Lawmakers Undeterred by Utah Land Deal Probe
Three investigations into how the Interior Department appraises the government’s vast real estate holdings are not deterring efforts in Congress to complete a federal-state land swap in Utah totaling nearly a quarter-million acres.
The House passed legislation by a voice vote that would seal the deal, despite current inquiries by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the Interior Department and Interior’s inspector general.
The deal would exchange 137,166 acres of federal land for 108,264 acres of state-owned land, 95% of it located in central Utah’s San Rafael Swell.
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