Our public partners, the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, and their Executive Director Mike McKee, have put enormous effort into this railway for nearly a decade.

“We appreciate the tremendous support for the future of Utah’s Uinta Basin by the Business Committee of the Ute Indian Tribe, Utah’s entire federal delegation, Governor Spencer Cox, Senate President Stuart Adams, Speaker of the House Brad Wilson, and the county commissioners and mayors of the Uinta Basin.

“We are grateful to the Board for its decision, and to the STB and the federal, state, local, and tribal cooperating agencies for their careful, thorough, and expeditious preparation of the railway’s Environmental Impact Statement,” said UBRY President Mark W. The effort is being spearheaded by Utah’s Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, Drexel Hamilton Infrastructure Partners and Rio Grande Pacific. The STB approved what has been dubbed the Whitmore Park Alternative, which will stretch 85 miles into the desert of eastern Utah. The Uinta Basin Railway will connect Utah’s oil-rich Uinta Basin with the national rail network at Kyune, Utah, on Union Pacific’s Provo Subdivision (the former Denver & Rio Grande Western over Soldier Summit). Surface Transportation Board gave the green light to the largest railroad construction project in more than a generation on Wednesday when it issued final approval for the construction of the Uinta Basin Railway in Utah. STB Gives High Green to Uinta Basin Railway

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