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Show Moss Asks for Delay On Grazing Fee Hike WASHINGTON, D. C Senator Frank E. Moss D-Utah, D-Utah, has lasked Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton to postpone proposed pro-posed grazLug fee increas. es on public lands until Congress luis had time to act on the' recommendations recommenda-tions of the Public Land Law Review Commission. In a letter to Secretary Morton, Senator Moss noted not-ed that Senator McGee and he are sponsoring legislation which would amend the Tayljor Grazing Graz-ing Act. The new bill would insure that the cost of obtaining grazing per mits would be included in the calculation of the fair market value of grazing fees. "Most livestock operators operat-ors agree that they should pay a fair and reasonable fee for grazing rights or other uses of our public lands," Senator Moss said. "They do feel, however, and with justification, that any system or procedure proce-dure which eliminates one of their principal cost factors fac-tors (obtaining grazing permits) cannot result in a fair or equitable determination deter-mination of those fees." Senator Moss pointed out that the PLLRC report states that public grazing lands are often crucial to individual ranch operators, operat-ors, and without their use many ranches would be forced out of business. "In these times of economic ec-onomic recession, it is contingent upon the government gov-ernment to aid the econ-. omy, not to depress it further," fur-ther," Senator Moss wrote to the Secretary. |