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- NATION, Page 31American NotesPARKSHaze over The Canyon
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- Visitors to the Grand Canyon have long complained that smog
- is ruining the view. A National Park Service study tracked
- winter weather patterns and the sources of the haze. The main
- culprit: Arizona's Navajo Generating Station, an electrical
- plant 80 miles away. The plant, burning 24,000 tons of coal
- daily and releasing an estimated 12 to 13 tons of sulfur dioxide
- from its smokestacks every hour, was found responsible for about
- half the Grand Canyon's pollution.
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- Last week the Environmental Protection Agency recommended
- that up to $1 billion in pollution controls be installed at the
- station. But the Federal Bureau of Reclamation owns a 24%
- interest in Navajo and would have to contribute to the cleanup.
- Faced with an interagency imbroglio, Interior Secretary Manuel
- Lujan responded in classic fashion by ordering up yet another
- study, thus casting further haze over the future of Grand
- Canyon.
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