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<br />.'-' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.( ~~ <br /> <br />- 24 - <br /> <br />'-' <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />measures so narrowly is to violate both the terms and the <br /> <br />spirit of NEPA and its implementing regulations. <br /> <br />Surely, the authors of the draft EIS must have <br /> <br />realized that a meaningful discussion of the relative <br /> <br />costs and benefits, including but not limited to monetary <br /> <br />factors, of placing the plant in Bonanza or in Rangely <br /> <br />cannot be limited ,to a recognition that, if the plant is <br /> <br />placed in Bonanza, there will be a genuine imbalance of <br /> <br />costs and revenues in Rangely and Rio Blanco County. <br /> <br />Surely, the same planners must have realized that a vague <br /> <br />and unsupported assertion that such imbalances might be <br /> <br />redressed by Oil Shale Trust Fund or severance tax rev- <br /> <br />enues is nothing more than a red herring, for such funds <br /> <br />are simply not available to the County or to Rangely to <br /> <br />begin to mitigate the impacts caused by the power plant's <br /> <br />'construction. Similarly, the preparers of the DEIS must <br /> <br />have realized that Deseret will have considerable incen- <br /> <br />tives to begin construction of the second unit as soon as <br /> <br />possible for air permit and construction cost reasons <br /> <br />and because it may well be able to sell any electricity <br /> <br />generated in excess of its own needs -- and that an <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />038.[ <br />