In general, mass transit fared well. About $2 million was set aside for UTA intermodal facilities and $5.8 million for statewide buses. Light rail, commuter rail and even a central Utah rail received funding.

It seems there was something for everyone in the bill. Conservationists will like the $500,000 for USU to study renewable energy, hikers will like the $1.8 million more for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, former governor Mike Leavitt will like the $800,000 for his pet project Western Governor's University, and dinosaur lovers will like the $560,000 for new buildings at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.

There is money for new campgrounds, new airports, new sewer systems and a new Elizabethan theater in Cedar City.

And if a lot of that smells a lot like political pork, perhaps it's because the bill includes $300,000 to fund a program addressing the discharge of animal wastes at concentrated animal feeding operations.

That would include Utah pig farms.

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