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Show j i- , -' . . i- A new road Is being added to the County Collector system, providing access f to the Moab Golf Course directly from Highway 163. The land for the road 'jH' was given to the County by George White, whose property It Intercepts from MU1 Creek Drive where it connects to the present Golf Course road. From f White's property, the road connects onto the Spanish Trail road which joins U. S. 163. The project should be completed, including a large culvert across 3 Pack Creek, within the next month, and will probably be paved sometime ; later this summer according to road supervisor, J. V. Westwood. & Highway Projects Planned in Utah p Utah highway officials have established a priority prior-ity list of projects on which they plan to spend whatever money the state stands to receive from the $2 billion in impounded impound-ed highway funds recently released by President Ford --provided the state can come up with the necessary matching money. mo-ney. The President recently placed into a single "pot" some $2 billion in unobligated un-obligated highway funds for the balance of this fiscal year, and "sweetened" "sweet-ened" it with the release of S2 billion more in impounded im-pounded highway funds --funds --funds which Congress appropriated ap-propriated to the states, but which were held up by the federal administration admini-stration for various reasons. rea-sons. The collective highway fund "pot" will be given giv-en out to the states on a first come, first served serv-ed basis until the money is gone, or until June 30th, which ever Comes first. The object of the competition is for states to get as many projects ready for contract as they possibly can before the June 30th deadline, and the faster the better. Those states which can "obligate" the money to projects the fastest will have the advantage. Engineers from the I t- ah Highway Department's six districts and central office met recently with the Utah State Road Commission Com-mission to determine which of Utah's high priority pri-ority projects would be ready before the June 30 deadline. They came up with an estimated S83.3 million worth of Interstate Inter-state Projects, $19 million mil-lion worth of Primary Projects, 56 million worth of State Secondary-Projects, Secondary-Projects, $10 million in Urban System Projects, $1.4 million worth of Urban Ur-ban Extension Projects, $3 million worth of Safety Saf-ety Pr4hn Projects, and 1.3 million worth of County Secondary Projects Pro-jects which could be potential po-tential candidates for the released funds. State Highway Engineer C. V. Anderson said it is unlikely that all of the projects on the list will be ready for contract by the June 30 deadline. He pointed out that only about a third of the projects could be funded anyway, because the combined cost of constructing all of them would far exceed the state's apportionment of federal highway money. mo-ney. However, he said Utah will be able to ob- 3 ligate at least $40 mil- u lion worth of federal aid :A projects. |