Utah city gains federal land for water infrastructure project
S. 3004 — Upper Price River Watershed Project Act of 2026 · Filed by Mike Lee (R-UT) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Oct 14, 2025 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer approximately 124 acres of federal Bureau of Land Management land near Price, Utah to the city of Price for public purposes, primarily to build a reservoir and related infrastructure for public safety and transportation. The land reverts to federal ownership if the city uses it for unauthorized purposes, after notice and an opportunity to cure.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a straightforward transfer of federal land to a municipal government for specified public infrastructure purposes, with a reversion safeguard. This is routine public-lands legislation.
What the text implies
- The reversion clause gives the Secretary discretion to reclaim land if use deviates from authorized purposes, but the cure-right and hearing requirement limit arbitrary recapture and provide due process.
- The bill does not specify funding for construction or maintenance of the reservoir and related infrastructure; the City must secure those resources independently, which may affect feasibility.
- The conveyance is permanent absent reversion; the City gains full title and control, removing federal oversight of the land's long-term management.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The conveyance enables a local government to develop critical water and public infrastructure (reservoir, transportation, public safety facilities) that serves the broader community. The reversion clause with notice and cure rights protects the public interest by ensuring the land is used only for authorized public purposes.
Named in the bill
City of Price, Utah, Bureau of Land Management, Secretary of the Interior, State of Utah, Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Oct 14, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Oct 14, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources”
- Feb 12, 2026 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held”
- Mar 4, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $26,409 in lobbying spend. A filing names 26 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Mike Lee, the sponsor, reported $241,000 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Backcountry Hunters & Anglers — $26,409 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 10, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,307 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 10, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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