Article: FAA backing Provo airport radar facility

PROVO -- Radar might be placed at the Provo Municipal Airport after all, but it might depend on whether the Utah Legislature is willing to provide $2 million.

Nearly a year ago, the Federal Aviation Administration said Provo didn't qualify for radar, even though Provo and Salt Lake leaders and airport officials were willing to place a proposed station at the Point of the Mountain instead of the airport.

On Thursday, an FAA official indicated the agency is willing to match $2 million in funding to put radar in Provo, Provo Mayor Lewis Billings said.

"We have a verbal commitment that if we can find the $2 million, they'll supply the rest," he said.

The FAA also agreed to send a representative ...

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