Thursday, January 19, 2012

Utah floods bring most federal aid of any state

Utah may be a desert, but disastrous flooding here last year led it to receive the most of any state in a big package of federal emergency agricultural disaster aid announced. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Utah $60.3 million out of the $307.6 million given nationally — about 20 percent of the national total. Utah’s money is for emergency watershed repair projects statewide. Salt Lake Tribune