Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chiefly by local governments and must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
...freeze will affect four plants that would have been ready for licensing next month: Sequoyah 1 reactor in Daisy, Tenn.; Salem 2 in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J.; North Anna 2 near Mineral, Va.; and Diablo Canyon 1 near San Luis Obispo, Calif. If the licensing ban continues throughout 1980, at least seven more plants will be delayed...
John Thompsen San Luis Obispo, Calif...
Julie Vanderwier San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...Diablo Canyon plant is being built about 12 miles from San Luis Obispo by Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the nation's second largest investor-owned electric utility (1975 revenues: $2.2 billion). It consists of two giant reactors that will produce 2.2 million kilowatts of electricity. One reactor is nearly ready to go into operation; the other will be finished in August 1977. When construction started in 1968, PG&E knew all about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering...