Public lands transfer?

brocksw

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Someone have some insight on this?

Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue and millions of jobs | Environment | The Guardian

Here is the link to Congress.... Reference to public land is towards the bottom.
Text - H.Res.5 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Adopting rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress. | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

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It's basically a rule change that discounts the value of federal land to essentially zero. It was added to a broader set of rules, which had to be passed, but has no enforceable meaning. It's not good and a step in the wrong direction, IMO, but any transfer of land will ultimately have to go through a public congressional vote, then a senate vote, then be approved by the president. As of now, a stand alone bill to transfer any sizeable chunk of land would be DOA because I doubt it would make it through the senate and even a congressional vote would be difficult.

A stealthy amendment to a bigger bill, like the budget, would be the thing to worry about.
 
It's basically a rule change that discounts the value of federal land to essentially zero. It was added to a broader set of rules, which had to be passed, but has no enforceable meaning. It's not good and a step in the wrong direction, IMO, but any transfer of land will ultimately have to go through a public congressional vote, then a senate vote, then be approved by the president. As of now, a stand alone bill to transfer any sizeable chunk of land would be DOA because I doubt it would make it through the senate and even a congressional vote would be difficult.

A stealthy amendment to a bigger bill, like the budget, would be the thing to worry about.
Thank you

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Bill is sponsored by the Republican in Utah - Jason Chaffetz.

Wonder what the likelihood of this going through is....

Haven't found any statements made by zinke.
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