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Decision Brings Mixed ReactionBy The Associated PressEnvironmentalists express disappointment in an appeal court go-ahead for Teton Dam in Southeastern Idaho, but water users are jubilant.Environmental groups filed suit in September 1971 to stop construction of the dam on grounds the environmental impact statement on the dam on the Teton River in Fremont County did not meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. •U.S. District Court Judge Fred M. Taylor ruled Jan. 24 of this year that the statement was adequate and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld Taylor Thursday.Gerald A: Jayne, Idaho Falls,a director of the Idaho Environ-*mental Council, said the 17-page environmental statement could not adequately discuss all theenvironmental impacts of the earth and rock fill dam. He said that if a brief statement is (he only requirement to the courts, “We’re in for problems.”Jayne said the council does no! have the money to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.R. Willis Walker. Rexburg, chairman of the board of the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District, said the district had spent more than $100,00Q jn attorney fees fighting in the courts.“We feel mighty good the way it turned out. I think we won a victory for the entire State of Idaho and the Western Water Users Association,” he said. “If we lost,, then there wouldn't have been another reservoir built in the West.”The suit was tiled by the council, the Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups. The darn is to supplymore irrigation water to 110,000 acres of farmland near St. Anthony, Ashton and Rexburg.'Fly's Eye' PSALT LAKE CITY (AP-University of Utah scientists plan to construct what they’re calling a “Fly’s Eye” to discover the origin in the university of cosmic rays.The large dome-shaped observatory will resemble the compound eyes of a fly and will be built somewhere on the western Utah desert. It will have 79 dish-shaped mirrors covering a geodesic dome to pick up the faint light of cosmic ray particle showers.Scientists say they still are looking for a site isolated from the artificial lights and polluted atmosphere of civilization. According to Dr. Donald Groom, a physicist working on thenrnipnt it will have to hp hiiUt a*
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Sun, Dec 29, 1974
Page 36
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