GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (
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) — A revision to President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill mandating the sale of millions of acres of public land was deemed ineligible to be included by the Senate parliamentarian.
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Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, says this is because of the Byrd Rule, which says provisions in reconciliation bills must be focused on revenue and spending, not policy.
“In the case of public lands here, it meant that the amount of money that might be raised from selling off these public lands would not be enough to actually make a difference in a spending bill. And that makes sense. Most national public lands, the sale value at the market values, it would be a few thousand acres at best,” Weiss says.
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
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Monday he would be making changes to the provision to try to ensure its inclusion in the bill — including removing Forest Service land and reducing eligible BLM land to only land within five miles of population centers — but Weiss says he isn’t sure those changes will be enough.
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“I don’t see a path to that based on what Senator Lee said. He said that he was going to remove Forest Service lands from his provisions. So that would seem to make it even harder to raise revenue. The only way I could see any sort of provision making it back in is if Senator Lee attached, say, minimum sale values of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars an acre, in which case, that really gives away the game that this is not at all about affordable housing. This is just about trophy homes and gated communities.”
Weiss says he doesn’t think any changes will be enough to stop the provision from negatively impacting those who want to access the lands.
“These are the lands that everyone [relies] on for recreation, for hunting, for fishing, for camping. Everything you can’t do inside a national park. That’s what we have our BLM lands for, for the multiple use, for the grazing, for oil and gas drilling and mining… If you take that away, once you take away those lands and build houses on them, that access is gone forever,” Weiss says.
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