Posted by Tara Flanagan | Jan 29, 2021
Eagle County got the attention of the Surface Transportation Board this week, prompting the agency to make a 15-day extension on the comment period for a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on the proposed Uinta Basin Railway in northeastern Utah. Comments are now due Feb. 12.
The Unita Basin Railway is a proposed link to the oil shale reserves of northeastern Utah.
Chaffee County has joined efforts to comment with with Eagle County and the Town of Avon, bringing attention to the Tennessee Pass Line and how it could in the future fit into plans to deliver oil shale out of the Uinta Basin and onward to the larger rail network.
Chaffee County Commissioners advised staff to move forward on the CR 107 boundary line adjustment project, involving four different parties and a land trade involving three pieces of property, which Commissioner Greg Felt said was, âkind of complicated, with a lot of moving parts.â
The project involves the joint Salida and Chaffee County CR 107 gravel pit, a retention drainage basin and land east of CR 108.Â
Chaffee County manages the pit, Mark Stacy, county road and bridge supervisor said.Â
SSG Holdings, LLC owns the land east of the pit. Chaffee County owns Woodlawn cemetery, which is surrounded by SSG Holdings land.Â
The retention drainage basin is on SSG Holdingsâ land. Jon Roorda, county planning manager said, the basin is important for drainage.Â
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