Show Meet at Vernal notes road needs of Basin Members of the State Road Commission of Utah met in formally August 28 at Vernal with and Utah fm tan Basin The informal meeting frol 5 members a chance to determine local feeling The Commission attempts to hold one of its bi-monthly meetings away from Salt Lake City for the express purpose of hearing local road problems ONE INQUIRY aired at this meeting was a question about a section of Utah State Route 35 between and Director of Henry a reported this road la for improvement with fiscal 1966 funds in the a-mount of Helland said that normally these seven miles of road could have been placed under construction soon after July however federal aid funds are running about 90 days and the State of Utah does not expect to have any fiscal 1966 funds available for its use until Helland stated that deficiency in the highway trust fund was the cause for the he further pointed out that all not just Utah face this road financing A dein V In of funds often has the affect of delaying road construction of a particular project for a much longer For he we would not want to begin construction of the Tabi-ona Hanna section of in October when we receive the money as this would give the contractor a chance to barely begin and then the road be torn up during the winter Construction on the he will begin in the spring of ANOTHER CONCERN aired on this section of road was the excessive dust during dry Utah State Department District 6 Earl A. said a sodium clor-ide dust treatment will be made as a interim control for the dust Johnson continued it would be poor economy to take more extensive dust control measures since improvements to this road will be made beginning next The meeting in Vernal also outlined improvements to U. S. 40 to be done in the Helland said a section between Fruitland and Strawberry Reservoir is for fiscal 1966 in the amount of and construction will begin here next A SECTION of U. S. 40 from to Tabiona Junction is programmed for fiscal 1967 in the amount of Construction of this section will probably begin in the spring of 1967 Helland added a section of U. S. 40 which is to be re-routed around Starvation Reservoir is now under study to determine route location and future These improvements with other road construction underway west of Vernal will bring most of U. S. eastern Utah up to high primary Another section of the Indian Canyon road of about 5 miles will also be contracted early in the spring of ATTENDING the Vernal meeting were Duchesne County Commissioners Wilmer Murray See ROAD NEEDS Page 10 Road Needs from page and Ralph Porter L. county Elmer Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce and Charles Fabrizio of At the meeting the Duchesne county commission presented its recommendation for priority of road construction or improvement in Duchesne THE PRIORITY included the Indian Utah Highway 33 the Tabiona-Hanna segment of Utah the segment of Utah the to Tabiona segment of Utah Named in fifth priority is the Mine |