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The bill gives the City of Price clear ownership and transparent boundaries for a small federal parcel, enabling local development and faster administration, but it removes federal environmental oversight and shifts costs and access decisions to local authorities and taxpayers.
City of Price and its residents: the bill conveys 124.23 acres to the City, giving local ownership and control so the city can decide land use for local public purposes.
Local residents and stakeholders: the requirement to identify the parcel map and acreage and make the map public reduces boundary ambiguity and increases transparency about exactly what land is conveyed.
City of Price and nearby communities: transferring the land to local ownership enables local investment or development of community facilities (parks, infrastructure) without federal land-use restrictions.
Rural residents and the public: conveying the parcel removes federal land management and protections, which can reduce environmental safeguards and the public conservation/recreation value of that land.
Local taxpayers and the City of Price: the city could inherit maintenance, development, or environmental remediation costs for the conveyed parcels, shifting fiscal burdens to local budgets and taxpayers.
Nonresidents and taxpayers: once under city control the land could be repurposed in ways that limit future public uses or access (e.g., restricting recreational access for nonresidents).
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Transfers ~124.23 acres of BLM land near Price, Utah to the City of Price for public use, subject to valid existing rights and shown on a BLM map.
Introduced October 14, 2025 by Mike Kennedy · Last progress October 14, 2025
Transfers about 124.23 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land near Price, Utah to the City of Price for use by the City for public purposes. The Secretary of the Interior must convey all federal interest in the specified parcels at the City’s request, subject to valid existing rights and with the conveyance parcels shown on a BLM map that will be kept on file and available for public inspection.