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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Design work will start next month for a new visitor center at the nation's premier quarry of Jurassic-period dinosaur bones.
The National Park Service has signed a decision allowing construction for a new visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument.
The Quarry Visitor Center, about 20 miles east of Vernal, has been closed for more than two years because of safety problems. The center was built atop unstable clay.
The center houses more than 1,500 dinosaur bones. The closure has frustrated visitors and paleontologists seeking access to what the park service calls the world's best window into late-Jurassic fossils.
Mary Risser, the monument's superintendent, says design of the new $10 million building will take about a year. The project has not been funded.
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