The short version
- UIPA's leaders told a committee that UIPA has no zoning power, creates no new taxes and has given no incentives to data centers. Each is true as UIPA defines it, but each leaves out something in UIPA's own records.
- Two figures said to legislators don't match UIPA's own press releases: public safety money ($5 million said, $2.5 million in the release) and A1 Lithium's investment ("billion plus" said, about $569 million in the release).
- UIPA's board approved a $4.875 million loan, covering a power plant, to the developer of the Tooele Valley data center campus in 2024. UIPA doesn't count loans as incentives. The loan has been paid off.
- UIPA's own plans project $568.8 million for UIPA from three of its 16 project areas over 25 years. If all three are extended to 40 years, the Hive estimates about $910 million, and it could be higher.
- Several successes named at the hearing came with UIPA money that wasn't mentioned, including an $18 million loan to Delta and a rebate for A1 Lithium capped at about $194 million.
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Start here: what UIPA is
The Legislature created the Utah Inland Port Authority in 2018. It is run by a board that is appointed, not elected.
In its project areas, UIPA keeps 75% of the new property tax that comes from growth, for 25 years per parcel, and the board can extend that 15 more years if it finds a "significant benefit." The other 25% goes to the county, school district and other local taxing entities. UIPA uses its share for infrastructure, loans and rebates to companies. It now has 16 project areas statewide.
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). Two things heard at the hearing about the time limit. (1) In the machine transcript of the Hive's recording, the extension to 40 years is described as something "a city can extend." This page says UIPA's board makes that decision. The page text above is unchanged; the different wording needs the official audio before anything is corrected either way. (2) UIPA said that because the clock starts parcel by parcel, collection ran "around 30 years" in one case. Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video).
The words used on this page, like "tax differential," "AIB" and "PID," are explained in Words to know.
Fact or fiction: claim by claim
Each card shows what was said, the verdict, and what the record shows. Use the buttons to show one kind of verdict at a time.
Matches today's law. In 2022 the Utah Supreme Court held that the inland port law "does not delegate zoning or land-use authority to the port authority." UIPA's own June 25, 2026 statement says it "does not zone property, approve land uses or determine which developments are allowed."
Left out: the original 2018 law did give UIPA's board power over land use. Its board could review "any land use decision" an adversely affected person brought to it and overrule a city decision it found "detrimental" to the port's goals. A 2018 special session narrowed that power, and it is not in today's law.
Sources: KSL on the Supreme Court ruling (June 29, 2022); Utah League of Cities and Towns letter on the 2018 special session; UIPA, "UIPA's Position on Data Centers" (June 25, 2026).
True for the newer project areas. Weber County, for example, passed resolutions in 2023 and 2024 before West Weber was created.
Left out: the first and largest area, the Northwest Quadrant in Salt Lake City, was drawn by the Legislature in 2018, not by invitation. Salt Lake City sued over the law and lost at the Utah Supreme Court in 2022.
Sources: KSL (June 29, 2022); Weber County Commission Resolutions 39-2023 and 02-2024 (in the West Weber case file).
True that no new tax rate is created. UIPA keeps a share of the growth on property taxes that already exist.
Left out:
- The 75% UIPA keeps is money the county, school district and other local taxing entities would otherwise collect when that land develops. They go without it for 25 years per parcel, or up to 40.
- UIPA pledges its share to PIDs, and a PID can put assessments or a property tax on the land inside it. Tooele Valley's PID has issued $33 million in bonds. That is not a tax on the general public, but it is a charge on owners inside the district.
- Part of UIPA's 75% goes back to companies as rebates, such as Lakeshore Learning's 60% for 25 years in Golden Spike and A1 Lithium's 50% (below).
Sources: West Weber, Golden Spike and Tooele Valley project area plans; Tooele Valley PID bonds (Tooele case file).
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). Rep. Hansen asked whether businesses outside a project area end up paying more. UIPA answered that projects inside a project area can use tax-exempt bonding, which landowners outside one don't get. Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video).
The math is right. The split is on the growth above the frozen base, not on the whole tax bill.
"Stays in the project area" is mostly true. West Weber's own budget table also takes out $18.0 million (5%) for UIPA's administrative costs and $10.8 million (3%) for wetland mitigation over 25 years. The plan does not say where those dollars are spent.
Fair point UIPA makes: if the land would not develop without UIPA, locals get 25% of something instead of 100% of almost nothing. West Weber's land brings in about $190,000 a year in property tax today. Whether that development would have come anyway is the question readers can weigh.
