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Show transferred. In such cases, the state was allowed to selact other lands "in lieu" of thos? fcr which title was not vested. The past 10 fiscal years. 293,-257 293,-257 acres have been transferred from federal to state ownership. owner-ship. Of the 227,253 acres remaining remain-ing to be selected by Utah, the state has made application for) 187,299 acres. Of the state's pending applications, 157.257 acres are within the oil shale withdrawal area of northeast Utah. FEDERAL GOVT. TO TRANSFER LAND The federal government has transferred title to the State of Utah fcr more than 5.5 million mil-lion acres of land under the Utah Statehood Act of 1894, Robert D. Nielsen, Bureau of I and Management state director direc-tor for Utah, announced recently. re-cently. He said that only some 227,-000 227,-000 acres of federal lands remain re-main to be selected for state ownership to fulfill provisions of the act. To assist the state, the BLM has identified more than one million acres of pub-lih pub-lih lands that are available for the states selection. Mr. Nielson noted that the Sfatehocd Act provided that Utah would receive title to lour sections of land in each township within the state. These were Sections 2, 16, 32 and 36. The act provided that this land would be used by the state for the -support of public schools. However, before title could be passed to the state, the land had to be surveyed, Mr. Nielson Niel-son explained. In some cases, the federal government made withdrawals for defense or for other purposes before the lands! could be surveyed and title! |