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Four plans in play to move Utah State Prison
By deseretnews.com
Published: 01/27/2014

SALT LAKE CITY — Four proposals are in play to move the 3,980 inmate capacity prison at Draper from its current site to a new location by as early as 2018, a committee tasked with analyzing the feasibility of such a move announced Friday.

"Today was really the payoff," Lane Summerhays, chairman of the Prison Relocation and Development Authority said, following a meeting of the group. "I'm comfortable with where we are."

Summerhays said the group will meet Feb. 5 with just one agenda item — to discuss the four options that include complete replacement or phased in plans, and a fifth option to simply keep the prison at its current site at Point of the Mountain, which also carries considerable cost.

A recommendation will then be sent to the state Legislature for consideration and bids would go out for construction. Brad Sassatelli, the hired consultant of Texas-based MGT of America, presented the options to the authority:

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