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State public‑lands office touts RS 2477 progress and presses for rollbacks of recent federal rules
Summary
Reg Johnson, director of Utah—s Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, told the appropriations subcommittee that PLIPCO has secured title to key historic roads, is litigating travel‑management rollbacks, and supports rescinding the Forest Service roadless rule to allow administrative timber management on certain forest lands.
Reg Johnson, director of Utah—s Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office (PLIPCO), told the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations subcommittee that the office has advanced state claims to historic roads on federal land and continues to press federal agencies for travel‑management changes.
Johnson said PLIPCO has been working for years on RS 2477 right‑of‑way claims and reported recent wins that include title for Hole In The Rock Road and House Rock Valley Road, noting the office has filmed the majority of candidate roads and has completed roughly 900 sworn depositions toward establishing title. He said the overall caseload covers about 12,000 roads on BLM lands, with…
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