From: ABC4
VERNAL, Utah (AP) – The Uintah CountyCommission is acknowledging a “technical” violation of the state’s open-meeting law when it met to privately discuss a federal plan for oil shale development with officials from Utah, Wyoming and Colorado.
Utah law generally requires 24-hour notice be given before public meetings. The Deseret News reports that in court records filed Wednesday, county attorney Jonathan Stearmer said notice for the 10 a.m. March 27 meeting on oil shale was posted at 10:04 a.m. March 26.
Vernal resident Sandy Hansen had filed a lawsuit alleging the March meeting was illegal.
Stearmer says Uintah County commissioners have voted to rescind a resolution they passed during the meeting that blasted the federal government’s plan to limit the land available for oil shale development. Commissioners plan to revisit it Monday.
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