Utah is poised to receive 520 acres of prime federally-owned real estate near Utah Lake’s northwest shore, under a bill Rep. Mia Love is shepherding through Congress.
Her bill is a simple house-keeping measure needed to clear bureaucratic hurdles blocking a proposed land transfer envisioned in Utah’s 1894 enabling act, which granted the future state land to support civic-building institutions, the Republican lawmaker and former Saratoga Springs mayor said.
“This solution would satisfy both the state and federal government and help us keep the promises made to the state of Utah more than 123 years ago more importantly it would ultimately raise funds to benefit Utah’s students by allowing SITLA [School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration] to manage these lands for the benefit of students,” Love told a House committee recently.