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Article: SEN. BENNETT'S WASHINGTON COUNTY LAND BILL PASSES SENATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 15, 2009
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The office of Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, issued the following news release:
Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) started off the new congressional session with today's passage of a lands bill package (S.22) that included his Washington County Growth & Conservation Act of 2009, a bill critical to address public land preservation and rapid population growth in Washington County.
"This is a very gratifying day for everyone in southern Utah that has been seeking solutions to the wilderness problems in their backyards for more than a decade," said Bennett. "With the co-sponsorship of Senator Hatch here in the Senate and the work of Congressman Matheson in the House, we finally achieved an ...