Bulletin Daily Paper 08/14/12

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Visiting pioneer cemeteries • B1

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Facebook eyes 3rd data center in Prineville

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Facebook has subm itted plans with the city of Prine ville data center, adjac to build a third ent to the finished data center and a second that is currently under construction.

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By Elon Glucklich The Bulletin

Facebook wants to build a third data center in Prineville. The social media giant filed an application with the city Aug. 6 for the new, smaller, data center near its current buildings on Southwest Connect Way, northeast of the

Prineville Airport. The new center would be a fraction of the size of the 334,000-square-foot data facility opened in April 2011 and the twin building that’s under construction next door. But it would add to the growing number of data centers being built along

state Highway 126, enough to prompt a San Francisco Bay Area electric company that specializes in solar installations and data centers to open an office in Prineville. The Aug. 6 Facebook application proposes a facility with three “data halls,” planning documents show.

While there is no timeline for the project, the finished facility would be about 62,000 square feet, said Facebook spokesman Lee Weinstein. The proposal doesn’t necessarily mean Facebook will move forward any time soon, Weinstein said. See Data center / A5

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Inside • Where would the new data center be located? A5

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Lawsuit targets forest rules • Federal planning guidelines overemphasize sustainability, a timber industry group claims By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin

Photos by Ryan Brennecke / The Bulletin

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loating the “lazy river” feature at the Sunriver Homeowners Aquatic & Recreation Center was a popular way to beat the heat on Monday. At right,

Jennifer Whitten and her son Eamon, 6, get ready for a splash landing on SHARC’s waterslide. The warm spell is

WASHINGTON — A group of timber industry associations and other organizations sued Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the U.S. Forest Service on Monday over the agency’s new planning rule for national forests. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., the plaintiffs contend that the new rules, finalized by the Forest Service in March, wrongly prioritize “social, economic and ecological sustainability” as a guiding principle for how to manage the nearly 200 IN D.C. million acres of national forests. Historically, the framework for overseeing publicly-owned forests was set by 1960’s Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act, which required the government to consider interests beyond logging. The National Forest Management Act of 1976 specified the use of forest management plans to strike a balance between the various interests identified in the earlier law. The new planning rule goes outside the scope of these laws, according to the plaintiffs. “The (multiple-use law) requires that national forests shall be administered for outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes under the complementary management standards of multiple use and sustained yield,” the lawsuit states. “The (new) planning rule violates (this law) by requiring national forests to provide ‘ecological sustainability’ before providing any of the five statutorily-designated purposes of national forests. Providing ‘ecological sustainability’ is not a permitted purpose of national forest management under (the law).” See Forests / A4

expected to continue, with highs in the 90s likely through the weekend. For a complete forecast, see Page C6.

“We need people to understand who we’re battling for.” — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who wants Native victims of crimes by non-Indians to share their stories

Charting Ryan’s rise, from junior prom king to political star Tribes seek more By Jennifer Steinhauer, Jim Rutenberg, Mike McIntire and Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times News Service

Conrad Schmidt / The Associated Press

GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Monday.

JANESVILLE, Wis. — Rep. Paul Ryan’s childhood home here was not overtly partisan. His parents were enthusiastic supporters of Rep. Les Aspin, a Democrat, yet adored President Ronald Reagan from their

glimpses of him on the evening news. But the death of his father when Ryan was only 16 punctured his life of math tests and bike riding, and in that fissure, the seeds of his worldview were planted. “Paul went to work at McDonald’s and began to pull his own weight, and becomes class president the same year,”

Related • Campaigning in Iowa, Ryan and Obama face off in early test, A4

said his brother Tobin. “It is remarkable that he chose a path of individual responsibility and maturity rather than letting grief take a different course.” See Ryan / A4

Superfund cleanup plans are stirring up troubled waters By Anthony Depalma New York Times News Service

LYNDHURST, N.J. — This is not what a Superfund site is supposed to look like. There are no rusting barrels, no antifreeze-green slime

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oozing up from the ground. There’s just a deep bend in the Passaic River, a gaggle of Canada geese and a lone rower in a scull making good time on the calm, dark waters. Yet Mile Marker 10.9 on the Pas-

saic is most definitely a toxic hot spot. Testing late last year showed that five acres of mud flats were highly contaminated with mercury, PCBs and dioxin, which is known to cause cancer. The discovery has

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sent environmental officials and a small army of corporations scrambling to remove thousands of cubic yards of sediment with plans to seal the rest beneath a permanent cap. See Superfund / A5

INDEX Business Classified Comics

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Community B1-6 Crosswords B5, G2 Dear Abby

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Editorials C4 Local News C1-6 Obituaries C5

TODAY’S WEATHER Sports D1-6 Stocks E2-3 TV & Movies B2

Sunny High 90, Low 54 Page C6

jurisdictional power over non-Indians By Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — In 1973, the Suquamish Indian Tribe of Washington state accused a non-Indian man of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest, and ordered him to appear in tribal court. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the charges, saying the tribe had no authority to try or punish the man. Decades after the landmark ruling, it remains a source of irritation and frustration for tribal officials across the country, who complain they’re powerless to bring non-Indians to justice when they commit crimes on Indian lands. Tribal leaders say it’s particularly hard to prosecute rape cases. See Tribes / A5

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