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House approves $4.5M severance‑tax allocation to defend state land‑use interests

Utah House of Representatives · March 5, 2012

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Summary

House Bill 482 directs $4.5 million in severance‑tax funding for the Constitutional Defense Council, the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, and the attorney general to support litigation and defenses related to federal land‑use actions; the House passed the bill 55–15 after debate over earmarks and appropriations.

Representative Ivory presented House Bill 482 to dedicate $4.5 million from severance taxes to fund litigation and defense of state interests related to federal land‑use and mineral access decisions. Ivory warned that diminishing mineral revenues and federal land withdrawals threatened the state’s…

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