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Calendar No. 540
115TH CONGRESS S REPORT
2d Session J SENATE1 115-312
CONFIRMING STATE LAND GRANTS FOR EDUCATION ACT
JULY 31, 2018-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2582]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 2582) to authorize the State of Utah to select
certain lands that are available for disposal under the Pony Ex-
press Resource Management Plan to be used for the support and
benefit of State institutions, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 2582 is to authorize the State of Utah to se-
lect certain lands that are available for disposal under the Pony
Express Resource Management Plan to be used for the support and
benefit of State institutions.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The 1894 Utah Enabling Act (28 Stat. 107) granted the State of
Utah the right to select public lands for the support and benefit of
state institutions, including an agricultural college (now Utah State
University), in addition to the more familiar school land grants.
Lands granted to Utah under this Act are managed by the Utah
School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA),
which is an independent state agency that manages Utah's 3.4 mil-
lion acres of trust lands.
According to SITLA, several thousand acres of unfulfilled selec-
tion rights are currently outstanding. In 1998, SITLA filed an ap-
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