Hit List' Narrowed to Four Sidies Crumbled Before 1981 Political Doomed Agency

' I 24 - THE HERALD. Thurs., Jan. 7, 1982 Cloudy tonight Manchester, Conn. and Saturday FrI., Jan. 8, 1982 Energy 1982 25 Cents —' See page 2 Budget deficits may force Reagan to alter stand on synthetic, nuclear fuels Reagan personally approved a |1.8 that had already received By Edward Roby Edwards, who came to town also unveiled a nuclear policy that fate in the 1982 congressional elec regulatory price and purchase lifted his predecessor’s ban on com tion year. billion loan guarantee for a private UPl Reporter chortling that he expected to “work CoaI-t(j-gas plant in North Dakota guarantees. myself out of a job,” finished the mercial reprocessing of spent reac But early in his administration. WASHINGTON - P resident year in a last-ditch battle with ad tor fuel. Reagan's campaign ideai of a free, ministration budget makers to competitive market without sub THE PLAN dangled a carrot of a preserve what was left of his possible government plutonium School 'hit list' narrowed to four sidies crumbled before 1981 political doomed agency. supply contract fob any firm willing realities as the new administration Watt, to the chagrin of California struggled to reshape U.S. energy Gov. Eidmund Brown, announced a to enter the risky reprocessing policy. business. five-year crash program to open But a presidential call for The president, after a bold begin practically all federal offshore ning with immediate oil decontrol, speedier reactor licensing seemed Proposal waters for oil and gas leasing. The to go flat in the aftermath of the hesitated at the brink of natural gas move caught even the deregulation and surprisingly en Diablo Canyon fiasco. resourcehungry oil industry The nuclear industry’s economic dorsed a multibillion-dollar series of offguard. angers subsidies to nuclear power and syn base continued to erode in 1981 with thetic fuel. THE INTERIOR secretary also the cancellation of reactors in In But mounting federal deficit irked environmentalists by trying to diana and Massachusetts and the projections may well force Reagan extend federal onshore petroleum mothballing of two others in the parents to swallow his objections to a wind leasing to the nation’s 80-million Pacific Northwest. fall gas profits tax and enter the acre system of protected U.S. utilities have not ordered a political thicket of gas decontrol in wilderness. new nuclear plant since 1978, the 1982 congressional election year. Watt bought more trouble with although reactor vendors have kept By Nancy Thompson conservation groups by trimming busy repairing and and refitting the Herald Reporter THE ISSUE shapes up as a nowin back his agency’s strip mining old ones to meet NRC safety edicts proposition for a president, who bad regulatory apparatus and issued after the 1979 Three Mile School officials want to close one ly needs new tax revenues but has transferring some federal powers to Island accident. school this year, another within the next two years, because of declining discovered that large segments of coal states. the energy industry as well as con The coal industry, enjoying, the ELECTRIC UTILITY s'tocks, enrollment and budgetary sumer interests want no part of total beginnings of a boom, easily meanwhile, took a new lease on life, pressures. And the list of candidates gas deregulation. weathered a lengthy strike that thanks to new tax breaks and the has been officially narrowed to four, The unfettered .market place, failed to deplete utility stockpiles. most generous rate increases it was revealed Thursday night; ironically, proved a far better friend Foreign demand for steam coal, granted in years by state rate com Bentley, Highland Park, Martin and of the American energy consumer although weaker than in 1980, missions. Herald photo by Tarquinio Washington. 8 than regulation during the year. provided a new market. Electric bills in the year ended And Superintendent of Schools Domestic crude oil and gasoline The administration retreated last August rose 50 percent faster Kids and the Coast Guard James P. Kennedy said two of the prices, decontrolled by Reagan from its insistance on user fees to than the Consumer Price Index, ac four appear to make the most sense eight months ahead of his expand ports for rising coal export cording to a survey by state Students at Buckley School exhibit varying degrees of Interest in watching the Coast Guard Band perform this morning. for closing. But he declined to say predecessor’s schedule, confounded traffic, but invoked states in op regulators. Yet the investoi'K)wned which ones. critics by stabilizing and then falling posing eminent domain for the coal utility trade group launched a The school administration far behind the general inflation rate slurry pipelines favored by the in publicity campaign to win even reviewed each of the schools for the first time since 1978. dustry. greater