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Show Awards Honor UDOT Projects Federally Highway Administration Admini-stration officials presented the Utah Department of Transportation Thursday with two somewhat belated awards for first place honors in the FHWA's 1975 'The Highway And Its Environment Environ-ment Contest." FHWA Division Administrator Adminis-trator George Bohn presented two handsome plaques to Utah Governor Scott Mathe-son Mathe-son and UDOT Assistant Director Di-rector C.V. Anderson during ceremonies held in the Governor's Gover-nor's office. The first plaque designated a ten-mile section of 1-70 through Spotted Wolf Canyon in Emery County as the "outstanding section of highway high-way in its rural environment." The prize winning section runs from Rattlesnake Bench to Saleratus Wash. The second plaque recognized recogniz-ed a joint project between Peoples Freeway, Inc., a Salt Lake City neighborhood organization or-ganization of low-income families, fami-lies, and the UDOT as the "outstanding example of multiple mul-tiple use of highway right-of-way." The project enabled Peoples Freeway, Inc., to utilize surplus right-of-way next to the 9th South Connection Connec-tion to 1-15 in Salt Lake City to grow vegetables for needy citizens. Mr. Bohn said the plaques were originally scheduled to be presented last year, but were damaged in transit from Washington, D.C. and had to be "remade from scratch." Also during the ceremonies, Daniel R. Dunlap, regional architect for the American Institute of Steel Construction Construc-tion presented the UDOT with an "Award of Merit" for the design and ownership of the Dirty Devil River Bridge on U-24 near the north edge of Hanksville. During 1976, the AISC selected se-lected eight Prize Bridges and 17 Award of Merit bridges from 117 entries across the nation. The Dirty Devil River Bridge won an Award of Merit in the Medium Span Low Clearance Category for its "imaginative and aesthetic use of fabricated structural steel." Mr. Dunlap also presented awards to Alan Young, of L.A. Young Sons Construction Company of Richfield for being be-ing the contractor of the project, and to Robert Snell of The Western Steel Company of Salt Lake City for fabricating fabricat-ing and erecting the steel for the bridge. This was the seventh time the UDOT has won awards in the AISC competition. |