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Congressman Merrill Cook asks Utah Senate to back $4 billion Olympic-era transportation request
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U.S. Rep. Merrill Cook told the Utah Senate he has submitted a $4 billion transportation request to Congress for projects timed to the 2002 Winter Olympics, enumerating specific highway, rail and airport requests while urging state leaders to testify in Washington.
Congressman Merrill Cook told the Utah Senate on Feb. 28 that he has asked the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for roughly $4,000,000,000 for transportation projects timed to the 2002 Winter Olympics. "I have submitted to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on behalf of the Utah Department of Transportation a $4,000,000,000 request for infrastructure improvements geared to the 02/2002," Cook said in remarks to the chamber.
Cook listed project-level requests and priorities he said were included in the package: about $970 million to expand I‑15…
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