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Show BLM Director coming j for Utah visit i The new director of the Bureau of Land Management, Manage-ment, Frank Gregg, will be in Salt Lake City April 12th on his first visit to Utah since becoming director February 14th. According to Paul L. Howard, Utah BLM State Director, Gregg will meet with Utah Governor, Scott M. Matheson, BLM employees em-ployees in the area, representatives repre-sentatives of public land user groups end will hold a press conference. As BLM director, Gregg heads an agency that has the responsibility of managing man-aging nearly 450 million ncres of public land in the United States. Nearly 23 million acres of this public land are in Utah. He is the first director of the BLM to be appointed appoint-ed by the President subject sub-ject to confirmation by the Senate. Gregg, 52, a native of Denver, Colorado, has served for the past ten years as chairman of the New England River Basins Ba-sins Commission, a joint federal-state agency established to coordinate the federal and state natural resource programs m that region. Prior to his appoint,,,,,,,, us chairman of the New England Hiver Hush,, tomnussion by President Johnson in i7i (jngg Nerved from 1965 t0 iq,';7 as vice president of the Conservation Foundation natural resources policy study organization, and j1-from j1-from 1963 to 1965 as executive director of the -Citizens Committee for the Outdoor Recreation Resources Commission i Report. From 1961 to 1963 he was a staff assistant to f former Secretary of the s Interior Stewart L. Udall ; , and from 1957 to 1961 he was executive director of the Izank Walton League , of America. He began his career in 1951 as editor of : the Colorado Outdoor magazine for the Colorado ' Game and Fish Depart- 0; ment. ! Born December 15. 1925 in Denver, Gregg-, v, was graduated from the : , University of Colorado in , y 1949. He'is married to the ! former Virginia Ann ShP of Ironwood. Michigan' and has a son and l daughter, Scott 18. and s;.,m ir r. ;:1 |