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Show 1-70 Development Plan Due After Jan. Meeting Final recommendations for developments along I-70 I-70 through virgin territory between Green River and Salina are due to be made at a committee meeting Jan. 18 at the State Capitol, Capi-tol, '.Kenneth C. Olson, state planning coordinator and committee chairman, predicts pre-dicts that construction of a. service station, motel and other facilities will be rec-cfnmehded rec-cfnmehded at the Mofcre Interchance. . Controlled Development Either federal land there ctfuld be exchanged to the state in lieu of other lands dut it or the U.S. Bureau of Land Management itself could grant a lease for controlled con-trolled development, Olson said. ; Ultimately , the county road extending northwestward northwest-ward frorri the Interchange to Moore Is to be surfaced. Other members of the advisory ad-visory committee includs GardeU ' Snow, Ferron, chairman, Emery County Commission; Arnel T. Das. trup, Richfield, chairman, Sevier County Commission ; Mayor Rey Lloyd Hatt of Green River; Mayor Harold Peterson of Salina and Ralph J. Miller, Sr., chairman chair-man of the Grand County Commission. The State Road Commission Commis-sion meeting Friday in Moab Mo-ab is expected to announce the nine members of its new Environmental Advisory Advis-ory Committee. Conserve Beauties Highways increasingly will have to be designed to achieve the ultimate in preserving pre-serving natural beauties and serving. the people. This committee will advise ad-vise the Road Commission on future road projects. Also to be aired at the meeting are views of local citizens relative to propos. ed realignment southward of 1-70 in the areas of Cres. cent Junction to Thompson to avoid underlying Mancos shale. |