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House passes resolution urging Congress to address public-lands shortfall for education funding
Summary
On Feb. 1, 2003, the Utah House passed HJR 14, the Action Plan for Public Lands and Education (APPLE), sponsored by Representative Steven Urquhart, asking Congress to consider remedies for revenue losses the state attributes to extensive federal land ownership in the West.
On Feb. 1, 2003, the Utah House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 14, sponsored by Representative Steven Urquhart, urging Congress to consider an Action Plan for Public Lands and Education (APPLE) to address what supporters described as a fiscal shortfall caused by federal ownership of Western lands.
Urquhart told the chamber that Western states receive substantially less in land-sale proceeds and related revenues because federal policy ended sales of many…
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