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Public lands sale may return to ‘big, beautiful’ bill with Mike Lee amendment
After a controversial provision allowing the sale of public lands in Utah and Nevada was stripped from a massive spending package, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee hinted he may try to revive it in the Senate. Utah Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy initially proposed selling nearly 11,500 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in southwestern Utah to Washington and Beaver counties, the Washington County Water Conservancy District and St. George, in addition to 450,000 acres in Nevada. However, amid bipartisan opposition led by Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke — who had said that selling ...
