the applicant to us, the public, and I as an appellant, and postpones analysis the longer fires at the approval stage. Fourth, the finding of no detriment to public health safety or welfare, ignores the record the site lies within the range of protected species, introduces industrial infrastructure into a recreation-heavy corridor, and acknowledges traffic impacts without meaningful analysis of effects on recreational access. Under Utah law, public welfare includes environmental integrity, recreation, and long-term land stewardship, not merely the absence of immediate hazards. The Wellstraw Energy LLC natural gas power plant cannot be lawfully evaluated in isolation from its surrounding regional context.

Duchesne County Code 813.4 requires affirmative evidence-based findings that a proposed conditional use will not be unduly detrimental to the public welfare and that the site size- sorry, I'm here- size and dimensions allow the use to operate without materially harming adjoining and surrounding properties. The findings report does not satisfy those requirements when the full context of this location is considered. Pine Mountain Canyon is a nationally recognized cultural and recreational landscape, often described as the world's longest art gallery, with thousands of irreplaceable rock art sites and a longstanding designation as a Scenic Backcountry Byway. Federal land managers and preservation organizations have repeatedly emphasized that the canyon is fragile and highly sensitive to industrial traffic, noise, and cumulative disturbance. Gate Canyon Access and Wells Draw function as access gateways to Nine Mile Canyon and the sandwash put-in to the Green River, meaning industrial development in this corridor directly affects the canyon's use, integrity, and visitor experience.

The findings report contains no substantive analysis of how a large, continuously operating industrial power plant capable of driving increased traffic, noise, lighting, and air emissions will avoid degrading that adjacent cultural landscape. The project is also located near the Sand Wash put-in on the Green River, which is not a minor access point but a primary gateway for floating desolation in Great Canyons. Sand Wash includes a managed camping, parking, and a boat ramp and is subject to permit requirements because of its regional recreational importance. Industrialization in the access corridor leading to Sand Wash foreseeably affects public safety, traffic conflicts, dust, noise, and the quality of a major outdoor recreation experience. Those are direct public welfare considerations under 813.4, and yet the finding report does not meaningfully analyze them.

In addition, this site lies within a wildlife movement and hunting landscape that includes the Nine Mile Anthromite and Bench hunting unit, as reflected on the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources hunt planner maps, which were included in the, our original appeal letter. Um, and that was English as well. The Pleasant Valley Mountain area also supports extensive hunting and wildlife-based recreation,