♦2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6,1978
Energy conservation required
for rural electric financing
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Alex P. Mercure, assistant
secretary of agriculture for
rural development, has
directed the" Rural Elec
trification Administration
(REA) to draft regulations
that would require rural
electric cooperatives to
include energy conservation
plans in all applications for
future REA loans.
Hie assistant secretary
said the policy was needed /
“because oUr* studies show
the sharply higher cost of
new electric generation,
transmission and
distrubution facilities
coming into service now and
in the near future could
result in doubled or even
tripled rural electric rates in
the 1980’s.
Mercure said he had also
asked the National Rural
Electrification Cooperative
Association (NRECA) to
help develop an aggressive
and effective energy con
servation program and to
help local electric
Cooperatives develop their
own programs. “NRECA
and its members have many
times rallied around
programs which were in the
best interest of the country,”
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he said. “This is another of
those times.”
Mercure said the proposed
regulations would require
rural electric cooperatives
“to dedicate a reasonable
amount of money and per
sonnel to energy con-,
servation programs.”
Also required, he said,
would be a description of
current conservation efforts
by the cooperatives and
hoard of directors’
resolutions mandating
conservation.
After the draft policy is
released by REA in an
estimated 90 days, a formal
comment period will be an
nounced. However, Im
mediate comment and
recommendations are en
couraged, Mercure said.
have a
nice weekend...
do something, anything
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Judging winner named
CHAMBERSBURG - John
W. Moore, of the Franklin
County A team, was the first
place individual in the recent
Penn State Dairy Science
dub dairy cattle judging
contest Winning score was
448 of a possible 500, with a
sixth placing in oral reasons.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Vaughn Moore, Cham
bersburg H 2, he farms with
his parents. He is a member
of the Northern 4-H Dairy
dub, the Chambersburg
Chapter of Young Farmers,
and the Pa. Jr. Guernsey
Breeders Association.
John owns 12 Reg.
Guernseys and shows them,
including entering the Pa.
Farm Show and the All-
American Dairy Show. Ho
works at the Ni-Crere y Randy Christman, and Tim
Farms, Chambersburg, and Donough, all from Cham
is a part-time DHIA tester. bersburgßS.
The Franklin County A The team was ac
team placed seventh out of companied by their coach
26 teams overalL Other Richard Crider, Cham
members included Kirk and bersburg R 5.
In 1827, the first railroad in the U.S. was built in Quincy,
Mass.
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