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Snapping Shoals Joins In
Building Nuclear Power Plant
Snapping Shoals Electric
Membership Corporation
(EMC) has participated in an
historic agreement to help
assure electrical energy for
the future.
The agreement, which
provides for the cooperative
building of the Alvin W.
Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant
near Waynesboro, was final
ized in Atlanta on January 27,
1977.
Snapping Shoals EMC was
represented at the cere
monies by Oglethorpe Elec
tric Membership Corpora
tion, the power supply
organization for 39 of
Georgia’s EMCs. Snapping
Shoals EMC is one of the
founding members of Ogle
thorpe Electric.
The agreement marks the
first time in Georgia that
four power supply entities
will share ownership in a
power generating facility.
Plant Vogtle, which origin
ally began as a project of the
Georgia Power Company,
will now be owned under the
following arrangement:
Georgia Power Company
will have a 50.7 percent
ownership interest; Ogle
thorpe Electric will have a 30
percent ownership interest;
Municipal Electric Authority
of Georgia (MEAG) will
have a 17.7 percent owner
ship interest; and the City of
Dalton will have a 1.6 percent
ownership interest.
The unique arrangement
between an investor-owned
utility (Georgia Power Com
pany), a nonprofit, member
owned utility (Oglethorpe
Electric), and municipal
directed utilities (MEAG and
City of Dalton), is considered
a major accomplishment in
solving the financing of a
generating facility.
Construction on Plant
Vogtle, which had begun as a
four-unit facility, was halted
by Georgia Power Company
late in 1974 due to financial
difficulties. The revised
plans call for a two-unit
facility capable of generating
1.150 megawatts per unit.
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Construction is expected to
be completed in the mid
1980s at a projected cost of
$1.75 billion. Oglethorpe’s
estimated share for the
completion of the project is
$823 million.
Though the agreement for
the buildmg of Plant Vogtle is
the first time in Georgia that
four power supply entities
have cooperatively partici
pated in a single project,
there is precedent in the state
for joint ownership in power
generating plants.
Oglethorpe Electric pio
neered the concept in
Georgia of ownership partici
pation by purchasing a 30
percent ownership in the
Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear
Power Plant near Baxley in
1975, and a 30 percent
ownership in the Hal Wans
ley Fossil Power Plant near
Carrollton in 1976.
According to Oglethorpe
Electric’s General Manager,
F. F. Stacy, the agreements
with Georgia Power Com
pany involving Plants Hatch
and Wansley, “....served as
something of a proving-point.
It was, on the surface, an
unusual agreement -a
negotiation between an
investor-owned utility and
the nonprofit, member
owned utility. In the past, our
39 founding EMCs had
negotiated directly with
Georgia Power Company for
the majority of their electri
cal needs. Though they were
buying power on a wholesale
rate, some critical concerns
developed in the early
seventies. Georgia Power
Company, faced with in
creased costs, began to raise
wholesale rates and the
EMCs experienced a 200
percent increase in less than
five years. Further, because
of the need for more
generating and transmission
hardware, Georgia Power
Company could not com
pletely assure the availabil
ity of electricity in the
future”.
Oglethorpe Electric was
established as a power
supply organization due to
those problems, Stacy added.
“We knew, however, that
we would have to become
involved in generating and
transmission of power,”
Stacy said. “And that is when
we negotiated for 30 percent
ownership of Plant Hatch,
followed by Plant Wansley,
and now Plant Vogtle.
Ultimately, we hope to be
independent of the need to
purchase wholesale energy.
Our goal, on behalf of
Snapping Shoals EMC and
the other 38 founding EMCs,
is to be independent by the
early 19905”.
Mr. J. E. Robinson,
manager of Snapping Shoals
EMC, added that funding for
the purchase of generating
and transmission capability
was made available to
Oglethorpe Electric from
long-term loans that have
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been guaranteed by the
Rural Electrification Admin
istration (REA), which is an
agency of the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
“The administrator of the
REA. David A. Hamil, has
long been an advocate of the
cooperation between
investor-owned and member
owned utilities”, Mr. Robin
son said. “In essence, what it
means is that resources are
pooled, responsibility
shared, and present and
future needs for electricity
are met in a more effective
and cost-efficient manner.
We believe that future
demands could not have been
met if we had continued to
rely primarily on wholesale
electric energy from Georgia
Power Company. In short,
we think we’ve been involved
in the pioneering of a good
cause.”
Atlanta Judge
To Address
Griffin Group
The Griffin chapter of the
Full Gospel Business Men’s
Fellowship International will
hold its next meeting on
Saturday, February 19th, at
the Holiday Inn of Griffin.
