Ruling due next week on Hidalgo smelter pollution case
Federal judge to decide early next week on a suit by NMCCAW and Hidalgo County rancher Robert Bennett seeking to block pollution control equipment at the Phelps Dodge Hidalgo smelter. Plaintiffs argue controls are inadequate and pollutants may exceed air quality rules while defendants say the equipment will capture over 90 percent of sulfur dioxide and is essential to the operation.
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Phelps Dodge
Howard Bratton
Nmccaw
Hidalgo County
Robert Bennett
John Davis, Jr
Lordsburg Board Seeks Written Tuition Pact With Duncan
Lordsburg Board of Education instructed Supt Ruben Baca to travel to Duncan Arizona to secure in writing the agreed tuition rate for Lordsburg students attending Duncan. The action follows Duncan officials failing to provide a written agreement for about 88 Virden students for the 1973 74 school year.
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Lordsburg
Ruben Baca
Lordsburg Board of Education
Duncan
Arizona
Baca
Board of Education
Virden
Lordsburg School Board
Santa Fe
Lordsburg High School
Alexander Cortez
Raton
New Mexico
Ted Hern
Gerald Collins
Westbury
New York
Susan Drinkwine
Jack Drinkwine
Mary Valerio
Earlene Sturdevant
New Mexico to Lease 432000 Acres for Geothermal Power
State land officials announce a August 14 lease auction covering 432344 acres in the southwest, with Hidalgo and Dona Ana counties heavily affected. The lands lie along the Rio Grande fault in the Animas Valley Basin and will supply steam for geothermal electric generation, following the first U.S. plant using geothermal steam.
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New Mexico
Alex Armijo
Hidalgo County
Lordsburg
Animas
Animas Valley
Colorado
el Paso
Texas
Dona Ana
Las Cruces
Bernalillo
Sandoval
Grant
Sierra
Socorro
Rio Arriba
Luna
Hidalgo
State Land Commissioner’s Office
Santa Fe
Bureau of Land Management
Jack J. Kennedy
State Land Commissioner’s Mineral Mining Office
U.S
Lordsburg Mayor to Meet Santa Fe Over Water Tank Crisis
Mayor Ted White and a delegation will travel to Santa Fe next Tuesday to discuss emergency funding for a new water storage tank after the old tank collapsed July 31. City council approved seeking an expert to determine cause and considered temporary and replacement tank offers from Matotan Associates and Claude Idsell.
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Lordsburg
Ted White
Santa Fe
State Department of Finare
Rick Sherman
Sherman
Matotan Associates
Matotan
Claude Idsell
Albuquerque
Idsell
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Davis
Jerry Walz
Lordsburg High
Harry Heath
Ruben P. Baca
James L. Latham
Eera
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