By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Juab County Planning Commission members agreed to tour
the John Kuhni Sons animal rendering plant in Utah County
and to send two or three members to visit a state-of-the-art
animal by-products plant near Boston, MA.
All of this education will take place before any decision
is made by the planning commission on whether to let Kuhni's
relocate from its present Provo location to Juab County.
"Kuhni's offered to finance the visit to the East but the
county commission thought it better that the county pay for
the trip," Glenn Greenhalgh, county zoning administrator,
told planning commission members.
If the county paid for the trip, there could be no
question that Kuhni's was trying to bribe the commission
into making a decision in Kuhni's favor. This way, he said,
the planning commission will be free to look, ask questions,
and make an independent decision whether it is favorable to
the animal rendering company or not.
The Boston plant is the newest in the nation, built just
five years ago, and would be more like the plant John Kuhni
Sons is planning to construct in Juab County.
"It would resemble what we are proposing for our new
facility," said Kevin Kuhni, president of John Kuhni Sons,
the Provo animal rendering business.
Commissioner Robert Steele, who is a non-voting member of
the county planning commission, will be one of those making
the trip to Boston.
Wm. Boyd Howarth, who attended the planning commission
meeting held on Wednesday as an interested observer, told
planning commission members they should knock on some doors
while they are in the East.
"You should visit government officials, neighbors of the
facility, area businesses, the ground water division, the
public health and medical people and interview them about
the animal rendering plant there," said Howarth.
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