Highway project through Book Cliffs in eastern Utah suspended (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) The Book Cliffs near State Road 45, south of Vernal. By The Associated Press | Updated: Dec. 23, 2020, 12:53 a.m. A group of rural counties in Utah has suspended a highway construction project that would run through the Book Cliffs in Grand County. The group — called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition — unanimously voted Friday to halt the project because of opposition from residents who live in the county where the highway would be built, KUER-FM reported. The 35-mile road was first proposed in the 1980s to move oil out of the Uinta Basin, county officials said. It was estimated to cost about $350 million in 2015.