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On the recordMarch 12, 2018
I do believe that when you removed part of Utah's monument that is now going to be open to ideas of mining claims and uranium development and off-road ATV, you did take an inch of public land out of that use.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell criticizes the removal of protections from public land for mining and development.

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