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On the recordMay 30, 2012
The importance of Uintah County is very simple--50 percent of all the jobs in that particular county are tied up with the extraction industry; 65 percent of all of the natural gas that is produced in Utah comes from this particular county.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford emphasizes the economic significance of Uintah County's extraction industry.

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