Where the law lets the money go (added Oct. 28, 2026). Utah Code 11-58-602, as amended by S.B. 225 (2026), lists what UIPA may spend its share on. Some of it has to stay with the project area. Some of it does not:
- Stays: infrastructure inside the project area. And money from one project area can't pay for a development project in a different project area (11-58-602(5)). That part of UIPA's claim is in the law.
- Can go elsewhere: UIPA's own "administrative, overhead, legal, consulting, and other operating expenses" (11-58-602(1)(b)).
- Can go elsewhere: infrastructure outside a project area, if UIPA's board decides by resolution that it benefits the project area. The law says the board's decision on that is final (11-58-602(1)(e) and (4)).
- Can go elsewhere: up to 10% for affordable housing "within or near" the project area (11-58-602(6)).
- Can go elsewhere: land or easements that are part of or next to UIPA land, bond payments, and sharing with other local taxing entities (11-58-602(1)(g), (1)(h) and (7)).
So the closer wording is: most of the money stays with the project area, and the law leaves room for the rest to go elsewhere.
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). UIPA also said "SB 206" requires board approval for every use of the tax money. The bill number was heard from the audio and has not been checked; it is not yet matched to a bill on le.utah.gov. Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video).
Sources: West Weber Project Area Plan, Appendix D budget summary; Utah Code 11-58-602 as amended by S.B. 225 (2026), 3rd substitute, lines 465–549.
This was the member's own description, not UIPA's. UIPA's answer was about property taxes on land and buildings, not on products sold. If you quote the member, it's worth noting the difference.
True since 2023, when UIPA chose the State Auditor for its yearly financial audit.
Left out: the first one, for the year ended June 30, 2023, found two "significant deficiencies": "errors in preparing the financial statements" and "not complying with bond reporting requirements," plus weak purchasing practices. UIPA said it would fix them.
Sources: Office of the State Auditor news release (Dec. 21, 2023); UIPA's response to the findings.
The Hive has not yet found those two audit reports. Until they are read, this is UIPA's claim.
True. The Legislative Auditor General issued "A Limited Review of the Utah Inland Port Authority," Report 2022-07, in September 2022.
What that audit found:
- About 81% of UIPA's original contracts were sole-sourced, which the auditors said "reduces transparency."
- Two contracts raised questions about ties between port staff and the contractors.
- A $150 million bond was largely unspent.
- The board needed to be more involved, including an audit committee and a board treasurer.
Sources: Legislative Auditor General, Report 2022-07; FOX 13 (Sept. 20, 2022).
UIPA posts board agendas and minutes publicly, and plans and budgets are posted before board votes. Minutes from June 26, 2025 show members of the public attending and commenting.
Sources: UIPA Board Meetings & Agendas page; UIPA board minutes, June 26, 2025.
True, but the rules changed recently:
- UIPA's own summary of the 2026 session says new laws added "protected records and nondisclosure agreements" provisions.
- Since S.B. 277 (2025), GRAMA appeals go to a single director at the Government Records Office, not to the citizen State Records Committee.
Sources: UIPA, "Legislative Updates Following 2026 Session" (Mar. 28, 2026); S.B. 277 (2025).
True by UIPA's own definition of an incentive as cash to a business. The Hive found no record of a cash rebate to a data center.
Left out: on April 29, 2024, UIPA's board approved a $4.875 million infrastructure loan to Zenith Bolinder, developer of the Tooele Valley data center campus. UIPA's own loan page lists its uses as water, sewer, roads and a power plant. It was a one-year loan at 3.47%, and it has been paid off.
The developer, Chuck Akerlow, told the Salt Lake Tribune his project "would not be possible without the incentives and financing provided by the port authority."
The same site also has a Love's, a hotel and warehouses, so the record shows the loan went to the data center's developer. It does not show the money went to the data center itself.
Sources: UIPA 2024 Annual Report; UIPA, "Who Qualifies for AIB Loans"; Salt Lake Tribune (Tooele case file).
The Hive found no record of a city or county asking UIPA for data center incentives. But two project area plans the counties consented to list data centers as an industry UIPA is aiming for: West Weber and Tooele Valley (Plan Amendment #2).
Matches UIPA's June 25, 2026 statement, which says it "is not providing financial incentives to data centers and is not actively recruiting data centers to its project areas."
Left out: the UIPA board approved Tooele Valley Plan Amendment #2 that same day. Its "Recruitment Strategy" section names data centers as one of four industries UIPA is aiming for, alongside light industrial, manufacturing and distribution.
