The private racing industry would kick in $2.5 million, as well as Intrepid contributing a portion. Under the accelerated schedule, the Bureau of Land Management would receive $45 million from Congress in a pass-through program administered by the state of Utah. "We need to increase the scale of volume." Mike Swenson, representing a speciality automotive equipment industry, said the salt lay-down project can't keep up.
That program has been in effect since 1997, but Handy and others said it is overwhelmed. The idea is for Utah, flats manager Bureau of Land Management, private racing industry and others to form a cooperative effort to accelerate the "salt lay-down" program by Intrepid mining, which returns the salty brine to the flats after it extracts potassium. Steve Handy, R-Layton, asked members of the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday to spend $5 million to leverage against a $45 million planned federal investment to save the world-famous flats. "We know there are thousands and thousands of tourists who go out there."
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