San Miguel Power Association will not seek to close U.S. Highway 550 over Red Mountain Pass until September because it can’t secure the resources it needs to do the work that would precipitate the highway’s closure.

SMPA Engineering Manager Jeremy Fox told local elected officials, Colorado Department of Transportation officials and other stakeholders Friday afternoon that the electric cooperative has canceled the closure it had hoped to start the week of Aug. 16.

“SMPA and our c...