LETTER: Federal Lands Transfer Facilitation Act
July 17, 2013 -- WGA Executive Director sends letter to House Natural Resources Committee and Public Lands Subcommittee leadership conveying Governors' support for land exchange legislation
Dear Chairman Hastings:
Attached please find a resolution, recently adopted by Western Governors, supporting efforts to simplify federal-state land exchanges. On behalf of the Western Governors’ Association (WGA), I respectfully request that the document be included in the record of the Friday, July 19, 2013 hearing on various public lands bills scheduled for the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
The Governors’ resolution supports reauthorization of the Federal Lands Transfer Facilitation Act (FLTFA). H.R. 2068, sponsored by Representative Lummis, would reauthorize FLTFA, and WGA commends her for introducing this important legislation...