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Washington, D.C. – Today, H.R. 251, the South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act, legislation sponsored by Congressman Jason Chaffetz, passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 404 - 0. This bill would clarify ownership of the South Valley Electric Service District’s (SESD) electric distribution system. Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a transfer of 100 acres of land from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to the city of Fruit Heights in Davis County. Co-sponsored by Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), the Fruit Heights Land Conveyance Act, H.R. 993, is Stewart’s first piece of legislation to pass the House. The transferred land will be used by the city of Fruit Heights for a much needed expansion of the Kaysville cemetery. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers released the following statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to delist the gray wolf from the endangered species list. Read more »

Washington, D.C.-- Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement after the announcement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act: Read more »

WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis (WY) joined forces with House Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (CA), Representative Scott Tipton (CO), and other Republican Members of the Water and Power Subcommittee in a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell regarding the National Blueways Order, which claims the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to designate entire river watersheds as “National Blueways.” Read more »

Washington, D.C. (June 7, 2013) – Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced their proposal to remove the gray wolf from the list of threatened and endangered species. This proposal would leave future management and conservation efforts to states for all gray wolf populations in the lower 48 states with the exception of the southwestern Mexican gray wolf. This announcement comes after the delisting of wolves in the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain States earlier this year. Read more »

WASHINGTON – During a House Natural Resources Committee hearing today, Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) stressed that localized preservation efforts, that take into account the unique topography and ecology of the regions in which a species lives, are far more effective than federal efforts that implement blanket approaches with disregard for local conditions and tie up needed recovery resources with endless litigation. Read more »

MESA—Today, Representative Matt Salmon (AZ-05) released the following statement in response to the inquiry from U.S. Representative Ed Whitfield (KY-1), Chairman of the Congressional Subcommittee on Energy and Power, to Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking more information about EPA’s proposed rule regarding the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and 15 of his colleagues asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to thoroughly assess the impact of its proposed Critical Habitat Designation for loggerhead sea turtles, which it issued on March 25, 2013, under the Endangered Species Act. In a letter to Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, the bipartisan group expressed concern over the proposal to designate approximately 740 miles of shoreline, including 96 miles in North Carolina, as critical habitat for loggerhead turtles. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Daines today condemned the Bureau of Land Management’s refusal to extend comment periods for proposed Billings and Pompeys Pillar, Miles City, and Hi-Line Resource Management Plans (RMPs). Daines noted that the length of the comment periods, which end in June, is insufficient, given that the current plans fail to take into account sufficient input from area residents. Read more »