By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
A two-fold visit, contemplated for several weeks by Juab
County Commissioners and Juab County Planning Commission
members, is underway.
Two county Commissioners will be flying two
places&emdash;one to Boston, MA. and the other to Washington
D.C.&emdash;on official county business. They will be gone
Monday through Thursday.
BOE (Board of Equalization) meetings are set to begin
on Thursday in county commission chambers.
"We will be back on Thursday so we can make the
meeting," said Howarth.
Also set for Thursday evening is a public hearing to
take comment on whether Kuhni's animal rendering facility
should be allowed a conditional use permit to move their
Utah County operation to Juab County to a site nine miles
south of Levan, near Mills.
That meeting will be held at 8 p.m. on Sept. 12.
Wm. Boyd Howarth and Robert Steele, county
commissioners; Russell Mangelson and Jim McWilliams,
planning commission members; and Glenn Greenhalgh, planning
commission director, are all near Boston, MA, this week
visiting a state-of-the art animal rendering plant.
"The plan was to visit the site and to also meet with
city officials and others to find out what they think about
the plant and find out if it is odor free," said
Howarth.
Kuhni's is now asking the commission to consider a
change in site. Rather than locate the animal rendering
facility along the highway, old US 91, between Nephi and
Levan just south of Nephi, company owners are asking that
the site near Mills be considered.
"They will have access to highway and rail, two
considerations they need," said Howarth.
County commissioners also had a second reason for the
trip away from home.
"We are going to stop in Washington D.C. and meet with
representatives of the committee who has the Mt. Nebo
Wilderness amendment before them," said Howarth.
The Mt. Nebo amendment was proposed in 2001 by
Representative Jim Hansen to take some property from the
Wilderness Designation property which was wrongfully placed
in that designated property.
The designation has made it difficult for Mona and
Nephi cities to manage water resources located inside the
Wilderness Designation.
The Washington D.C. meeting will be held with Sen.
Bingham, one who objects to the change, and with Larua
Finkler. Both will represent the committee.
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