Grand Junction isn’t the only city in the West trying to lure the headquarters of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

As Tim Vandeneack of the Ogden Standard-Examiner reports, leaders in northern Utah plan to promote Ogden as a potential site for BLM headquarters when Susan Combs, a top official of the U.S. Department of the Interior, visits the city on Tuesday. Interior is BLM’s parent agency.

Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell hears that his city has been “short-listed” for BLM’s HQ. And U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, tells the Standard-Examiner:

If you’re going to move (the BLM), Utah makes as much sense as anybody. I know other areas like Colorado, their senators are pushing big time. I thought it’s time to use my chairmanship to push back a little on the side of Utah.

Bishop’s committee is holding a field hearing in Ogden on Tuesday. Afterward, he and other plan to give Combs a tour of the area.

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Both of Colorado’s senators – Republican Cory Gardner and Democrat Michael Bennet – have lined up behind the effort to draw BLM to Grand Junction, which is surrounded by federal lands administered by the agency.

Interior officials say they are looking seriously at a westward move for BLM HQ, which would take congressional approval.