Sources: UIPA statement (June 25, 2026); Tooele Valley Project Area Plan, Amendment #2 (June 25, 2026).
His own statement, and it fits the Zenith loan above. He also said "infrastructure can be a benefit." UIPA's loans ran at 3.04%–3.47%. The average 30-year home mortgage was 6.76%–7.08% in September 2026, about twice as high.
Also at the hearing: Rep. Larson asked whether the West Weber wastewater facility could serve a data center. Hart said "potentially" and called it a "gray area."
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). Hart's fuller answers to Rep. Larson, for fairness. Asked whether UIPA could use its tax money to build infrastructure for a data center outside a project area, Hart said, "I don't think so." He then said the West Weber wastewater facility "will probably serve a broader area" than the project area. Asked whether a data center could use it, he said "potentially… but that's certainly not our intent." Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video).
UIPA's June statement says it "supports and adheres to data center moratoriums enacted by local communities." After Tooele County paused new data center applications, UIPA said it was "not slated to consider" financing that area "any time soon — if at all" (Utah News Dispatch, Sept. 3, 2026). The Northwest Quadrant is the exception noted above.
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). The "rubber stamp" exchange. A legislator said a county commission had called itself a "rubber stamp" on a northern Utah data center because MIDA had already decided it, and asked UIPA about it. UIPA's presenter said "Dan might be better to comment" (Dan Hemmert, MIDA's director), and the legislator withdrew the question. The county was not named on the recording.
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). UIPA's own process, in its words (fair to UIPA). In the same answer, UIPA said that under its board a project like that would go to the community first, in a public meeting with public comment, and then through two UIPA board meetings. Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video). See the MIDA hearing check, claim #1.
UIPA says this in writing too. Its June statement says it "will continue to adhere to HB 507."
Left out: following H.B. 507 doesn't come with a water limit.
- H.B. 507's new zone chapter does not carry forward the 200,000-gallons-a-day water limit in UIPA's older law.
- S.B. 225 (2026) changed UIPA's own rule. The fixed limit had applied only in Salt Lake City; now it applies statewide and is set by local standards, with no fixed ceiling.
Sources: H.B. 507 (2026); S.B. 225 (2026), all substitutes (S.B. 225 case file).
12 officers: matches. $5 million for public safety: doesn't match UIPA's own release. UIPA's April 28, 2026 release says the $5 million was split: $2.5 million for public safety and $2.5 million for Great Salt Lake wetland conservation.
Source: UIPA, "UIPA, Salt Lake City Partnership to Add Officers Serving West-Side Industrial Area" (Apr. 28, 2026).
UIPA's own release says about $569 million.
Left out: the same release says UIPA's board approved a rebate for A1 Lithium of 50% of UIPA's tax differential for up to 25 years, capped at $193,995,683. It lists about 138 permanent jobs and 511 construction jobs.
Added Nov. 2, 2026 (second pass). UIPA also cited a "27,000% ROI" for A1 Lithium, and said its rebate of about 50% is "a little bit bigger than we normally go." Neither figure has been checked against the official video or a UIPA record. Source: the Hive's phone Recording 9, Oct. 21, 2026, machine transcript (not yet checked against the official video).
Source: "UIPA Approves Incentive for A1 Lithium in Castle Country Project Area" (Sept. 9, 2026).
The purchase is on record. UIPA paid $20 million to the state Trust Lands Administration for the 770-acre North Temple site. Trust Lands had bought it from the Church's Suburban Land Reserve. Salt Lake City ran the landfill from 1959 to 1979.
Left out: cleanup is estimated at $30–40 million for the first phase and possibly $150–200 million in all. Part of it is paid from the $150 million bond originally meant for a cancelled transload facility, the same bond the 2022 audit found largely unspent.
The 600,000 tires figure is Hart's statement; the Hive found no record of it.
Sources: Salt Lake Tribune (Feb. 14, 2025); UIPA release (Feb. 11, 2025).
The EPA awarded $112.4 million in November 2024: $110 million to the state Division of Air Quality and $2.4 million to UIPA.
Left out: UIPA's own Feb. 21, 2025 post said the grant was paused in a broader federal grant pause. The Hive could not find whether it was restored. "Awarded" matches the record; "brought" may not.
Sources: Utah Business (Nov. 4, 2024); UIPA, "EPA Clean Ports Program Grant on Pause" (Feb. 21, 2025).
UIPA announced $7.5 million for land conservation on July 15, 2026 (KSL). The coverage calls it allocated; how much has been spent is not stated.
