Agency: Transportation

Line Item: Region Management

Function

The Utah Department of Transportation consists of a central office, four region offices, and three districts maintenance offices. The four regional offices are located in Ogden, Salt Lake, Orem, and Richfield. The three district maintenance offices are located in Richfield, Price, and Cedar City.

While the regions and districts were originally organized to perform only maintenance work, they acquired the function of construction, preconstruction and materials labs when these functions were partially decentralized. The reasons for decentralization were to have work planned and supervised in close proximity to the area and people being served.

Traditional work performed by a district or region is divided into six functional areas of responsibility. The functional areas are administration, preconstruction, materials labs, construction, maintenance, and safety/loss management.

Statutory Authority

The Regional Management Division of the Utah Department of Transportation is governed by the UCA 72-6.

Intent Language

Under terms of Section 63J-1-603-(3)(a) Utah Code Annotated the Legislature intends that appropriations provided for Region Management in item 5 of Chapter12 Laws of Utah 2012 not lapse at the close of Fiscal Year 2013. The use of any non-lapsing funds limited to the following: Region Management $200,000.

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Program: Region 1

Function

Region 1 is responsible for highway needs in Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, Weber, and Davis Counties in the northern part of Utah. The region headquarters is located in Ogden. They are assigned responsibility for designing, constructing and maintaining State highways in those counties.

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Program: Region 2

Function

UDOT Region 2 is the geographic area contained within Tooele, Salt Lake and Summit counties. Within this region there are approximately 850 center lane miles or the equivalent to 3,510 miles of state-owned roadways, mostly in highly urbanized locations. This setting creates a particular set of challenges that has continually encouraged Region Two leaders to find innovative ways to achieve the department's final four strategic goals. These innovative ways range from implementing cost and time saving techniques that deliver large complex construction projects, to increasing safety while minimizing delays and impacts to a wide variety of stakeholders.

UDOT Region 2 has pioneered innovative highway projects that are not only being implemented in Utah, but to some extent across the country include:

• The construction and replacement of bridges using Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) techniques; with Region Two having replaced the 40th bridge in Utah using this technique. It has also installed precast deck panels, precast abutments, and precast approach slabs.
• The construction of ten Continuous Flow Intersections (CFIs) on the west side of Salt Lake County along Bangerter Highway and Redwood Road.
• The implementation of two Thru-Turn Intersections to maintain the economic vitality of local municipalities, increase safety and help mitigate traffic growth projections.
• Traffic and Safety operations across the region are setting the standard across the state when it comes to coordinating a world class array of traffic signal activities.

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Program: Region 3

Function

Region 3 covers an area from the east side of the State to the west border with Nevada. They serve the six counties of Dagget, Duchesne, Juab, Uintah, Utah, and Wasatch. Headquarters for Region 3 are located at Orem. With both rural and urban demands, the Region has a diversified work load.

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Program: Region 4

Function

Region 4 is organized into the following major Divisions: Administration, Preconstruction, Project Management, Materials, Operations, and Maintenance and Construction. Each division performs many important functions for the fourteen counties that they serve. They coordinate environmental challenges, right of way acquisitions, traffic safety, preconstruction services, project management, communication, and local government coordination as they plan and construct highways.

The old Richfield, Price, & Cedar administrative districts have been consolidated into the Region Administration. The expenditures for FY 2010 and appropriations for FY 2011 are shown separately under the administrative districts, but beginning in FY 2012 appropriations will be under the Region 4 Administration.

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Program: Richfield

Function

Richfield Administrative District has been consolidated into Region 4's Administration. The only individual and cost being associated with this appropriation code is the Richfield Warehouse.

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Program: Price

Function

The Price-East District operation provides oversight to the maintenance and construction activities within Region 4. The Price-East district engineer and warehouse will continue to be reported financially as the Price organizational unit, but with the Region's appropriations coding.

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Program: Cedar City

Function

The Cedar City-West District operation provides oversight to the maintenance and construction activities within Region 4.. The Cedar City-West district engineer and warehouse will continue to be reported financially as a separate organizational unit, but with the Region's appropriations coding.

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