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Raise Discount 1 Rates, Urge Idaho Groups jWASHINGTON— Proposed principles and standards oi the , Water Resources Council were , both praised and criticized in a Joint statement sent to the council today by (he Idaho Wildlife Federation and the Idaho Environmental Council.The principles and standards . were said to reflect a'4new sensitive awareness at She national level'* of environmental consequences, At the same time the ' statement urged elimination of the regional development account as being a meaningless concept which would be used as a device to obtain an otherwise unjustifiable project.'1The council was urged to raise the discount rate to lQper cent to protect taxpayers and to take the fat out of the pork barrel/1. The statement concluded that If a realistic discount rate had been in effect, the Corps-of ■ Engineers could not have constructed Dworshak Dam, described as “the worst environmental disaster of the last decade in Idaho/1 •The council was praised for requiring that every plan include an alternative of uon-devclop-ment overlooked in projects such as the Lower GraniteDamnnthe Columbia River.In conclusion, the statement urged that the principles and standards be made* effective as of Jan. 1, 19?2, rather than permit const ruction of projects “which were no longer feasible, such as the Teton Ham/’
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Mon, Mar 27, 1972
Page 11
Full Page
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