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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-909
UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS
ADMINISTRATION EXCHANGE ACT OF 2023
DECEMBER 18, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3049]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3049) to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land
and State land in the State of Utah, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 3049 is to provide for the exchange of cer-
tain Federal land and State land in the State of Utah.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 3049 would ratify a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
to facilitate a series of land exchanges between the Department of
the Interior (DOI) and the State of Utah. In March of 2023, the
Secretary of the Interior, the Governor of the State of Utah, and
the Director of the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Ad-
ministration (SITLA) agreed to a land exchange between the fed-
eral government and SITLA through an MOU. The land exchange
will allow SITLA to acquire higher production land outside of the
Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) and release less produc-
tive land within the BENM.
SITLA manages its trust lands, which were granted to the
state when it entered the Union, to generate funding for K-12 pub-
lic schools through activities like energy and mineral production,
real estate, and grazing. The legislation would allow SITLA to gen-
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