Environmental system study on the development of fossil fuel resources in the southwest. Summary report

Various outcomes of a project designed to study energy and synfuels technologies appropriate to the Southwest are described. The high priority placed by the State of New Mexico and Navajo Nation on the hazards of uranium tailings piles led to a study and report on 'Continued Care of Uranium Mill sites: Some Economic Considerations'. Similarly, the need for information on Navajo resource problems (Region Under Stress Projct) resulted in sub-grants for the writing of a book and an article on this subject. Investigations conducted on matters more closely related to the original intent of the project dealt with air pollution control for electric power plants in the Southwest, use of coal for electricity generation in California, and energy/transportation concepts, economics and technologies