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The Interior Department identified 13 million acres of federal land to open up for coal leasing.

Only 48,000 acres are in Utah, but some of the tracts are near or adjacent to national parks.

The Bush administration in 2008 deemed many of the Utah parcels unsuitable for coal mining.

More than 13 million acres of public lands were opened up for coal leasing by the Trump administration at the end of September.

The announcement, titled “Interior Unleashes American Coal Power in Bold Move to Advance Trump Administration Priorities,” outlined ways it believed efforts to incentivize greater coal production would benefit the country.

“By reducing the royalty rate for coal, increasing coal acres available for leasing, and unlocking critical minerals from mine waste, we are streng

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