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Committee Approves National Park BillsWASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Interior Committee Wednesday unanimously approved three bills creating Arches and Capitol Reef national parks and expanding the existing Canyon-lands National Park.Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, R-Utah, a committee member, said the legislation will reach the floor of the House following the August Congressional recess.The three bills approved by the committee would reduce the acreages of both the existing Arches and Capitol Reef national monuments, which were expanded under executive order by President Johnson in 1969.The bills, giving national park status to the two national monuments, would reduce Arches by 10,000 acres to 73,150 acres, and drop 12,500 acres from Capitol Reef to 241,600 acres.However, about 80,00$ acres would be added to Canyonlands under the legislation, for a total park area of 337,358 acres.The committee adopted several amendments to the bills, which were previously approved by the subcommittee on parks and recreation.Lloyd said, “The most significant is language providng for a road study In all three areas by the Interior Department, in consultation with the state andlocal governments in the park area.Other amendments approved included a provision to allow grazing permittees in Arches and Capitol Reef a one 10-year extension on their permits following present expiration.The committee also approved amendments dealing with authority of the Interior Secretary to regulate use of stock driveways and the granting of easements and rights-of-way for utility lines across Capitol Reef only.An additiona change approved by the committee calls for a report on wilderness designation in three years for all three park areas, as was an amendment placing authorizattori ceilings for development and land acquisl-Utah's lowest Food Prices Prices EHcctweThMri, SitRUMP ROASTBlue RibbonCenter / TROUND STEAKBlue RibbonTender........
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Provo Daily Herald
Provo, Utah, US
Thu, Jul 29, 1971
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