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Commissioners weigh per-well, per-mile road impact fees; consultants propose options from $27,900 to $18,400
Summary
In a work session, county staff and consultants presented a transportation mitigation fee for oil-and-gas activity that ranged from an initial engineering estimate of $40,600 per well per mile down to $27,900 after a statistical adjustment; additional options (county covering some items and using overlays for half of roads) could lower the figure to about $23,000 or $18,400 per well per mile.
Duchesne County commissioners heard a technical briefing Oct. 7 on a proposed transportation mitigation fee to recover industry road impacts from oil-and-gas development. Jones & DeMille and county engineers presented a formula-based approach using pavement structural analysis and sample road cores across the county.
The initial detailed estimate used a conservative 95% reliability factor and produced a per-well, per-mile replacement cost of about…
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