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Article: Radar for Provo Airport?
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2006
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PROVO -- A turbulent effort to bring radar to the Provo Municipal
Airport might enjoy a soft landing now that the Salt Lake
International Airport plans to help and new U.S. Transportation
Secretary Mary Peters is planning a visit.
The Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly turned down
requests by city leaders and Utah's senators to put radar in Provo
because the FAA doesn't believe the airport is busy enough. Salt Lake
City's support is conditioned on basing the radar at the Point of the
Mountain, and the plan could get a boost when Peters visits for a
personal inspection at the invitation of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
Salt Lake City is interested in radar at the Point of the Mountain ...