House votes to give rural roads fight $1M boost

Published: Monday, March 5 2012 3:47 p.m. MST

SALT LAKE CITY — A fund for fighting the federal government over control of thousands of roads on public lands could get a $1 million boost.

The Utah House voted unanimously Monday to transfer the money into the state's Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office. Utah recently declared intent to file a federal lawsuit over access to 19,000 rural roads known as RS2477 roads.

"We feel like we're going to win these cases," said Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, sponsor of HB467. "I promise these funds will be well spent."

Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake, said he's concerned about the state "getting sucked into a trap that's going to be extraordinarily expensive" without taking stock of what it's getting into.

— Dennis Romboy Twitter: dennisromboy

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Sandy, UT

It's good to know that we have $4,000,000 to fight the feds in our budget. I didn't know fighting for a dirt trail was the best expenditure of our valuable funds.

For a group that abhors spending any money, they are sure free with our More..

4:13 p.m. March 5, 2012
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Dennis Romboy is a reporter for Deseret News where for the past 20 years he has covered a variety of beats including state and local government, human services and the 2002 Olympics. He spent six years as a special more ..

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