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Show f ' ' ' i ' " 7 F , Yvfi A-(7,: . 0. -.1 ? ' .j V jjep. Laurence J. Burton, who was making his first campaign trip into Southeastern- Utah last Saturday as a candidate for the United States Sen- . late, took time out to discuss the best 1 'methods of. approaching the funding Commission Mem bar Burton Snys Land Report Will Aid Ufoh f .. Recommendations of the lic Land Law Review Remission, if enacted into w, will prove of major ben-it ben-it to Utah', Rep. Laurence ,1 Burton, R-Utah, said in loab Saturday , Burton, a member of the man Commission, said the eatest benefit could come am a proposal to make Ijments in lieu of taxes to ates and counties contain- public land areas. i The Utah Congressman at-nded at-nded White House ceremon-! ceremon-! last week during which e voluminous final report, Jminating more than five ars of intensive study, was Rented to President Rich-p Rich-p M. Nixon. J'lt must be emphasized Jat the mors than 289 pro- . sals contained in this reft re-ft are only recommenda- . us and congressional ac- is necessary for them to come law," Burton noted, ut the report contains a at many features which U make it of vital impor-Ke impor-Ke to the State of Utah." 'For example, the federal vernment owns some 6,3 r cent of the land of Utah m which the State and lo-I lo-I governments receive no uperty taxes," Burton said. Commission , recom-I recom-I inds that., since this land k owned by all the .people of f P nation, payments in lieu i taxes shouM be made as J limited share of revenues." f p noted that ithese pay-' pay-' Ns would amount to be-Joai be-Joai 13 per cent and 43 rcont of the revenue avail- '1 'Hie land were subject taxaition, but added: "Just Jnk hw much money even amounts could bring the state for us for 3xls a"d other badly need Sovernment programs." .Jl'h recommendation will be of major im-l3nx im-l3nx to many Utahns. n said, deals with graz-! graz-! fees. l'r the proposals of v J wmuriission, the graz-V graz-V ' would be based on "me of the land used. i 2 'and is net of the best ' ,for grazing, the fees be lower. If it is ex-"C,!tKland. ex-"C,!tKland. ttie fee would 4" a hish- -on, the Utah Con- said, grazing per-,h,n per-,h,n . '""ssume greater A)? l .'he holder and, if PV 't sh0uid be rcvok-yy rcvok-yy reason, renumer-Jli. renumer-Jli. T d bo made to the ; assures much grcait-J7nly grcait-J7nly of tenure than ;:npernt iaw-" Bur- J idedjn the report is of the Pack Creek project in Moab . with Director Don Hoffman, of the-Economic the-Economic Development Committee, and with other members of the committee, com-mittee, at the SunDowner Restaurant. a section dealing with specific spe-cific recommendations for development of oil shale deposits de-posits in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. These call for leases sufficiently suf-ficiently large (to permit amortization am-ortization of investments needed for commercial development, de-velopment, give weight to in-(d):iistry in-(d):iistry suggestions relating to 'location and size of tracts, duration of leases and size of plant and provides mora attractive terms for leasing and royalty payments than under plans previously- offered, of-fered, he said. One of the major problems prob-lems in the field of oil shale development, he said, is imposition impo-sition of the necessary environmental en-vironmental controls to assure as-sure both development and the conservation of as much cf the natural beauty of the land as possible. "I do not anticipate any legislative action on the rec-amymendfatioins rec-amymendfatioins contained in the report until next year, when the 92nd Congress convenes," con-venes," Burton said. "The period1 between now and next January will provide an opportunity for full citizen citi-zen review of .the Commission Commis-sion proposals." He added that he hopes to be able to hold a series of conference's with state and county leaders, interested conservation! groups, cattlemen, cattle-men, miners and others in-teresited in-teresited in aspects of the report re-port "sometime this summer". sum-mer". The massive report contains con-tains recommendations in the areas of mines and minerals, administrative policies, planning, plan-ning, environment, timber, fish and wildlife, outdoor recreation, water rights, agriculture ag-riculture and many others, Burton concluded. |