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Show Fpday, May 5, 2000 THE DAILY HKRALD, Hvww.HarkTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah Page A3 LOCAL Steele concerned about loss of minerals lands in the West Desert for 106,400 acres elsewhere in the state. If it receives Congressional and presidential approval, it will be the -largest land swap in U.S. Utah's history. James Congressman Hansen is expected to carry the legislation. The Bureau of Land Management will acquire 22,566 acres in Juab County and 13,589 acres By MARTA MURVOSH The Daily Herald A Juab NEPHI is commissioner County worried that a land swap between the state and federal government will ultiplace mineral mately deposits in his county permanently out of reach. Land will be traded in the Tintic Mineral Belt, which is rich in Beryllium, for federal land elsewhere, Robert in Tooele County. Commissioner The Utah School and Steele said. Institutional Trust Lands "I, think you have to have some study," Steele Administration will get said. "They have 19,946 acres and 27,766 it. We don't have a acres respectively in the what same counties. told have us. It's . Steele supports the idea they of trust lands trading tough to support someunusable land for undevellike that." thing Gov. Mike Leavitt was opable acres but he doesn't expected to unveil the "want the trades to hurt his details at 11:30 a.m. today constituents. The potential for "new of a plan to trade 107,400 acres of undevelopable jobs and increased tax revland owned by school trust enue may be lost if miner second- fast-tracke- al deposits are locked up in the wilderness debate in the West Desert, Steele said. That happened to rural counties in southern Utah when trust lands coal in ' ' the deposits Kaiparowits Plateau were traded in 1998 to the federal government, Steele said. ( Officials from the school Utah trust. Lands, of Office Governor's Planning and Budget and of Tintic; and In Tooele County, 6,880 acres of land north of the Tooele Army Depot South Facility, 8,993 acres of grazing land near St. John, and 11,893 acres Interior have been wrangling for about a year over the value of the acreage and mineral rights involved in the swap. Leavitt was expected to reveal more details today. Among other acreage, the school trust will gain: In Juab County, 5,693 acres near Brush Wellman mine about 50 miles northwest of Delta and 14,253 acres of grazing land south will gain: In Juab County, 7,681 acres in the Fish Springs ow "cTueTTWe-onlyTin- - Fire burns parts of two Orem homes By PAT OREM ed have a clue. We only know what they have told us. It's tough to support something like that" Robert Steele, Juab county commissioner ; could Jbe mined in the Mountains Cedar Wilderness Study Area and 5,761 acres in the Silver Island Mountains Wilderness Study Area north of Wendover. The federal government also will acquire land in Interstate 80. The trust lands also will acquire land in Beaver, Millard and Iron, Washington counties. Among other acreage, the federal government Box Elder, Beaver, Kane, Wilderness Study Area, west of the national wildlife refuge of the same name and 12,325 acres of land and 2,560 acres of land that can be mined in the Deep Creek Mountains Wilderness Study Area south of Wendover; and In Tooele County, 7,828 acres of land that Jni CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald fast-track- adjacent to existing trust lands west of Timpie Springs on both sides of the Department of the d "I think you have to have some study. it. AVe don't . They have Millard and Washington. counties. The lands being traded are worth between $20 million arid $22 million, said Brad Barber, deputy director Office of Planning and Budget. Once finalized, the trust lands administration can develop the land. The trust operates Jo make a profit which is held in trust by the Utah Treasury and the earnings are distributed to 12 beneficiaries. The Utah public school system is the largest beneficiary. There haven't been any projections done to determuch the land will be worth inJthefut Barber said. : The parcels will be evaluated, Barber said. A few might be sold, others developed and others might be held until anticipated changes in the market will make them more mine how profitable for GJLAJlJUjLlJlnJU , Two houses in the 300 block of Palisades Drive in Orem burned Wednesday night causing an estimated $9,500 in damages. Orem police Lt. Doug Edwards said the fire started at 8 p.m. in a field and is suspected to have been sparked by fireworks that children had been playing with, but no suspects have yet been identified, he said. "A neighbor in the area had reported seeing some children playing with firecrackers or other fireworks," Edwards said. The fire spread to one home near 337 S. 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