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Show Emery County Progress Castle Dale Utah Tuesday April 15 2003 3A RS-247- 7 Continued from PAGE 1A. This action was taken'in federal court asking to quiet title to re-sol- disputes. The state has been preparing for litigation the last three years and has put 100.000 person hours and SI million to collect data and put it into a form vv hich could be used in court to demonstrate with clarity that the road existed before 1970 ThelSOO are significant, some months ago we were advancing to the department of the interior the process of lit ipating roads indi idually , this w as epensi e and time consuming and we feel it is in the best interest of the federal govright-of-wa- ernment and the state in rev g roads w here there is evidence of the existence of that road prior to 1970 and to resolve these conflicts w ith negotiation not litigation "The department of the interior saw the virtue of that and we set out to develop a process vt here the state prepares an application for the federal agency involved to issue a recordable disclaimer of interest to the state vv here it has been demonstrated the road existed before 1970. Today we signed a MOL hich lay s out the process that each ol the roads be compared touchstones." said Gov ievv-in- undis-putab- le vv 1970. Roads which will not be claimed at this time include roads in National Parks, wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, fish and wildlife refuges. Those roads being claimed will include roads traveled by normal v chides, not heel driv e trails but those accessible v chicles. Roads vv ill be accepted as is without expan4-- sion Gov Leavitt expects that from here in a fairly short time frame the BLM will begin granting these recordable disclaimers The counties and state will submit evidence to the BLM and the BLM will open the decision to a public process vv here comments will be accepted from groups or individuals on specific roads Gov. Leavitt pointed out that any decisions made do not prejudice any future right for a party to claim or disclaim a road not settled by this process. The counties will make the decision on w hich roads to present and they will be acted upon in an open way not by litigation vv hich is a closed process. The gov ernor believ es the new process will take the cost burden of litigation off the state, federal government and the counties and put it on the env ironmental community if they choose to litigate these roads The governor believes the authority behind this MOL is solid The state will pursue the roads that make up a transportation plan for the state. The federal agencies also vv ant the roads defined. This MOL only includes the BLM no such agreement exists at this time with the forest sen ice RS-247- Leav itt The governor went on to explain the touchstones, number one- Is there clear evidence that the road vv as in existence before 7 North Emery Continued from PAGE 1 A. The board acted on many other items during the meeting 1 he first was a public hearing concerning the LIB application No representative from the public vv as present vv ith questions or comments, so the public hearing was closed The board also approved a connection application on South ITat Laura Fillmore presented the board a sample of a new letter and suggested that this be the model adopted for NFWLSSDs proposal to send new sletters Randy Bell ques resolution of the throughout the Swell. A RS-247- roads issue moved closer to reality this past week Many such 7 Leavitt also pointed out that this new process could of been used in a situation like that ith the Burr Trail vv here it took a decade of time and SI million in this process when you can prove a road exists up to the S boundary Once a prece- Gov. to resolve. The gov ernor expects lists to be submitted to the BLM within a relatively short amount of time. Wes Curtis commented that Emery County has a good deal of data put together already which should aid them in submitting their list of roads "This doesn't hurt the chances lor claiming roads in the WS s at a future time. In fact it will aid ' he burden ill be on the ironnientalists u vv ill be their responsibility to say. We don think theev idenee issubst.mluJ that should be a road ' in sure thcenviionmentul vv env I hesearen trails hut legitimate roads We aren l out grading up a bunch ol roads and doing upgrades M that point something switched m their thinking and (hey laid a clearer picture I p until then they were not receptive hey teel much better about things now Ihe governor deserves the lion s share of the credit )nce th.it distmc- - 1 tioned the board about the possibility of selling the Ditch case about ' roads exist 7 Photo by Mark H Williams lion was nude, the documentation was m place to make the going to court lie explained to them the kinds ol roads we are claiming and vv hat we re not They were contused as to what types of roads we re talking dence has been established the BLM will be hard pressed to turn down those requests It would he logical to continue the road through WS s and not stop at the border "T he governor is not tooling his ow n horn but. he demanded a meeting with Gale Norton and her stalf and he went hack to Washington vv ith photos and a data base and made Ins case. le told them we arc hard pressed to do something now or we're vv RS-247- t I community will be active to con- tain and curtail hat's happened here It s a huge issue, but we u c on solid ground legally lie signing ol this MOl has made this a historic day and we re dated ' onimcnlcd Curvv I tis ( Witch Since the district does not utilize the machine any more, it was suggested to have it ap- HOME REFINANCE LOAN praised and ready it for sale. Several items of incorrect billing or inquiry came before the board These items are not in their jurisdiction and Fillmore vv as instructed w here to direct the questions. The board also approved and accepted the minutes from the March (i meeting and paid the f AUTO f LOAN GOLD MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT GOLD INTEREST CHECKING bills. The next meeting for the NEWl'SSD is May 1 at 7 p m. GOLD ACCOUNT Star Theatre .163 North Main, Huntington, Utah 84528 T :ri v (435) 687-STA- j (7827) R www.startheatre.us t3-- Jungle Book 2 $4.00 Adults 12 and over $2.00 Children 1 years $2.00 Seniors 62 and older Popcorn, Pizza, Pretzels, Corn-dog- s & Popcorn Hot-dog- s, Chicken, Drinks & Candy Wednesday-Frida- x J . W -- kit . ", c 1 s A.l -- - J 7:00 & K0AL"DaII00T9.00 i L fit toft ' Starts Fndaw April 18th - .. 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