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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ken Salazar will attempt to get Colorado back a larger percentage of the money that comes from harvesting minerals on federal lands.
Salazar, a Democrat, co-sponsored with Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., an amendment to a budget bill that if passed would repeal wording slipped into a bill at the request of the Bush administration late last year.
That language shrank the share of mineral leasing revenues states receive from 50 percent to 48 percent.
The Bush administration provision takes the 2 percent of Mineral Leasing Act royalties from states to pay for administrative priorities.
A vote hasn’t been scheduled on the Salazar-Enzi amendment.
