APACHE COUNTY — The Board of Supervisors approved a resolution that is making the rounds of local governments, to extend the public comment period on the EPA’s plan to require additional pollution controls for nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide on three power plants in eastern Arizona, including SRP’s Coronado Generating Station outside St. Johns and Cholla in Joseph City.

The board members spent close to a half hour discussing the plan and stressing the need for a public hearing in St. Johns. There was only one public hearing held in Phoenix on July 31 until pressure was put on the EPA to hold further meetings. Two other hearings have been scheduled, one in Benson and one in Holbrook.