After months of meetings with land-speed racers, mining companies,
and federal agencies, the Utah House of Representatives late last week
passed a bill urging the Bureau of Land Management to make it safe once
again to race on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Introduced at the beginning of the month by Utah State Representative Stephen G. Handy, Utah House Concurrent Resolution 8
points out that racers noted a thinning of the salt flats as early as
the 1960s and that the flats were designated an Area of Critical
Environmental Concern in 1985 before "strongly urging" the BLM, the
United States Congress, and the state's congressional representatives to
come up with a plan to restore the salt flats "to safe land speed
racing conditions."
"It's a real tragedy, what's happened there," Handy told the Salt Lake Tribune.
"There are things that we cannot do that we would like to do with those
lands within our sovereign borders that we cannot effect."
So will Utah restore the famous slat flats, or has racing there dried out?
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