OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A U.S. Department of Interior leader reiterated the agency’s strong interest in moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to the West during a visit to a northern Utah city that is under consideration as a new home.
Interior assistant secretary Susan Combs said the move isn’t a done deal, but she spoke passionately on Tuesday in Ogden, Utah, about the need to bridge the gap between bureaucrats in Washington and the people who their decisions impact.
The bureau manages nearly 388,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) nationwide, and 99 percent is in 12 Western states.
Ogden is one of many cities under consideration in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.
A decision about whether to move the Bureau and to where isn’t expected for many months.
