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Show San Juan County Leaders Just Say No MONTICELLO Like Garfield Gar-field County Commissioners, San Juan County Commissioners are saying it won't work when it comes to trying to work things out with the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment over road issues in their county. The San Juan leaders walked away on Monday after efforts to work out a road maintenance issue on washouts on Ruin Road in Beef Basin. As a result, the county will resume its usual maintenance activities and deal with whatever consequences may result, legal or otherwise. Steve Urquhart, the county's St. George attorney, acknowledged that general agreements reached appeared workable in theory but not in practice. prac-tice. The county's road crews, experienced exper-ienced in maintaining the challenging challen-ging desert roads so susceptible to washouts, can repair them quickly and expertly to make them passable, pass-able, but BLM restraints would require re-quire a variety of studies before repairs could be made. "It just won't work," the county's commissioners arc saying echoing the stance taken by GarfielJ, County's commissioners after turning turn-ing down Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's latest offer on roads last week. |