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Show Limiting state owned land . . . i i ivately owned land is at a minimum in some part of the state. This is especially especial-ly true in Daggett County. Only 8.2 percent per-cent of the land in Daggett County is privately owned. A bill that would have limited state purchases of land failed in the recent legislative session. The bill came in response to some county officials claiming their tax base was being depleted to where there was nothing left to run the county. Several years ago the federal government govern-ment stated their own policy very similar to the Utah bill which failed in the Senate, and thus never reached the House of Representatives. The federal government has not totally total-ly lived up to its commitment, according to Jerry Taylor, county commissioner for Daggett County. He said that in 1981 the federal government purchased 3700 acres of privately owned land, without selling any of its holding. That purchase, according to Taylor, cut privately owned own-ed land in Daggett County from 8.7 percent per-cent to the present 8.2 percent. |
