Utah gets a flagpole permit in a national forest for ten years.
H.R. 4684 — Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2025 · Filed by Mike Kennedy (R-UT) · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill tells the Secretary of Agriculture to give a permit. The permit lets someone put and keep a U.S. flagpole at Kyhv Peak Lookout Point in Utah's Uinta National Forest for ten years. The permit holder does not pay fees. The permit skips the environmental review that normally happens.
Who it affects
A Utah County resident or nonprofit group that wants to run the flagpole. The public uses the national forest.
One thing to notice
The permit does not need an environmental review. The permit holder pays no fees, so the public pays the cost instead.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 23, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 23, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources and Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources”
- Jan 14, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Hearings Held”
- Mar 5, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Mar 5, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Unanimous Consent”
- May 19, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3570)”
- May 19, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- Uinta National Forest — A large area of federal forest land in Utah that the government manages.
- environmental review — A study of how a project might affect nature, water, air, and wildlife.
- permit — A written approval from the government to use federal land for a specific purpose.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,318 characters) on Jul 9, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-09-21.
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