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House approves wilderness-resolution wording after heated floor debate over 1.4 million-acre cap
Summary
After extensive debate between rural and urban representatives, the Utah House defeated a motion to remove a 1.4 million-acre reference from a wilderness-resolution and adopted House Concurrent Resolution 13 directing federal consideration of wilderness with several state conditions.
A lengthy, at-times contentious floor debate over House Concurrent Resolution 13 concluded with the House rejecting a substitute motion to delete a 1.4 million-acre figure and then approving the resolution as presented. The resolution reports findings of a legislative task force on wilderness study areas and urges that any federal designation respect state water rights, school trust land interests and existing rights.
Representative Adams, who presented the task-force findings, described the resolution’s background and said the task force…
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