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Show BLM To Cut Back Jobs Utah's Bureau of Land Management in May will cut back 330 positions in its Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) program because congress hasn't appropriated sufficient funds. The YACC program in BLM's Salt Lake District will be eliminated and drastic cuts will, be made in Moab, Richfield, and Cedar City districts, according to Paul L. Howard, Utah BLM director. The program will be cut from 40 staff and 400 enrollees to 10 staff and 100 enrollees. The remaining personnel will be distributed throughout the three districts. The YACC program provides employment for individuals between the ages of 16 and 23 for no longer than one year. Utah's YACC enrollees have been able to work on many constructive projects during the past year as well as gain some valuable work experience, said Howard. Projects completed by the enrollees included fence construction, range seeding, water modif-cation projects, camp construction and archaeological inventories. |