For Immediate Release
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Utah Inland Port Authority Hires Executive Director
SALT LAKE CITY (June 5, 2019) — The Utah Inland Port Authority Board announced today that Jack C. Hedge has accepted the position as Executive director of the Utah Inland Port.
Hedge replaces acting director, Christopher M. Connabee, who was appointed by the board in January 2019 as interim director. Hedge will assume his new position working with the authority on June 24, 2019.
“Hedge’s experience at the Port of Los Angeles will be a valuable asset as we guide the development of the Northwest Quadrant,” said Derek Miller, co-chair of the Utah Inland Port Board Authority. “His knowledge will be insightful as we expand economic opportunity and international trade while mitigating the impacts to air quality, traffic congestion and recreational habitats for our great state.”
Hedge was previously the director of cargo and industrial real estate for the Port of Los Angeles. In this role, Hedge lead the development, leasing and asset management functions of the largest container port complex in North America, managing a $4 billion portfolio and more than $270 billion in cargo annually. Hedge’s previous roles include director of real estate and asset management for the Port of Tacoma, managing director for North American Energy Services Capital and Development Manager at Enserch International LTD.
“I am honored to take on this new role and to work with the UIPA Board and all interested stakeholders,” said Hedge. “The Utah Inland Port is an important project, and we must be strategic and innovative to solve the growth challenges that will impact the state of Utah”
As the Inland Port’s executive director, Hedge will oversee all operations including creating a strategic plan for the Utah Inland Port Authority under the direction of the UIPA board as well as coordinating development and working with community stakeholders to ensure the state of Utah benefits from the growth of cargo movement and logistics in the western U.S.
A photo of Jack Hedge may be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_NT5071zQ4QUB1n8KgaLbzPouGoluYCX/view?usp=sharing
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About the Utah Inland Port Authority
The Utah Inland Port Board Authority was created in 2018 by H.B. 2001 to ensure the Northwest Quadrant of Salt Lake City enhances the future economic development of businesses and citizens while improving solutions to air quality, environmental habitat and minimizing the negative impacts of growth. The Board Authority is comprised of local and state officials from both the legislative and executive branches. The authority is tasked to facilitate the development of the area known as the “Utah Inland Port” including infrastructure planning and financial tools for the benefit of the state of Utah.
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Sens. Lee and Hawley Introduce the Take Care Act
WASHINGTON – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Take Care Act Wednesday, a bill designed to promote accountability and effective administration by restoring the original understanding of the President’s constitutional power to remove his subordinates.
“For nearly 150 years after the Founding, it was well-established that Article II of the Constitution gave the President complete power to remove upper-level executive branch officers,” Sen Lee said. “But following the Supreme Court’s deeply flawed decision in Humphrey’s Executor, Congress has, since the New Deal era, gradually created an immense, headless fourth branch of government that is outside the President’s control and thus totally unaccountable to the American People. It’s time for a course correction.”
“For too long, massive federal agencies have been regulating our lives and our businesses without any democratic accountability,” Senator Hawley said. “The Take Care Act is an important step in reining in these bureaucrats by bringing them back under the control of the elected branches of our government.”
The Take Care Act would reform the administrative state by eliminating all existing restrictions on the President’s power to remove upper-level executive branch officers. Further, it limits the creation of future removal restrictions by requiring Congress to expressly establish such restrictions by statute.
The bill also eliminates certain other impediments to the President’s directive authority, such as restrictions on the White House’s review of independent agency communications. In short, the bill fully restores the original understanding of the President’s power to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.
Alongside Chevron deference and open-ended delegations of legislative authority to agencies, restrictions on the removal power are among the most troubling ways in which the modern administrative state contradicts the original constitutional design. The Take Care Act thus complements other important conservative regulatory reform initiatives, such as the Separation of Powers Restoration Act, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, and the ARTICLE ONE Act, that Senator Lee supports.
You can access an online version of this release, along with full text of the bill here.
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