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The auditors said it might be cheaper to give up on the plant than complete it. “Under certain sets of assump tions, the cancellation of STNP (South Texas Nuclear Project) could be a lower cost alternative than com pletion,” said the report prepared by the auditing Firm of Lubow, McKay, Stevens and Lewis. An HL&P official said the report is “preliminary and therefore incon clusive.” Edward Turner, HL&P group vice president, disagreed with the re sults of the state-commisioned audit. “We do not believe the audit’s pre liminary conclusions are correct,” he said. “It’s very simple'to say we should have known then what we know to day.” The Public Utility Commission commissioned the $2 million study last year. This was after four co-owners of the nuclear plant under construction near Bay City settled against Brown & Root Inc. for $579 million. Brown & Root, which had been the designer and builder for the plant, was fired from the project in 1981 by HL&P. “We certainly don’t need an audit to tell us there were problems dur ing the time Brown & Root was on thejob,” Turner said. The report says that “unfortu nately” bad management decisions by HL&P allowed major mistakes to “accumulate and compound over a long period of time.” The auditors, based in Overland Park, Kan., said between $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion was wasted as a re sult of poor management by HL&P. In conclusion, the auditors said the four co-owners did not “fully ap preciate the complexities and diffi culties” of building a nuclear power plant when the decision to build was made in 1972. Brown & Root was a bad choice for architect-engineer because the firm had never designed a nuclear plant, according to the audit report. Harsh Reality by Gisrl Doug Divine, PUC’s director of utility evaluation, said, “The general flavor of the report is that during the early years of construction, HL&P and Brown & Root didn’t really know what they were doing, and the cost to somebody was be tween $1.1 billion and $1.3 billion.” HL&P and Central Power & Light, two of the partners, sought PUC approval of the settlement. “And it’s not going to fall on the Texas ratepayers. The cities of Austin and San An tonio, the other two partners, are not under PUC authority. “It’s up to utility stockholders to assure they have the type of manage ment that can make proper deci sions,” Divine said. xr laJas zrusr At/ MD/t/ARX PARTY PEOPLE MERE TALKlkJ&\ AfJQ EATltJCr POTATO CH/PS /AND THEN PROM THEIR EYES ACROSS MEET the RooA to i see [car sh( ig ai P e PH sole Sla Urban program finds A0 families a home HOUSTON (AP) — The Ameri can dream of owning a house came true for 10 lucky families after their names were selected from a list of 800 applicants trying to obtain re possessed homes. The drawing Monday was re quired because of the large number of people applying for the homes of fered under the Urban Homestead ing Program, city officials said. “I’m elated,” said Claras Brown after his name was picked. “I can’t believe it.” There is one small catch to own ing the homes, but Brown considers it a minor detail. “The city will loan me the money to pay for improvements on the home, and I will pay that loan back,” he said. “After I live in the house Five years, it becomes mine.” Families qualifying for the pro gram must earn $18,000 to $27,500 a year, at least 30 percent of the which must go for rent and utilities. An applicant must not own any other residential property and must be a resident of Houston. The city purchased the homes with $200,000 in federal Commu nity Development funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Each home purchased needs re furbishing costing an estimated $6,000 to $16,050 and the newom ers must carry out the improvemen! within 12 months. The city will provide home iit provement loans at 3 percent imei est. Brown’s house needs aboii: $9,230 in improvements. pi; Clements denies any secret plan for cuts to balance state budget AUSTIN (AP) — There is no se cret plan to fix the state’s budget, and Bill Clements now says he never said there was. During the spring, while urging Gov. Mark White to call a special ses sion of the Legislature, Clements said he had some ideas on where to cut to balance the budget. But he said he was not ready to re veal details of his plan. “I’m not going to get into a de tailed road map and blueprint of where and how you are going to cut that budget,” he said. “I think the voters understand my modus operandi very, very well. 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The board can impose fines of up to $10,000 a day for violations of pollution laws or air control permits. So far, 45 penalties add ing up to more than $700,000 have been assessed. League of Women Voters spokeswoman Evelyn Bonavitaof [| Austin said, “It fills the gap be tween the issuance of a compli ance order by an agency — which heretofore has amounted onlyto a slap on the wrist of an industry not in compliance — and having to refer the case to the attorney general’s office for a possibly pro tracted and costly court battle.” HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY Wanted: Patients with High Pressure, either on or off blood pressure medication to participate in a High Blood Pressure study. $100-$200 monitary incentive offered for those chosen. Call 776-0411 For 25 years, our people have endured long hours and tough working conditions for virtually no pay. And 9 out of 10 would do it again. 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