AP&L: Plant Hearings

The Arkansas Public Service Commission has finally set a schedule for its licensing hearings on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed 2800 megawatt coal-burning power plant near Pine Bluff, Ark.

The Public Service Commission will meet with the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), the community group that asked for Harvard's help last fall in opposing the plant, on May 1. All written testimony on the plant is due at the Public Service Commission on June 1, and the hearings--which could well last up to two months--will begin about June 15.