Convinced that a salt restoration program conducted in conjunction with the mining company that has removed millions of tons of salt from the Bonneville salt flats will return the unique landscape to its former glory, leaders from the Bonneville land-speed racing community have asked the state of Utah to chip in $5 million toward a $50 million fund for the program.
“We need to scale the salt laydown project that currently exists,” Mike Swenson, a lobbyist for the Specialty Equipment Market Association, told the Utah legislature’s Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee earlier this month. “We’re asking for the state of Utah to put some skin in the game and to use that as an incentive for the federal government to give us the remaining $45 million.”
The famous racing flats in Utah need a some big-money help.
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