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Advisory council asks county attorney to draft resolution limiting national-monument designations: proposed 640-acre threshold and local consent
Summary
The council recommended the county request congressional approval for new or expanded national monuments above a proposed 640-acre threshold and to require consent of affected local governments; members asked the county attorney to draft language for commissioners to consider.
Members of the Emery County Public Lands Council on Jan. 25 recommended that the county attorney draft a resolution urging limits on presidential monument designations and seeking congressional approval for larger designations.
The committee discussed two competing approaches: a broad repeal-style resolution (previously circulated in other counties) and a narrower approach that would ask Congress to limit designations above a defined acreage threshold and require…
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