist had said that there is no association between the location of these plants and of other industries. Each of the two hearings began with a summary of the study, complete with slides, according to Attneave, so it is possible to attend the hearings and to testify without having previously studied the report. Century 22 Pub SUDS Till 2:30 am Pool-Dimers 8 - 9 nightly 8th and Willamette AVOID [wake up HAVE BREAKFAST ANYTIME 7 am to 5 pm Mon - Fri Closed Saturday and Sunday Two Eggs Hash Browns Toast, Coffee 90 cents KWAX 91.1 FM -Stereo with PL-3 Television presents (University Consort LIVE \ 9 p.m. tonight Cinema 7 & 96 present Tonite Thru Thursday A new film by Kurt Vonnegut Mr Vonnegut s night terrors o very funny hour and a half L IFF MAGAZINE Featuring Bob and Ray Bill Hickey and Kevin McCarthy Directed by Fred Burzyk. 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