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B-164613 1 (1974-03-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafsh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OC A COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES y WASHINGTON.DC 25C... B-164613 March 27, 1974 /I/II(lfl )ll ll llllll fll llllllill The Honorable Charles A. Vea-a LM095940 House df Rpresentatlves Dear ki. Vanik: Your letter of March 6, 1974, requests our response to several questions concerning an agreement between the Secretary of the Interior wt ad officials of the State of Utah signed on February 22, 1974. As part of its Federal Prototype Oil Shale Leasing Program, the Department of the Interior is preparing to sell oil shale leases for two tracts of land in the State of Utah. Bids for the first Utah tract were opened on March 12, and bids on the second tract are scheduled to be opened on April 9. - These two tracts of land, among other tracts, are subject t indemnity selections by the State of Utah pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 851-852, which are now pending before the Interior Department. 43 U.S.C. 851-852 provides for selections by certain States of public lands in order to indemify such States for the loss of other specified public land sections origi- nally granted to them for school purposes upon their admission to the Union. N Utah's selections, including the two tracts here involved, ware sub- mitted to the Interior Department over a period of time from 1965 t6 1971. While the lands to be selected have been withdrawn from appropriation by past Executive orders, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized under section 7 of the Taylor Grazing Act, 43 U.S.C. 315f, to classify such lands for indemnity grants and to effect their transfer to the State. The Secretary has not yet acted upon Utah's selections. We understand that the Interior Department is presently considering aether the se- lections can or should be approved in view of the fact that the lands selected are considerably more valuable than the lost school sections upon which the State's Indemnity entitlements are based. The instant agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the State of Utah states in paragraphs (1) and (2) that the Department may -) L. c4 j: c/I5T-l

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