By East SLC News Report |
May 22, 2023
On May 19, 2023, Rep. Burgess Owens (UT-04) joined U.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Mike Lee (R-UT), and Representatives Chris Stewart (UT-02), John Curtis (UT-03), and Blake Moore (UT-01), introduced the Chemical and Biological Defense Program Improvement Act, legislation to remove a bureaucratic roadblock that prevents the U.S. Army from requesting funding for military construction projects related to chem-bio program facilities like those at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground.