In a statement, ODOT Director Matthew Garrett said the project will begin the process of orderly archival and closeout.
“We have the fiduciary responsibility to close out the project in a systematic, retrievable manner in order to adequately preserve a decade of research, environmental reviews, community involvement, and detailed engineering work for potential future use. We will archive work products according to Oregon record retention requirements,” he said.
The project dies after more than ten years of planning and close to $190 million spent on engineering and traffic forecasting.
CRC staff will close out any intergovernmental agreements in place with formal stop work orders. The project will shut down completely by May 31, 2014.