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Show "iWmi -v-,- -v -.- OtohTJOtTO-.-- : i U put mil 'uyp - Hansen introduces bi Monument poll shows opposition iO SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Most Utahns are opposed to creating a new national monument in southern Utah, and they believe President Clinton made the declaration for political reasons, a new public opinion survey shows. The copyright Deseret News poll, published Thursday, found 49 percent of the 606 people interviewed oppose the 1.7 million-acr- e Grand Staircase-Escaiant- e National Monument. Twenty-nin- e percent support it. The survey, conducted Wednesday night by Dan Jones and Associates, shows 68 percent believed election-yea- r politics were more motivation for Clinton to make the announcement earlier in the day at the Grand Canyon than were environmental concerns. The poll, which has a margin for error of 4 percent, also revealed that 61 percent thought the process by which Clinton could establish the monument, without congressional approval, was unfair. The president acted under a provision of the 1906 Antiquities Act, a law used by White House predecessors from Theodore Roosevelt on 66 times to designate seven of parks or monuments them in Utah. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Stiil smarting over President Clinton's designation of a massive new national monument in southern Utah, Rep. Jim Hansen introduced legislation on Thursday to change the Antiquities Act of 1906. Clinton used that act on Wednesday to designate 1.7 million acres of southern Utah's rugged and pristine land as the Grand Staircase-Escaiant- e National Monument. Hansen's bill would limit such monument designations by any chief executive to 5,000 ares or less. "I've had 25 states talk to me today, saying 'I want to be protected.' So rather than having all them run off and put a bill in, I said let's just do one for the entire United States. It's got tremendous bipartisan support," Hansen said. Hansen's was the only concrete action taken among a myriad explored by those angry with the president. Other opponents worried about the loss of an underground coal mine and a questionable swap of school trust lands talked of other options: congressional repeal of Clinr ton's action or a lawsuit to block Utah's population nation's youngest SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah's residents are getting older, but the Beehive State still boasts the youngest population in the nation overall, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. In 5995, Utah's median age was 26.8 years, up from 26.2 years noted in the 1990 census. However, Utah still was far younger than the second place state, Alaska, with a median age of 31.3 years, up from 29.3 years in 1990. Nationally, the agency reported that Americans were 34.3 years old in 1995, a increase from 1990's 32.8 years. "Yes, we're getting older," said Natalie Gochnour, head of the demographic section of the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget. "But that's true everywhere because the baby boomers are getting older." In the West, the median age of those living in Montana grew from 33.4 years in 1990 to 35.9 years in 1995 a 7.5 percent increase. In Colorado, it grew from 32.4 years to 34.6 years during the same period for a 6.8 percent increase. Dimmit it. Neither option showed much promise, and the congressional delegation was not exploring them. Even Hansen's bill would do nothing for Utah. It's expected to be acted on by the new Congress in January. Utah finds itself in the same position Alaska and Wyoming faced when they tried to wriggle out of monument designations and lost. After President Carter set aside 56 million acres in Alaska in 1978, that state ucIJed a provision to a lands bill allowing no similar action in Alaska without congressional authorization. nt SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Irritated legislators called on Utah State Tax Commission chairman Val Oveson to explain how $13 million was lost from revenues projected for 1997. Oveson blames the loss on "an innocent series of misunderstandings" that led the commission to misconstrue lawmakers' intent in a 1995 bill aimed at giving manufacturers better tax breaks. The commission, which writes laws all rules by which are put into effect, struggled with the language for six months but still missed the mark, he acknowledged Wednesday. "I'm a little bit upset that the Legislature was hoodwinked," said Sen. Robert Montgomery, Ogden, during discussion at a legislative meeting of the Revenue and Taxation Committee. Rep. Lamont Tyler, Lake, agreed. "If we made a mistake, maybe we should go and fix tax-relat- R-S- it." Some legislators believed the break would be an exemption on those only depreciable parts that must be replaced. As the law is currently written, though, all parts are exempt. And Wyoming, too, secured language in the Antiquities Act of 1950 assuring no new monuments there in that state without That approval. Congress' stemmed from Wyoming's lawsuit over President Franklin D. 'I've had 25 states talk to me today, saying 1 want to be protected.' So rather than having all them run off and monuA- ment. Second District Congressional candidate Ross Anderson, a Democrat, said the president's move allows citizens "to say we have indeed preserved and protected a giorious part of our planet for our children and later generations." Jim Bradley, the Democratic candidate for governor, said, "This is a good act and any downside that people can perceive can clearly be worked - 3am 1 CDQCaCdOP factory representatives will be in our West allev store on Friday & Saturday for our Grand Opening! Cose The put a bill in, said let's just do one for the entire United States. It's got tremendous bipartisan support." Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Ut- ah a national monument in the Jackson Hole area. Utah Republican legislators blasted the president's move. "I can't believe that a president would do this and never walk on one square inch," said House Speaker Mel Brown, Senate President Lane Beat-tiBountiful, said he was happy Clinton said there will be room to address grazing and school trust lands. "But the process is an embarrassment to the government of the United States," Beattie said. "It shows what the federal government thinks of the state of Utah and states' rights. Meanwhile, Democratic legislators and candidates for office continued to laud the president's ' move. And wilderness advocates said they will continue to seek e, Staircase-Escaiant- e Grand National Monument that Clinton created includes about 1.3 million acres of land that the Utah Wilderness Coalition has been trying to get designated as wilderness. That's an even more restrictive designation than a monument. of Larry Young, the coalition, said the group still wants to see that 1.3 million acres designated as wilderness within the monument, and the coalition will continue to press for 5.7 million acres total to be designated wilderness in southern Utah. "We see this (the new monument) as a major first step," Young said. The Wilderness Coalition pub- -' plans to use the three-yea- r phase Clinton talked of to press for wilderness within the monument Rep. 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