True. UIPA's March 27, 2025 release says the expansion "will double the size of Stadler's existing facility" (245,000 square feet, more than $70 million, 500 to up to 800 jobs).
Left out: the terms. It's a rebate of 10% of Stadler's assessed property tax for up to 25 years.
Left out: UIPA lent Delta $18 million for the facility (KSL, Nov. 3, 2025). The share of Utah air cargo said at the hearing to arrive by truck is 92%, per the committee's official captions. (The Hive's own transcript of its recording had shown both "82%" and "92%.")
UIPA sent Salt Lake City a $150,000 "initial contribution" for train-wait notices (KSL, Mar. 30, 2025). KSL doesn't give the system's full cost.
UIPA's board approved $500,000 on May 21, 2026 to help the Salt Lake Garfield & Western Railway move its East Yard to a new interchange south of the airport.
UIPA's Feb. 9, 2026 letter to the Legislature reports:
- Salina: $4.66 million at 3.23% for 15 years.
- Fairfield: $1.6 million at 3.23% for 15 years.
Both have no payments for the first five years. (UIPA's news post gave Fairfield's rate as 3.13%; the letter to the Legislature is used here.)
True that UIPA is a named partner (Weber County release, Apr. 28, 2026). The release gives no UIPA dollar figure.
Left out: the $5 million UIPA loan to PCC Land LLC, the West Weber landowner, for sewer infrastructure. Its history:
- Sen. Jerry Stevenson made the motion at the UIPA board.
- It failed 9-8-3 at the Legislature's Executive Appropriations Committee on Sept. 15, 2025.
- It passed after Sen. Kirk Cullimore moved to reconsider.
- UIPA's letter to the Legislature shows it was signed Dec. 15, 2025: 3 years at 3.28%.
Sources: Weber County release (Apr. 28, 2026); UIPA board minutes (June 26, 2025); EAC minutes (Sept. 15, 2025); UIPA loan letters (Feb. 9, 2026).
How much is the 75%?
UIPA's plans project 25 years. Using each plan's own budget table, here is UIPA's share and the local share for three project areas already in the Hive's files.
- the early years are slow while land builds out, so later years are likely above the average;
- the clock starts parcel by parcel, so the whole area can collect for longer than 40 calendar years;
- acres can be added (Golden Spike grew from about 1,500 to 2,140 acres, with about 1,000 more planned).
UIPA's 75% share: 25 years vs. 40 years
| Project area | UIPA 75%, 25 yrs (plan) | UIPA 75%, 40 yrs (estimate) | Local 25%, 25 yrs (plan) | Local 25%, 40 yrs (estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Weber (Weber County) | $360.8M | ~$577M | $120.3M | ~$192M |
| Golden Spike (Box Elder County) | $156.4M | ~$250M | $52.1M | ~$83M |
| Tooele Valley (Tooele County) | $51.6M | ~$83M | $17.2M | ~$28M |
| These three together | $568.8M | ~$910M | $189.6M | ~$303M |
How the money moves
Loans also need the Legislature's Executive Appropriations Committee
Lakeshore Learning: 60%
Stadler Rail: 10%
Map: places named at the hearing
Pins are approximate, placed at the town or described area, not the parcel. Copper pins: a claim about this place didn't match the record or left something out. Tap a pin for details.
People connected to the record
- Ben Hart: UIPA Executive Director; gave most of the presentation and answers. Also sits on EDCUtah's board.
- Ariane Gibson: UIPA Chief Financial Officer; presented and signs UIPA's loan letters to the Legislature.
- Rep. David Shallenberger: the House member who asked the questions. His name is not clearly heard on the Hive's recording; the committee's official video and captions confirm it.
- Rep. Larson: asked whether the West Weber wastewater facility could serve a data center; Hart said "potentially" and called it a "gray area."
- Rep. Fiefia: pointed out a copy-paste error on UIPA's one-pager.
- Sen. Jerry Stevenson: UIPA board member; made the board motion for the PCC Land loan and chaired Executive Appropriations when it first failed.
- Sen. Kirk Cullimore: voted no on the PCC Land loan, then moved to reconsider it.
- Abby Osborne: UIPA board chair.
- Chuck Akerlow: Zenith developer, Tooele Valley; said his project "would not be possible without the incentives and financing provided by the port authority."
- Ryan Starks: former UIPA vice chair; now runs EDCUtah, where UIPA is a paying investor.