Judge Kermit C. Bradford,
of Atlanta, will be the guest
speaker. A civil court judge
of Fulton County, he served
as a counter spy in World
War 11, working with
Scotland Yard and the
French underground.
Judge Bradford’s conver
sion came about as the result
of his successful handling of
a sensational murder case in >
1952.
Meeting of the Full Gospel
Business Men’s Fellowship
are open to anyone desiring
fellowship in Jesus Christ
Regardless of sex, race, or
denominational background.
A buffet dinner will be
served at 6:30 for the
February meeting for $4.00,
with the meeting starting
promptly at 7:30 p.m.
Reservations may be made
by writing P.O. Box 387,
Griffin 30224, or by a phone
call to 228-6700 in Griffin.
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PET of the WEEK
By Dale Whiten
The mother is a Great
Dane and the father is a
German Shepherd, so maybe
13 puppies is not unusual but
to see all 13 of these little
black puppies together is a
little surprising.
It was five degrees the day
the puppies were born to
Lady and Big Boy and many
people suspected they
wouldn’t live. But due to the
effort of Mrs. Don Rogers,
who fed the puppies with
bottles and medicine drop
pers because the mother
couldn’t nurse all of them, all
13 of the puppies survived.
Mrs. Rogers said it was
interesting to watch the
mother dog care for her
puppies. She said that after
she had fed them with the
bottle, Lady would wash the
puppies if they had milk on
their faces and she would cry
for help if any of the puppies
had fallen from their bed and
she couldn’t get them back
in.
Mrs. Rogers explained that
before the puppies were born
a six foot by eight foot
manger-like bed (with pine
straw) was prepared for
Lady, and though 13 puppies
were not anticipated, the bed
worked out well.
The bed for Lady and her
puppies was built under the
Rogers’ house, but because
of the extreme cold, extra
precautions had to be taken
to make sure the puppies
stayed warm. To provide
extra heat, a spot light was
burned throughout the night
to keep the puppies from
freezing.
The puppies are obviously
fond of Lady and Big Boy,
and when they are let out to
run around in the yard, they
follow their mother and
father who hurriedly get
away from them.
However, affection for the
puppies is returned in other
ways such as the first time
Big Boy saw the puppies and
apparently knowing they
were his went over and
nudged them.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, who
live on Jackson Lake, believe
if the puppies inherit thetr
father's strength they wil' be
extremely durable. That’s
because Big Boy has been
seen by several people on
different occasions swim
ming for miles in Jackson
Lake.
The Rogers family has
decided to keep one of the
puppies and have named it
Allmark because of his
outstanding marking.
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Julie Dennard is shown giving Lady a friendly and
sympathetic hug at feeding time. Photo by Carole
Lawrence.
Senator Nunn Works To Stop
Excess of Federal Paperwork
WASHINGTON Four
United States Senators an
nounced that they will take
the battle to reduce govern
ment paperwork to the
Senate Floor.
Senators Thomas J. Mcln
tyre (D-N.H.), chairman of
the Select Committee on
Small Business Subcommit
tee on Government Regula
tion, Walter D. Huddleston
(D-Ky.).Sam Nunn (D-Ga.),
and William V. Rother
iR-Del.) intend to amend
major pieces of legislation
coming to the Senate for a
vote, to cut the paperwork
burden on those Americans
"least able to cope with it.”
The Senators said in a
letter to all members of the
Senate that “We believe the
Senate should do everything
in its power to cut unneces
sary paperwork and red tape
resulting from some of the
legislation we enact.”
In the letter, the Senators
said they would ask specific
questions about legislation
that could increase paper
work burdens. They are:
”1) Who will have to file
and complete reports after
the federal bureaucrats take
our legislation and publish
their regulations? For in
stance. we may want to know
how a piece of legislation will
at feet our small businesses
or our elderly citizens.
“2) How’ long will it take
the person affected by the
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1977
regulations to fill out the
required paperwork? Some
bureaucrats call this ‘num
ber of man-hours of report
ing.’
"3) What steps do the
sponsors or floor managers
of the bills we question
expect a federal agency to
take to limit the number of
forms and the amount of time
it takes to fill them out ? W’e
will also question the costs to
the person who fills out the
forms. We all know that
many of those people who
would have to fill out the
forms are already hard at
work complying with the
existing paperwork burden.
"4i What steps can be
taken to ensure that there is
no unnecessary duplication
in paperwork when the
regulatory authority we
give an agency already
exists somewhere else and
may have led to a reporting
requirement?”
The amendment the Sen
ators said they will propose
to major pieces of legislation
would require that govern
ment agencies take into
consideration the reporting
burdens associated with new
laws, and report to Congress
every year on how they have
cut paperwork.
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