Cliven Bundy will be held accountable, Interior secretary says

The Hill ^ | 6/25/15 | Timothy Cama

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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy will be held accountable for the federal land grazing fees and penalties he owes, a top federal official said.

Bundy became a national figure in April 2014 when he and scores of supporters got into an armed standoff with federal law enforcement officers over his cattle’s years of alleged unpaid grazing on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department includes the BLM, says Bundy will eventually have to answer for what he owes the federal government, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

“Cliven Bundy has had multiple court orders to remove his cattle from federal public lands and he has not paid his grazing fees and he has not abided by the law,” Jewell told the Review-Journal Wednesday on a visit to Incline Village, Nev., where she spoke at a Western Governors’ Association event.

“We will continue to pursue that,” she said.

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One thing that was never broadly mentioned during the Bunkerville standoff was,
the BLM also was interested in the mineral rights for the Bundy Ranch

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The feds maybe interested in the mineral rights but remember that Bundy
owns something less than 160 acres of land in fee. He was leasing the remaining
acreage from the BLM/Feds until he quit paying the fees some years back.