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Senator Bennett joins park rangers at Arches National Park during his recent visit to Southern Utah. | ||
Bennett on the Record
Press Releases
Speeches
Floor Statements
Other Speeches
Highlights of Utah Natural Resources and Agriculture Projects Secured by Senator Bennett:
Fiscal Years 2001-2004 (FY01-04)
| Interior | |||
| $6.9 million | – | Forest Legacy Project, Iron, Sevier and Summit counties (FY02-FY04) | |
| $6.1 million | – | Arches National Park Visitor Center (FY01- FY03) | |
| $6 million | – | Development of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail (FY01-FY04) | |
| $4.6 million | – | Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge water management structures and new visitor center (FY01, FY02, FY04) | |
| $4.17 million | – | High Uintas, Summit County, land acquisition (FY03) | |
| $1.2 million | – | State of Utah wilderness mapping initiative (FY01-FY03) | |
| $1.2 million | – | Sleeping Rainbow Ranch, a partnership project between Utah Valley State College and Capitol Reef National Park. (FY03-FY04) | |
| $1 million | – | To address BLM backlog of oil and gas permits in Utah (FY02) | |
| $860,000 | – | Bryce Canyon National Park renovation and expansion of picnic and restroom facilities (FY04) | |
| $728,000 | – | Virgin River Resource Recovery and Management Plan (FY03) | |
| $500,000 | – | for the acquisition of the Virgin River Dinosaur Footprint Preserve (FY02) | |
| $300,000 | – | USU Forest Landowner Education Program (FY04) | |
| $291,300 | – | USU forest landowner education program on private lands (FY03) | |
| $291,300 | – | Wasatch Canyons Water Quality Initiative (FY03) | |
| $94.9 million | – | Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement (FY01-FY04) | |
| $23.4 million | – | Shivwits Water Rights Settlement (FY02-FY03) | |
| Energy and Water | |||
| $114.2 million | – | To carry out provisions of the Central Utah Project Completion Act (FY02-FY04) | |
| $18.1 million | – | Utah Reclamation and Mitigation Commission Account (FY02-FY04) | |
| $10.5 million | – | Moab Atlas Tailing clean up (FY02-FY04) | |
| $1.5 million | – | West Jordan Water Reuse Project (FY02) | |
| $985,000 | – | Park City and Snyderville Basin water delivery feasibility study (FY04) | |
| $485,000 | – | Park City Water Supply Project (FY03) | |
| $347,100 | – | Navajo Sandstone Aquifer Recharge Study (FY02-FY03) | |
| $250,000 | – | To address the high levels of selenium in Stewart Lake, Uintah County (FY04) | |
| Agriculture | |||
| $8.9 million | – | Utah State University Agriculture Research Funding - $6.1 million – FY04 - $2 million – FY03 - $884,000 – FY02 |
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| $8.1 million | – | USDA Poisonous Plant Lab in Logan (FY02-FY04) | |
| $1.9 million | – | Mormon cricket and grasshopper control (FY02-FY04) - Additional $6.6 million secured in the FY03 Emergency Supplemental |
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| $1.8 million | – | Dry Gulch, Martin Lateral, Muddy Creek, and Coal Creek flood control and erosion protection for the communities of Roosevelt, Cedar City, and Kanab. (FY04) | |
| $1.4 million | – | Neff’s Grove/Dry Creek Restoration Project in Sandy City (FY03-FY04) | |
| $1.3 million | – | Predator Ecology Research Station at the Wildlife Research Center in Millville (FY04) | |
| $750,000 | – | Washington Fields Canal, Washington County, piping and lining (FY04) | |
| $542,750 | – | Utah Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO)/Animal Feeding Operation Pilot Project (AFO) (FY03-FY04) | |
| $270,000 | – | ARS Forage and Range Research in Logan (FY04) | |
Key Votes
| Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003, PL 108-148 (H.R. 1904) | ||
| Energy Policy Act of 2003 (H.R. 6, in conference) – 108th Congress | ||
| Energy Supply Commission, PL 106-377 | ||
| Addresses rising energy prices and America’s energy policies by establishing a Presidential Energy Commission to explore long and short-term responses to domestic energy shortages in supply and severe spikes in energy prices, and by directing the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a report on America’s energy policy. | ||
| Coal Market Competition Act, PL 106-463 (S. 2300) | ||
| Improves the level of capital investment in federal coal resources by removing disincentives to leasing and development of those lands. It also will allow for greater use of new methane development technologies and will provide more energy for electricity generation. | ||
| Wildland Fire Management, PL 106-291 (H.R. 4578) | ||
Details on the above legislation may be found on THOMAS, a service of the Library of Congress website.
Additional Resources
| Republican Policy Committee Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 Highlights of Healthy Forest Restoration Act Conference Report White House Healthy Forest Webpage Energy Webpage Protecting our Nation’s Environment |
Federal Resources Department of Interior National Parks Website National Parks in Utah State of Utah Department of Natural Resources Department of Agriculture and Food |
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