Show Your Man ManIn ManIn ManIn In Washington By US U.S. Senator Orrin G. G Hatch ELM Handcuff Utah In the closing moments of the Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress last year a bill was passed which has extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary effect on the citizens of the state of Utah The measure is entitled entitled entitled en en- titled the Federal Land Policy and Management Act popularly referred to toas toas toas as the Organic Act and directly applies t to nearly 60 of the lands within the boundaries of the Beehive State which are controlled by the Federal Government Basically this Act gives the Bureau of Land Management legitimacy as asa asa asa a federal land holding agency n something the DIM bureaucrats have ha been st seeking eking from the time the agency was organized A former lormer governor of Utah said on several occasions occasions oc oc- oc- oc The B Bureau urea u of Land Management has more control over the lives of the people of our state than I do lie He was speaking speaking speak speak- ing of regulatory control over as much as 90 of the lands in some of 01 Utah's 29 counties The Organic Act became law after the Governors Governor's remarks and gives even more authority to the bureaucracy There are many shortcomings in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act but the major flaw is the lack of input from Irom or regard for the people who derive their livelihood from the public lands The Act authorized the publishing of 01 rules forthe forthe for forthe the use of 01 lands which are now called Surface Surface Surface Sur Sur- face Mining Regulations These regulations were first established this year without the least bit of in input input input in- in put from the public and it took 15 United States Senators in a joint letter to the Secretary of Interior just to obtain public hearings hearings hearings hear hear- ings on the regulations n regulations that were drafted pursuant to the law enacted just a few months earlier by that same Congress Some concerned say the only answer to the B LM Organic Act is its repeal They may be right But until enough support is generated in the Congress to take such action a way must be developed to live with this monstrosity Meanwhile officials from the BLAI are describing describing ing their role under the act as administrators of lands that must be held in inthe inthe inthe the public trust in perpetuity In addition they have said These lands will be classed as de facto lacto wilderness areas' areas until until until un un- til new rules to govern 1 lands are developed It is this kind of language this obvious disregard for the economy and well being of Utah that causes dt deep ep emotional concern and reaction by bythe bythe bythe the citizens of 01 Utah Only time will tell what lies inthe in inthe inthe the future for Utah as a result of 01 the Federal Land Policy and Management Act its regulations and enforcement enforcement en en- enforcement by the |