Show r Sen Sege Bennett Seeks to Rescind New Grazing Grazin Fee Schedule Sen Wallace F P. P Bennett Dennett last week weck urged the Senate Interior Interior Inter Inter- Subcommittee on Public Lands Landa to initiate action to rescind rescind re reo a new schedule of grazing graz graze ing log fees on Forest Sen Service ice and Bureau of Land Management lands THE UTAHN said Slid the fees will Increase over the next ten years yeats by an average per percent percent percent cent on Forest Service land and per cent on ELM land They can only speed up the rate at which ranchers leave the industry as ranchers already already al ale al- al ready are faced with agricultural agricultural agricultural tural prices failing falling to keep up with inflationary trends Sen Bennett in testimony before the Subcommittee continued continued continued con con- The Increased graz graz- ing fees would result In an annual annual annual an an- nual net income loss to Utah ranchers of according to a Utah State University study In addition since in essence essence es es- sence grazing permits are arl capital cap cap- ital assets the Utah ranchers' ranchers capital losses would be about 33 m million ADDED TO all this is the estimated 17 m million in annual Income lost in do the secondary secondary sec sec- ec sectors of the economy and the possible negative effect effect ef ef- on the county and state tax base for the areas in question ques ques- tion The Utah lawmaker said Utah's ranchers graze about cattle and sheep on Forest Service and LM lands However if these grazing fee Increases are allowed to stand unmodified this can can only result in a decline in the ranching industry and an Increased increased increased in In- creased migration from our rural communities to tG our al already already already al- al ready overburdened cities Sen Bennett said THESE FEE schedules which were another of the Johnson Administrations Administration's last last- minute legacies to the American Amer Amer- v ican dean people should be rescinded rescind rescind- ed cd pending the results of a public land fee study now underway underway underway un un- derway by the Public Land Law Review Commission he a said aid t The commissions commission's study results re re- re- re suits arc are to be made available available avail avail- able by June 30 1970 |