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Utah OHP advisory council hears legislative update on OHV funding, new mitigation grant and maintenance shop
Summary
Division of Outdoor Recreation Director Jason Curry briefed the Utah Off Highway Vehicle (OHP) Advisory Council on registration counts, recent legislative changes affecting the OHP restricted account, appropriations for a maintenance shop and ranger housing, and the new Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant funded by a hotel-tax increase.
Jason Curry, director of the Division of Outdoor Recreation, told the Utah Off Highway Vehicle Advisory Council that the state has more than 227,000 registered off-highway vehicles and that the division has been moving increasing amounts from the OHP restricted account into grants and projects.
Curry said the annual appropriation used for the OHP grant program is $3,500,000, and noted that earlier one-time appropriations and under-spending in earlier years boosted available grant funds so the program was able to award roughly $6 million in recent years. “There are 227,000 plus registered OHVs in the state,”…
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