Another bill would allow Park City to obtain federally owned tracts in its boundaries known as the White Acre and Gamble Oak parcels, totaling 108.5 acres. A federal study in 1975 declared them as surplus to federal needs, and the city wants to obtain them to preserve them for open space and recreation.

Another bill would allow Bountiful to exchange 1,600 acres it now owns (but which are within national forest boundaries) for federal acreage adjacent to the city, including a 220-acre parcel that is home of the Bountiful Lions Club gun range and the Davis aqueduct. City ownership would allow upgrades at the shooting range.

Finally, another bill would fix what the Utah delegation says was a surveying error involving a 25-acre parcel of BLM land used by the Turnabout Ranch, which hosts a rehabilitation program for troubled youths. They say the survey erroneously put the parcel within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. The bill would adjust the boundary and allow the ranch to buy the land to correct property trespass questions.

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