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Fort Worth Star-Telegram from Fort Worth, Texas • 32

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Section 1 Page 32 I Fort Worth Sfax -Telegram Thursday AM January 28 1988 Potential neighbors invited to collider session 'IC- (EA-r- OPEN HOUSE' January 30 Saturday to recruit the project Howerton said To bid for the project states had to assume responsibility for acquiring the needed 16000 acres of land and turning it the Energy Department llowerton said that Texas Super Collider officials this week are mailing more than 750 letters notifying property owners whose land may be in the path of construction or near to it Then Howerton said the commission will hold next month a series of public meetings as yet unscheduled to discuss land purchases But if the Energy Department chooses the Waxahachie site in July the picture could change Howerton said Though the commission has specified the site it believes is best for the super collider the Energy Department reserves the right to modify it The department may for instance move the tunnel to the east or west by as much as two miles affecting a whole new set of property owners he said The commission opted to send notices anyway Howerton said because property owners "have a right to know what may happen and should be in formed" The Super Collider is billed as the largest scientific instrument in the world is built as scheduled by 1996 it will use 10000 magnets called superconducting because they conduct electricity without resistance to propel atomic particles into collisions at nearly the speed of light Physicists say the accelerator will offer insights into the most fundamental building blocks of matter and allow them to study conditions similar to those at the the moment of the so-called Big Bang at the creation ofthe universe )'Crasses in 10 am to 4 pm acryacst faicyaini17g jar treginners to acrvanced: A Crasses cruring th-e as well' as in 1" 14' ice evenings on baturaaas fps 10001 71wy so Ft Worth 244-6310 Aqiigt4) 'c 444K 407 14 VA A BY JACKIE KOSZCZUK Fort Worth Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Department of Energy has scheduled meetings next month for Ellis County residents who could be affected by construction of its proposed $44 billion atom The public hearings are scheduled (or I to 5:30 pm and 7 to I 0 pm Feb 4:1:16 at the National Guard Armory 628 7414 Grand Ave Waxahachie They are for discussion of potential roblems posed by the mammoth Superconducting Super Collider project department spokesman Jeff Sherwood said yesterday If built in Ellis County the accelerah tor would consist of a research center and a 53-mile underground oval tunnel in the Waxahachie area The department is conducting similar meetings in six other states vying for the Super Collider Arizona North Carolina Tennessee Colorado Michi gan and Illinois has proposed that the atom smasher to be the largest and most powerful in the world be built on a site 35 miles southeast of Fort Worth The Super Collider's above-ground facilities including offices and labora-lories would be located in rural Ellis County about a quarter-mile east of Maypearl The rest of the atom smasher would be underground Its subterranean ring would com'1 -pletely encircle Waxahachie The tun t' nel would be about three miles from developed sections of Midlothian and about a half-mile from developed por' tions of Ennis said Ennis City Manager Steve Howerton who is vice president of operations for the Dallas-Fort Worth Superconducting Super Collider Authority 'Sherwood said a team of Energy De' partment officials will listen to con' cems about the project's potential effect on public services schools and the housing market The officials also will take comments on environmental is sues such as how construction will af: feet wildlife or farms in Ellis County he said But the team will not take comments or questions on property condemnabon Sherwood said That issue will be handled by the i Iexas National Research Laboratory Commission the state agency created ry A 42iM 4 A 41 40 4P4 1 Art 81 ggrl 0 0 rf! 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