WASHINGTON – Federal regulators have issued a 626-page draft environmental assessment for Savage Tooele Railroad’s proposed 11-mile Utah spur project.
The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis will accept public comment on the draft report through Oct. 30.
Savage Tooele proposes connecting the Lakeview Business Park in Grantsville, Utah, with Union Pacific’s Shafter Subdivision at Burmester, Utah. The project would create a new common carrier short line railroad, which requires STB approval.
The project would involve rehabilitating a six-mile segment of a former branch line and building five miles of new railroad to reach the business park that opened in 2020.
The draft environmental report is available online.
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