WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 -- Sen. Mark Kelly issued the following press release:
Thisweek,SenatorsMark Kelly (D-AZ), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Adam Schiff (D-CA), members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW),and a bipartisan group of154 other lawmakersurgedthe Department of the Interior (DOI) to abandon a proposed transfer of federally managed public land within Yosemite National Park that would facilitate private access to and development of an 83-acre parcel adjacent to the park known as Hazel Green Ranch.
In their letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the lawmakers condemned recentreportingthat indicated the Trump Administration is considering a proposal to exchange or convey an interest in an approximately quart...