Veto Foils Housing

Tue., Oct. 7, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

The University of Utah’s plans to build student and Olympic housing was put in limbo by President Clinton’s veto of legislation that would have funded a new home for the Army Reserve.

The university wanted to start building a student housing complex next year on what is now Fort Douglas. That would allow one year of use before the housing was converted into the Olympic Village for 5,000 athletes during the 2002 Winter Games.

Congress last month approved $12.7 million for new facilities for the Fort Douglas-based 96th Regional Support Command. Those were to be built at Camp Williams, 35 miles southwest of Salt Lake, freeing 11 acres at the fort adjacent to the university.

The $12.7 million was among 38 military construction projects Clinton killed by using his line-item veto.

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