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EPA delays ruling on power plant and mine until October

RANGELY I Citizens and groups keeping a close eye on an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision that could affect local coal mine and power plant operations could have six more weeks to wait.

The EPA’s original deadline to decide whether a Title V air quality permit for Deseret Power Electric Cooperative’s Bonanza Power Plant would be issued — with or without requirements to upgrade its current pollution controls — was Aug. 29. The new deadline…