| Show j School Schoor Recreation Sites Available Through DIM Rule I f v Utah communities are reI re minded by bi It n. D D. Nielson Utah J. J state director tor with the US U.S. Bureau of ot Land Management of ot their opportunities to gain school and recreational sites through a recently announced t plan According to a new pricing schedule set up by Secretary of the Interior Stewart 1 L. L Udall local agen agencies Jes may purchase school and recreational sites for an acre or br lease tease them for 25 cents an acre per tear year Com Com- I t t o previously were re to pay up to 50 per cent nt of the appraised market for such lands Mr Nelson Nielson pointed out that the new pricing pric ing schedule is hi based on both the need to expand facilities and andon andon andon on the realization that a major block has been the Inability In ability of ot local agencies to fi finance finance tl fi- nance the acquisition of ot expensive expensive sive land I State and local governments may apply for tracts from the national land reserve by tiling filing applications for specific areas with ELM t offices In Utah the applications should hould be filed flied with the t BLitt State Land Office In Salt Lake City Local agencies buying or I leasing leas as' as asIng ing big public lands must agree to develop and manage the sites in accordance with an approved program of use which Includes comprehensive statements of need purposes objectives plan of development plan of operations operations operations opera opera- end and time schedules Mr MI Nielson said The law taw r requires th that t agencies buying or leasing public lands must agree to maintain them without Action and that the lands must forever be dedicated to the use for tor which purchase Is approved or they may revert to the f federal fed oral eral government |