benefits. Thursday night before an But the prices of regulated gas High on the industry wish list pen emotionally-chaTged crowd of and electricity far outstripped mere THE AILING nuclear industry, ding before the F ^eral Energy There may be an alternative to WINF almost 150 parents at a Board of inflationary increases during the expecting a shot in the arm from a Regulatory Commission is authority Education planning committee year. sympathetic new administration, in to bill customers for uncompleted meeting. stead got a kick in the pants from A worldwide oil glut frayed the construction work. The “pay now, Blanchard confirmed that he has heard at 1170 AM, will be daytime depends on when the winter weather Angry parents charged that the the Nuclear Regulatory Commis fly later” provision is denounced by By Paul Hendrie school administration had already fabric of OPEC and depressed Herald Reporter been contacted for possible jobs by only,' thanks to Federal Com breaks, so the tower can be petroleum prices, giving U.S. con sion. consumer groups as a ploy to get WINF denies plan assembled. targeted one school for closing, ac The five-member commission, some WINF staff members, who munications Commission rules. sumers immediate benefits from oil nuclear plant construction moving If the new programming format at to fire reporters have been told they will be let go Night-time broadcasting could in “ Now,, we’ve got our fingers cusing school officials of applying decontrol. Conservation knocked brought to full strength with two again, despite high interest rates terfere with a station in Virginia, crossed for April or so,” he said. criteria adopted by the committee Reagan appointees, issued a license WINF-AM reduces the emphasis on because of the format change. down crude imports to one-third of and sluggish electricity demand. local news coverage, I^nchester — See page 8 WINF is changing its live easy which has a signal that sometimes But, at the latest, WRTT should be to select a school subjectively. to California’s long-delayed Diablo broadcasting by the summer. “I think it’s going to come to be a consumption, while the absence of THE ADMINISTRATION, egged ou know this man. He's Phil Harrison, So give Heritage a call and ask for Phil may have somewhere else to turn. listening format, with lots of sports, reaches Connecticut. federal price restraints triggered an Canyon 1 reactor and then But Blanchard said he is hopeful Blanchard, now in charge of very subjective, political decision,” suspended it amid embarrassing on by international oil firms, and he's been a valued member of Harrison. He'll show you the better way to a A new radio station, t»sed in Ver news and talk, to an automated, syn exploration boom and the enhanced non, is scheduled to go on the air this “ How much we get into dicated format of middle-of-the- the FCC rules will soon change, so audio-visual repairs at Springfield said Bruce Forde, a Martin School revelations of potentially sparred intermittently with Canada the Manchester business community tax shelter. Technical Community College, said parent, whose remark was greeted domestic production Reagan had over that country’s nationalistic spring, according to co-owner Bruce Manchester will be dependent on the road music. the station can broadcast around the widespread design errors. Y lor many many years. Bringing the new tax-sheltered IRA to he is no stranger to the broadcast with applause from the audience. “ 1 forecast. Blanchard. market,” said Blanchard. “We’re Blanchard said the new station’s clock. Chairman Nunzio Palladino new energy policy. The industry business. think what we’re looking for is some blames the Canadian energy plan Well, Phil is retired now, but that your doorstep...another example of how ' Although the station will be committed to the tri-town area. format will stress local news and The station’s signal will be strong MOBIL CORP. did much of its publicly criticized the industry as enough to be heard right into Hart He said he has managed non fairness, some openness, some exploration on the floor of the New well as the NRC for inexcusable for discriminating against U.S. com doesn ’( mean he's called it quits. You see, banking the better way just keeps getting geared toward the tri-town area of Manchester has a station and we’re public affairs programming. Music, better! Vemon-Ellington-Rockvllle, not prepared to try to take listeners probably “more of a middle-of-the- ford at commuting time, he said. commercial radio stations and objectivity.” J York Stock Exchange where the sloppiness, and promised a safety panies operating north of the border Phil is our special IRA representative, and Blanchard said WRTT-AM - as it away from ’INF. But if Manchester road approach,’! will be secondary, Blanchard said WRTT still has to worked for WHYN-TV in best 1981 bargains in oil reserves crackdown.

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