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Senate to hear Desert Rock tax-credit plan .
Lawmakers are considering a multimillion-dollar tax break for an international power company working with the Navajo Nation to build a coal-fired electric-generating facility south of Shiprock. The tax credit is part of an omnibus-tax package the Senate is scheduled to hear today. Tribal officials say the two proposed 750-megawatt plants called the Desert Rock facility would bring millions of dollars in revenue and provide hundreds of jobs to Navajo people. But some Navajos living near the proposed plant and a Navajo legislator oppose the tax credit and the project. They say it would only add to the brown cloud hanging over the region from two other generating plants and use precious water in a region now under official drought warning.
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