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Show State of Utah receives BLM Payments The State of Utah has received a check for $2,610,629.08 from the U. S. Department of the Interior's In-terior's Bureau of Land Management. According to Paul L. Howard, BLM state director for Utah, the check was the regular semiannual semi-annual payment for the state's share of. BLM mineral leasing receipts between July 1 and December 31, 1975. By provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, the state receives 37.5 percent of bonuses, royalties and rentals received from BLM-adminstered BLM-adminstered lands within the . state. This brings the total BLM mineral leasing payments to the state treasury for calendar year 1975 to more than five and a half million dollars. |