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UDOT letter prompts NRCS deadline that could reallocate conservation funds, Wasatch Open Lands Board hears
Summary
At its Aug. 12 meeting the Wasatch County Open Lands Board discussed a May 24 UDOT letter to the NRCS that members say may prompt NRCS to withdraw funding for local conservation easements unless the county provides clarifying information by NRCS's August 8 deadline.
The Wasatch County Open Lands Board on Aug. 12 spent its meeting discussing a UDOT letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) that board members said could endanger federal funding for local conservation easements.
Board member Heidi Franco opened the meeting and said staff would share the letter and routing map the board had received. Dr. Steve Stevens told the board that "NRCS gave us a date of August 8. If we can give them an answer on Gertrude by August 8, they're gonna take the money back and give it to someone else." Members said an NRCS reply has not yet been received and that an NRCS reallocation could move the funds elsewhere if the application appears uncertain.
The letter, dated May 24, outlines…
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