The Wyoming Senate has passed a bill that would sell 1,405 acres of state-owned inholdings in Grand Teton National Park to the U.S. Department of the Interior for $107 million.
The bill now heads back to the House for consideration of an amendment, said Sen. Leland Christensen, R-Jackson, who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Ruth Ann Petroff, R-Jackson, and others.
The bill passed the Senate with 28 ayes and two nays, with Sen. R. Ray Peterson, R-Cowley, and Sen. Kit Jennings, R-Casper, voting against the bill. The amended portions of the bill mostly contain language echoing an agreement hammered out between the State Board of Land Commissioners and the Interior Department late last year.
One section would allow the state to consider other forms of payment: “The board of land commissioners may explore alternatives for payment other than cash, including acquisition of mineral rights, an increase in federal mineral royalties paid to the State of Wyoming and land exchanges for the lands conveyed,” the amendment says. “Any alternative method of payment, other than cash, shall require legislative approval.”
The bill now heads back to the House for consideration of an amendment, said Sen. Leland Christensen, R-Jackson, who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Ruth Ann Petroff, R-Jackson, and others.
The bill passed the Senate with 28 ayes and two nays, with Sen. R. Ray Peterson, R-Cowley, and Sen. Kit Jennings, R-Casper, voting against the bill. The amended portions of the bill mostly contain language echoing an agreement hammered out between the State Board of Land Commissioners and the Interior Department late last year.
One section would allow the state to consider other forms of payment: “The board of land commissioners may explore alternatives for payment other than cash, including acquisition of mineral rights, an increase in federal mineral royalties paid to the State of Wyoming and land exchanges for the lands conveyed,” the amendment says. “Any alternative method of payment, other than cash, shall require legislative approval.”
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