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AUSTIN (AP) — The AFL-CIO
Thursday said the South Texas Nu
clear Project should be completed
because Texans need the energy and
the unions need the jobs.
The Public Utility Commission
staff is considering whether the
STNP’s second unit should be com
pleted. The first unit is now 92 per
cent complete and set for commer
cial operation in December 1987.
The second unit is 63 percent
complete and scheduled for com
mercial operation in June 1989.
Several anti-nuclear groups have
called for cancellation of the entire
project under construction near Bay
City. The Texas Chemical Council
recently said cancellation of both
units might be warranted.
“That would mean the loss of
10,000 construction jobs in Texas at
a time when we are facing the worst
economic outlook since the Great
Depression,” said Jackie St. Clair,
secretary of the Texas Building
Trades Council.
The Texas AFL-CIO will urge the
PUC to allow completion of the pro
ject.
Harry Hubbard, Texas AFL-CIO
president, said, “Even though the
price of oil is down this week, it
might be up to $35 a barrel next
month. We cannot base our energy
future on the interests of foreign na
tions.”
STNP’s total projected cost is now
$5.5 billion, more than 500 percent
above original projections. It also is
far behind the original construction
schedule.
The project is owned by Houston
Lighting & Power Co., Central
Power & Lighting Co., and the cities
of Austin and San Antonio. HL&P is
the managing partner.
The Texas Chemical Council,
which had been silent on the STNP
until recently, represents major
chemical companies in Texas. The
council is considering entering the
PUC proceeding to oppose comple
tion of the nuclear project.
But Rep. Lloyd Criss, D-LaMar-
que, said the Chemical Council’s mo
tive is greed. The companies sell en
ergy they produce in a system
known as cogeneration.
In cogeneration, utility companies
buy energy that is produced as an in
dustrial by-product. The nuclear
project would be a competitor that
could reduce the price that indus
tries get for cogenerated power, he
said.
“The cogenerators want more,”
Criss said. “They want it all. They
want to control power in the state of
Texas.”
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AUSTIN (AP) — The State
Board of Insurance is consid
ering an increase in personal
property insurance that could
cost Texans at least $69 million.
“We’ll have a decision later,”
Chairman Lyndon Olson said
Thursday after an hour-long
hearing.
The board’s staff recom
mended a statewide average in
crease of 5.3 percent, which ex
perts said would mean $69
million more in premiums.
The Texas Insurance Advisory
Association, representing the in
dustry, recommended a statewide
increase of 16.9 percent.
Both recommendations said
the increases were “catastrophe
oriented,” caused mainly by large
insurance losses in recent years
from hurricanes on he coast and
tornadoes and windstorms in
North and West Texas.
Irene Bass, speaking for the
Insurance Advisory Association,
said the industry recommenda
tion took into consideration catas
trophe losses in estimating rates
for each of the state’s territories
— central, Gulf Coast and north-
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AUSTIN (AP) — The state prison
board on Thursday approved the
construction of 10 “trusty camps”
that will have no fences and will be
the least secure facilities ever in the
Texas Department of Gorrections.
The camps, housing a total of
about 2,000 inmates, will be located
at existing state prison sites, but will
be outside the walls. The trusties will
include inmates who are allowed to
work outside the prison during the
day.
Prison board chairman Alfred
Hughes of Austin said, “These are
our best prisoners. We trust them
enough to, in many cases, get in a
truck and drive all over the state of
Texas picking up meat and moving
it around all day long and drive back
and forth in the truck. I don’t see
why we’d be worried about them
leaving at night.”
But Hughes and TDG director
O.L. McCotter said they would pre
fer fencing the camps if the money
was available.
McCotter said, “If we had unlim
ited funding, I would tell you I
would like to have it. However, I feel
very strongly that we can operate the
camps in line with what the scope
calls for. I think we can do it prop
erly and in a safe manner and de
fend the public safety within the
state of Texas.”
Fences and additional lights for
security would cost $194,000 per
camp. It would cost another
$140,000 a year to man the fences at
each unit, according to TDC projec
tions.
Hughes, saying fences could be
added later if necessary, said, “It
would be nice to have them. But
they’re not absolutely necessary at
this time.”
TDC is under a federal court or
der to reduce the inmate population
by 2,000 by September. The trusty
camps will cost a total of $17.9 mil
lion. A lease-purchase plan will be
used to build them.
A similar trusty camp, housing 81
inmates, has been in partial use for
several months at the Ellis Unit near
Huntsville. TDC officials say there
have been no problems there.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston is
facing a $93 million revenue short
fall — almost 30 percent more than
expected — that will probably result
in more layoffs and public service
cuts, Mayor Kathy Whitmire says.
“At this point we’re reviewing
what our alternatives are,” she said
during a Wednesday city council
meeting.
She said no department will be sa
cred — including police and fire
agencies that have so far escaped
cuts — as city officials plan to meet
ing the city’s additional Financial
woes.
Officials had been predicting the
city would have a $72 million short
fall but that has Figure has increased
by $21 million with updated city fi
nance reports, Whitmire said.
Most of the increase is due to the
large number of protests filed over
property taxes, she said.
In her proposed $1.27 billion city
budget, Whitmire had counted on
$733 million in property taxes rec
eipts, but successful protests are ex
pected to wipe out $16 million of
that total, the mayor said.
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