SandBox Utah: KSL Utah "Utah politicians outraged at push to make Arizona strip national monument"

Amy Joi O'Donoghue:
"SALT LAKE CITY — A push by environmental groups for a possible national monument designation along the Arizona Strip is provoking outrage among Utah politicians who say it will kill ranching jobs, permanently extinguish any uranium mining in the area and possibly derail the Lake Powell pipeline.

They also say the proposal is a harkening to the 1996 designation by then-President Bill Clinton, who made the sweeping declaration to create the Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, closing off for development 1.7 million acres of coal-rich country in southern Utah.

Clinton made the announcement with virtually no warning to Utah's elected leaders — a move that came during a re-election campaign, similar to the election timing facing President Obama..."
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