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Show McKay Tapped for Tod Inferior Commiffee Posf Congressman K.Gunn McKay of 1'iah has been named the third ranking member of the Interior Subcommittee on Appropriations, Ap-propriations, a seat which could have tremendous tre-mendous benefits for the interests of Utah. The Interior Subcommittee Subcom-mittee considers funding fund-ing for the Department of Interior, including the Bureaus of Land Management. Man-agement. Indian Affairs. Mines. .National Park Service, and also the The assignment was made by Chairman Geo! Mahon according to new-procedures new-procedures adopted by the Democratic Caucus. These procedures hot only provided the opportunity oppor-tunity for Mr. McKay's appointment, but were responsible for his advanced ad-vanced ranking on the committee. '"In the last Congress. I was able to cosponsor or sponsor legislation that created two new national parks in I'tah and expanded a third. I also was principal House sponsor of the legislation le-gislation creating the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. With this new subcommittee assignment I hope to be able to see that funds for developing these new Utah facilities are provided." pro-vided." he said. McKay now sits on Interior. Military Construction Con-struction and District of Columbia Appropriations Appropria-tions subcommittees. The I'tah Congressman Congress-man said his new assignment as-signment would be useful use-ful in supporting Forest Service appropriations, which have been steadily stead-ily reduced for-I'tah offices. of-fices. McKay said he felt his new assignment would provide a special opportunity to make the case for maintaining the Forest Service Regional Office in Ogden. |