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Saturday, Jun. 28, 2008

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Diablo Canyon

OnTuesday, the antinuclear group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace will try to convince the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it should prepare a thorough analysis of the effects of a terrorist attack on a storage facility for highly radioactive used fuel at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

Representing Mothers for Peace at the agency’s headquarters in Rockville, Md., will be the group’s attorney Diane Curran and local activist Jane Swanson. The hearing is in response to a 2006 federal court ruling that the agency failed to consider the environmental consequences of a terrorist attack on the facility.

The agency then prepared an environmental assessment, which is much less thorough than an environmental impact statement. Curran will urge the commission to require that an EIS be written.

The hearing may be viewed as a Web cast either during or after the event by going to www.nrc.gov/public- involve /public-meetings. The hearing begins at 6 a. m. local time. —David Sneed

Pismo Beach

The onramp to southbound Highway 101 at Price Street will be closed overnight on Monday.

The ramp will be closed from 7 p. m. to 6 a. m. for roadway maintenance, according to Caltrans.

Detour signs will be posted to advise motorists of the closure and to redirect them.

—Dawn White

Arroyo Grande

Central Coast Salmon Enhancement is hosting an open house today to show

off its new location.

The nonprofit group is now at 229 Stanley Ave. in Arroyo Grande. The building is next to Arroyo Grande Creek, behind Paulding Middle School.

Visitors will be able to check out the fish lab, make hanging fish prints, feed fish, test the water quality and participate in a casting contest.

The open house runs from 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. For more information, visit www . centralcoastsalmon.com. —Dawn White

North County

Caltrans has postponed a plan to add safety rumble strips to Highway 46 west from the Cholame Creek Bridge to just east of Lucy Brown Road in Shandon.

Caltrans has not announced a new start date.

Union Asphalt of Santa Maria is the contractor for the $609,000 project.

—Bob Cuddy

SLO County

State officials are coming to San Luis Obispo on Tuesday to hear the public’s views on the future of agriculture.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is hosting the statewide listening sessions, seeking opinions from farmers, ranchers and processors as well as nutrition, conservation and rural development groups.

Those attending will include A. G. Kawamura, secretary of the CDFA; Al Montna, president of the state Board of Food and Agriculture; and other board members.

The meeting will take place from noon to 3 p. m. at San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau, 651 Tank Farm Road, San Luis Obispo.

For more information about the Agricultural Vision process, go to www.cdfa.ca. gov/agvision. —Bob Cuddy

Paso Robles

An Italian motorcycle rally, the Motogiro America, will come to the city in mid-July.

Riders on the tour plan to travel to Paso Robles on July 14, coming down Highway 1 from Northern California and through Fort Hunter Liggett.

On July 15, the group plans to travel through the vineyards on the west and south ends of Paso Robles.

On July 16, they intend to go to Parkfield and the farmland on the east side of Highway 101.

For more info, visit www.motogiroamerica.com. —Leah Etling