SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A Utah lawmaker says Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is asking state and local leaders to propose new, smaller boundaries for two national monuments under review by the Trump administration.
Republican Rep. Mike Noel of Kanab said Tuesday that the Interior Department wants Utah to draft proposed maps of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended shrinking the newly created Bears Ears earlier this month. Utah leaders had opposed the monument created by President Barack Obama following a push from conservationists and Native American tribes.
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Noel says commissioners in his county near Grand Staircase-Escalante have already submitted a map of changes they’d like to see to that monument created by President Bill Clinton, but federal officials want to see a single, unified proposal from all state leaders.
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