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.
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