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Utah port authority memos reveal coal industry ties to California rail controversy

The Utah Inland Port Authority briefly worked behind the scenes to advance a secretive proposal to rehabilitate an unused California railroad for coal.

Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune Coal is piled up at the Levan transfer facility along Interstate 15--south of Nephi. Utah Community Impact Board awarding a $50 million loan to four coal-producing counties to build a deep-water port in Oakland, Calif. that would be a shipping point for Utah coal. We want to illustrate Utah's current coal industry chain and points that might have between 1 and 3 million tons of coal moving through them in the future.