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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 30, 1992                   TAG: 9201300307
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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EPA CLEARS $1.2 BILLION HALIFAX POWER PLANT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved construction of a $1.2 billion coal-fired power plant in Halifax County, ending more than a year of federal review.

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said EPA Administrator William K. Reilly telephoned him Wednesday with news that the EPA had given the green light to the 786-megawatt plant proposed in 1988 by Virginia Power and the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative.

Virginia had issued an air quality permit for the project, but a Charlottesville-based group appealed to the EPA last summer.

The Southern Environmental Law Center, which represents a coalition of environmental and citizens groups, argued that the project would pollute the Shenandoah National Park.

- Associated Press

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