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Electricity source for Bryan
By CAROLYN BLOSSER
Battalion Staff
WHY RENT?
About two miles from the intersection of Highways 30 and 244 in
Grimes County lies the site of Bryan’s future energy source — a
lignite-burning power plant.
The 400-megawatt lignite plant is being constructed by the Texas
Municipal Power Agency (TMPA). It will produce electricity for the
cities of Bryan, Denton, Garland and Greenville, none of which are
in Grimes County.
The four cities formed the TMPA in 1975, following an act of the
Texas Legislature which allows public entities, such as cities, to
create a separate power agency. The TMPA is headquartered in Ar
lington.
A power agency formed under this law has certain governmental
powers, including the right to issue tax-free revenue bonds. The
legislation puts no geographical limits on its area of operation.
The plant is scheduled for completion in 1982, said Robert Mur
phy, director of administrative services for TMPA.
With the rising cost of natural gas, lignite is seen as an economical
alternative to producing energy. Lignite is a soft, crumbly, porous
type of coal, and Texas has more of it than any other state.
But despite the advantage of low-cost energy, some
enviromentalists oppose the lignite power plants. The only eco
nomically feasible way to get at lignite is to strip-mine it, which can
destroy prime farmland.
State and federal laws require strip miners to reclaim the land, or
to restore it to its original condition.
The TMPA is acquiring 25,000 acres near the plant site to strip
mine, Murphy said. Some of the land has been purchased, but most
of it is being leased, he said.
The TMPA has been testing the land for a couple of years, trying to
determine the best method of reclamation for that area specifically,
Murphy said.
Another disadvantage of lignite plants is air pollution. Lignite is
especially dirty to burn because of its high degree of sulfer and ash.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Washington’s
bureaucrats are used to demon
strations — for peace, against nu
clear bombs and power, for integra
tion, against busing, for women’s
rights, against abortions.
Most recently, government work
ers’ paths have been blocked by dis
gruntled farmers’ tractors and angry
truckers’s diesel-hungry rigs.
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Now it’s the bureaucrats’ turn.
They plan a week of protest activities
to call President Carter’s attention to
their dismay over a number of recent
decisions affecting them.
The protest will center in Wash
ington, but activities are scheduled
across the country in cities with large
concentrations of civil servants.
Carter, of course, is the boss of the
2.1 million bureaucrats, 350,000 of
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whom work in the Washington area.
They cannot strike, but have desig
nated this week of protest over what
they see as politically motivated at
tempts by the president to imple
ment his 1976 anti-bureaucracy
theme at their expense.
The highlight comes Thursday
with picketing of the White House
and a lunchtime rally in Lafayette
Square across the street. It will be
sponsored by 10 federal employee
unions representing more than half
the federal work force.
The spark for the protest wasGar-
ter’s long-awaited proposal, made
public last week, to revise federal
pay procedures by combining the
generous fringe benefits with salary
to arrive at a standard of comparison
with private industry. It would also
set pay on the basis of the cost of
living in each city.
Although about half the workers
would get higher pay, the civil serv
ice unions claim women and
minorities would wind up losing and
the plan involves giving the presidnt
pay-setting authority that now be
longs to Congress.
Other
■ issues
are Carter
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cent cap on fe<
lend pay
increases.
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current
pay standa
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particularly last year’s civil service
revision making it easier to fire em
ployees and — most imporant —
Carter’s decision to make federal
workers pay for their parking places.
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By DOUG GRAHAM;
Battalion Reporter !
The Bryan Independent II
Board hired a new Brvi;|.jQyiF
School principal Monday nipp: show
the former principal requests!
signment to an elementarysj
Perry B. Pope, 41, wdl j
Don Wiggins who is takiijf
Bonham Elementary.
Pope had been principal^ troni
Waltrop Senior High Sell 1:0
Houston, Texas since 1975,fL ta
that, he had served as a inn J
school principal.
State laws and regulation
voured most of the remaim!c®ld\ H
meeting. I * n “
One proposition before tbfcfOWB
was switching from a quartern 3:30
to a semester system. Prai
Bryan had been using these;
system but had changed totleM
ter system. A new state law
all Texas secondary schools® « .
back to a semester system« IllS
two years. .
School is also going to
later in August to savec:K
conditioning. The schedule® ^ 111
ing will, however, still ret®’^
state-required 175 days.
Jack McCreary, an Austio®^* ne *
torney retained by the boarmlf 10 1 ” 1
school income may be cutb ® est s *°
tax law changes. The effects®
"Tax Relief Amendment’k'D ansen
to extend a $5,000 homesleB^^ e st
exemption from school dist: pj^ 6
to homeowners. In addition,(j uri ^ i y 3
citizens have been given al® cin §;
homestead exemption and«® a J" s in *
their tax assessments frozenkp 0 ^ 1X131
He? said tHat if an elderly pB^ ree c
home is undervalued when® 6
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sold. Thus, he said, ahomq^
worth $300,000, may acc:;-ft
be frozen at an early, outrL T „
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