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Committee backs resolution encouraging MOU with BLM to speed federal permit reviews

Utah Senate Committee (floor/committee hearing) · January 22, 2026
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Summary

The committee favorably recommended a concurrent resolution urging the state to pursue a memorandum of understanding with the Bureau of Land Management to pre-vet and streamline federal permit applications for oil, gas and mining activity; the director of Utah’s Division of Oil, Gas and Mining described administrative assistance that would not assume federal primacy.

A Utah Senate committee voted to advance a concurrent resolution that would authorize state negotiators to pursue a memorandum of understanding with the Bureau of Land Management to pre-vet permit applications and streamline overlapping state…

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