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Calendar No. 305
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-153
UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS
ADMINISTRATION EXCHANGE ACT OF 2023
JANUARY 9, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 1405]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1405) to provide for the exchange of certain
Federal land and State land in the State of Utah, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 1405 is to provide for the exchange of certain
Federal land and State land in the State of Utah.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
On December 28, 2016, President Obama designated Bears Ears
National Monument comprising approximately 1.3 million acres of
public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in
southeast Utah (Proclamation 9558). On December 4, 2017, Presi-
dent Trump issued a proclamation reducing the size of the monu-
ment to just under 201,400 acres (Proclamation 9681). On October
8, President Biden issued a proclamation restoring the monument
to its original boundaries and retaining an additional 11,200 acres
added by President Trump (Proclamation 10285).
The national monument encompasses the homelands of area In-
dian Tribes, including the Navajo, Hopi, Ute, and Zuni Pueblo.
Some of these Tribes describe a pair of prominent rock
outcroppings as Bears Ears in their language. The proclamation
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