Post by Logan on Jul 9, 2016 4:29:27 GMT -6
SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed federal land management rule praised by environmental groups was skewered in a congressional oversight hearing Thursday by the Western Governors' Association and a Utah official who asserts it diminishes local government input.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources' Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, went so far as to say that top Bureau of Land Management officials have been so unresponsive or dismissive of state and county concerns they ought to be eliminated in the next federal budget impasse and corresponding cuts.
"What is it going to take?" he asked Jim Lyons, the Interior Department's deputy assistant director over lands and mineral management.
"We are going to get to the point where we are gutting BLM leadership until we get to a point where they are responsive and not gutting the people we are supporting," Gohmert said.
Read more: www.deseretnews.com/article/865657619/BLMs-proposed-planning-rule-blasted-in-oversight-hearing.html
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas and chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources' Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, went so far as to say that top Bureau of Land Management officials have been so unresponsive or dismissive of state and county concerns they ought to be eliminated in the next federal budget impasse and corresponding cuts.
"What is it going to take?" he asked Jim Lyons, the Interior Department's deputy assistant director over lands and mineral management.
"We are going to get to the point where we are gutting BLM leadership until we get to a point where they are responsive and not gutting the people we are supporting," Gohmert said.
Read more: www.deseretnews.com/article/865657619/BLMs-proposed-planning-rule-blasted-in-oversight-hearing.html