Ogden, Utah • State transportation officials are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit in northern Utah seeking to block a major reconstruction of U.S. Highway 89 through Weber and Davis counties.
A grassroots group, “Residents’ Voices United on 89,” filed a suit in Salt Lake County in April seeking to declare the Utah Department of Transportation’s environmental study of the project invalid.
That would bring a halt any highway reconstruction until another environmental review is conducted in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reports that the UDOT’s new filing on Tuesday says nothing in the project requires any major federal action that would trigger NEPA requirements.