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