What this hearing teaches
- Check spoken numbers against the agency's own press releases first. That's where both mismatches here showed up: public safety and A1 Lithium.
- Listen for definitions. "We haven't given a data center an incentive" depends on UIPA's own meaning of the word.
- Look up what each success cost. Delta, Stadler and A1 Lithium were named as wins; the loans and rebates behind them were not mentioned.
- Notice what isn't brought up. The PCC Land loan and the Zenith loan are public records UIPA sent the Legislature, and neither came up.
Open questions
Which committee was this, and who asked the questions? (Answered Oct. 27, 2026)
Neither is clearly said on the recording. The committee's agenda and minutes for Oct. 21, 2026 would settle it.
Answered: the committee's official video and captions confirm it was the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee on Oct. 21, 2026, and the questioner was Rep. David Shallenberger.
Were the FY2025 and FY2026 audits clean?
UIPA said so. The reports have not been read yet.
Was the Clean Ports grant restored?
UIPA's last post found says it was paused (Feb. 21, 2025).
Where are the 5% administrative and 3% wetland dollars spent?
The plans set the amounts but not where they're spent.
What is the Northwest Quadrant's projected tax differential?
Not yet in the Hive's files. It would show the statewide scale.
- How many of the 5,800 jobs and $5.9 billion are real? UIPA's one-page handout to the committee claims $5.9 billion in investment and 5,800 jobs, with a footnote saying some are "commitments pending." Asked how many are actual jobs and how many are promised, UIPA said "the largest portion" are commitments and gave no number. (The handout itself was not re-read for this page.)
- Were companies counted twice? Rep. Fiefia pointed out that Unitec Manufacturing and an energy company (spelled "Furbo Energy" in the transcript; likely Fervo Energy, not yet confirmed from the handout) are listed word for word under both the Skyline Corridor and Mineral Mountain project areas. The Hive's notes estimate that could mean about 250 jobs counted twice; that is an estimate from the transcript, unconfirmed. The audio dropped where UIPA answered, so whether it was addressed is unknown.
- The company list UIPA promised. Rep. Fiefia asked for a list of companies UIPA only helped connect, separate from those that got incentives. UIPA said "we will get you a list." Watch the committee's materials for its next meeting, Nov. 18, 2026.
- "Up to 75%" (possible 2027 bill). UIPA said it asked in a recent legislative session for "up to 75%" language on the tax split with local governments, for more flexibility. The bill was not named, and which session has not been confirmed.
- Iron County's base year (possible 2027 bill). UIPA said Iron County wants to choose the base year for its tax differential, instead of the year set in statute.
Questions to ask, and whom to ask
- Your state legislators: UIPA told the committee it gave about $5 million to public safety and that A1 Lithium is investing over $1 billion. UIPA's own releases say $2.5 million and $569 million. Which figures did the committee rely on?
- UIPA board: Do you count below-market infrastructure loans, like the $4.875 million loan to the Tooele data center's developer, when you say UIPA has given no incentives to data centers?
- UIPA board: Why does Tooele Valley's Recruitment Strategy name data centers, when UIPA's statement the same day says it is not recruiting them?
- Weber, Box Elder and Tooele county commissions and school boards: Will you support or oppose a 15-year extension when UIPA's board considers one, and will that be a public vote?
- Your state legislators: Should UIPA's water standard have a fixed limit again, after S.B. 225?
- State Auditor: Are UIPA's FY2025 and FY2026 audit reports posted, and were the 2023 findings fixed?
Updates since this was posted
- Oct. 21, 2026This page posted. An online search the same night found no news coverage of this hearing yet.
- Oct. 27, 2026Checked against the committee's official video and captions: the committee was the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, and the questioner was Rep. David Shallenberger. The air cargo figure is 92%, per the captions. Added: Rep. Larson asked whether the West Weber wastewater facility could serve a data center (Hart: "potentially," a "gray area"), and Rep. Fiefia pointed out a copy-paste error on UIPA's one-pager.
- Nov. 2, 2026Second pass, adding what the Hive's own Recordings 9 and 10 (machine transcript) show: Hart's fuller answers to Rep. Larson, the "rubber stamp" exchange and UIPA's description of its own process, the A1 Lithium "27,000% ROI" remark, the tax-exempt bonding answer, the "SB 206" statement, a note on how the 40-year extension was worded, and follow-ups on the jobs figures, the double-listed companies, the promised company list, "up to 75%" and Iron County's base year. No verdicts changed and nothing was removed.
New updates will be added here with their dates. Earlier entries are not changed.
