Federal designations bill clears Senate committee

SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Mike Noel blasted the now-defunct Mountain Accord, saying the group was supposed to be about finding transportation solutions to the Wasatch canyons traffic troubles, but instead sought to tie up public lands with a federal land designation.That Wasatch Wilderness bill, which proposed 80,000 acres for wilderness designation along with land trades, prompted him to run HB136,which passed out of a Senate legislative committee 3-2 on Monday."That lack of local process and