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GOP bill would require the BLM to manage Grand Staircase by Trump’s rules

The FY2024 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill, passed by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee in July, would tie the BLM’s hands.

FILE - A hiker watches a waterfall at Lower Calf Creek Falls at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Escalante, Utah. A federal judge Friday, Aug. 11, 2023 dismissed a lawsuit from the state of Utah and two rural counties that challenged President Joe Biden's restoration of two sprawling national monuments that former President Donald Trump had downsized. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)