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Behind this piece
Posted Oct. 21, 2026. Built from the Hive's own recording of the hearing, machine-transcribed, and checked claim by claim against UIPA's plans, releases and loan letters. The 40-year figures are the Hive's estimate and are labeled that way.
Connecting stories
- The Inland Port hearing, in plain words (UP 100.05)The short, plain-language companion to this page.
- EDCUtah (UP 100.03)Ben Hart sits on its board; UIPA is a paying investor.
- Ryan Starks (UP 100.08)Former UIPA vice chair; now runs EDCUtah.
- Chris Roybal (UP 200.01)Northern Utah Economic Alliance president; his file covers UIPA's West Weber project area adoption.
- The Layton Shuffle (UP 300.02)Sen. Jerry Stevenson, who moved the PCC Land loan at UIPA's board, is one of the seats in that diagram.
Sources
Sources — click to open (with links)
- The Weber County Hive, recordings of the Oct. 21, 2026 legislative committee hearing (Recordings 5–8), machine-transcribed
- Utah State Legislature, Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, Oct. 21, 2026, official video and captions (committee name, questioner, 92% air cargo figure, Larson and Fiefia exchanges)
- KSL, "Utah Supreme Court sides with inland port" (June 29, 2022)
- Utah League of Cities and Towns, letter on the 2018 inland port special session
- UIPA, "UIPA's Position on Data Centers" (June 25, 2026)
- Legislative Auditor General, "A Limited Review of the Utah Inland Port Authority," Report 2022-07
- FOX 13 on the 2022 audit (Sept. 20, 2022)
- Office of the State Auditor, news release on UIPA reports (Dec. 21, 2023)
- UIPA, response to the State Auditor's findings
- UIPA, Board Meetings & Agendas
- UIPA, partnership to add officers on Salt Lake City's west side (Apr. 28, 2026)
- UIPA, incentive for A1 Lithium, Castle Country Project Area (Sept. 9, 2026)
- Salt Lake Tribune, inland port buys the North Temple landfill (Feb. 14, 2025)
- UIPA, acquires North Temple landfill (Feb. 11, 2025)
- Utah Business, $112M Clean Ports grant (Nov. 4, 2024)
- UIPA, Clean Ports grant on pause (Feb. 21, 2025)
- KSL, inland port pledges $7.5M to Great Salt Lake buffer (July 15, 2026)
- UIPA, supports Stadler Rail expansion (Mar. 27, 2025)
- KSL, Delta cargo facility (Nov. 3, 2025)
- KSL, blocked crossings notification system (Mar. 30, 2025)
- UIPA, rail project to reduce west side crossing delays (May 21, 2026)
- UIPA loan letters to the Executive Appropriations Committee (Feb. 9, 2026) (read through a text pull)
- UIPA, Fairfield water loan (Jan. 13, 2026)
- Weber County, western Weber wastewater milestone (Apr. 28, 2026)
- West Weber Project Area Plan and Amendment #1, Appendix D budget summary (inlandportauthority.utah.gov)
- Golden Spike Project Area Plan and amendments, Appendix D budget (inlandportauthority.utah.gov)
- Tooele Valley Project Area Plan, Amendments #1 and #2; UIPA 2024 Annual Report; UIPA, "Who Qualifies for AIB Loans" (all in the Tooele Valley case file)
- UIPA board minutes (June 26, 2025) and Executive Appropriations Committee minutes (Sept. 15, 2025), PCC Land loan (in the Jerry Stevenson profile)
- S.B. 225 (2026), 3rd substitute (the version passed): Section 11-58-602, allowable uses of property tax differential, lines 465–549 (added Oct. 28, 2026)
- S.B. 225 (2026), all substitutes, and H.B. 507 (2026), le.utah.gov
- UIPA, "Legislative Updates Following 2026 Session" (Mar. 28, 2026)
- Added Nov. 2, 2026: The Weber County Hive, phone Recordings 9 and 10 of the Oct. 21, 2026 hearing, machine transcript (Larson exchange, "rubber stamp" exchange, jobs footnote, Fiefia's double-listing question, "up to 75%," Iron County base year, A1 Lithium remarks, tax-exempt bonding, "SB 206," parcel clock)
- Added Nov. 2, 2026: UIPA one-page handout to the Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee, Oct. 21, 2026 (as described on the recording; not re-read for this page)
Added Oct. 21, 2026, for the updates section:
- Online news search for coverage of the Oct. 21, 2026 hearing, Oct. 21, 2026: none found.
