The Trump administration has marked at least 16 locations in Utah as wastes of taxpayer dollars.
The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, reports it has terminated 10 office space leases used by federal agencies in Utah as of March 2 according to its website.
The department does not list specific addresses but names the federal agency, the city of the terminated lease and the lease value:
Logan: Natural Resources Conservation Service, $164,729
Bountiful: Army Corps of Engineers, $50,160
Salt Lake City: Employment Standards Administration, $170,250
Salt Lake City: Food and Drug Administration, $95,124
Salt Lake City: National Park Service, $94,986
Salt Lake City: Trustee Program, $261,736
West Valley City: Fish and Wildlife Service, $116,431
Moab: Geological Survey, $134,100
Monticello: Farm Service Agency, $83,856
St. George: Bureau of Indian Affairs, $50,400
DOGE estimates the value of these 10 leases to be over $1.2 million combined.
(Doug McMurdo| The Moab Times-Independent) The National Park Service office building in Moab on March 4, 2025.
The department has changed or deleted entries on its website in recent weeks, adjusting the total amount of money it says it has saved, The New York Times first reported.
Democrats on the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources cited three additional offices in the state affected by DOGE’s closure plans, including a second U.S. Geological Survey office in Moab and two National Park Service offices, one in Moab and one in Monticello.
The U.S. General Services Administration listed three more sites in Utah on its “non-core property list.” The agency defines these sites as “buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations ... for disposal.”
Those include the Internal Revenue Service building in Ogden, the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building in Salt Lake City, and the St. George Federal Building.
The General Services Administration’s non-core property list was later removed from its website. The site now says the list is “coming soon.”
Utah’s congressional delegation did not respond to requests for comment about the lease terminations as of Tuesday afternoon.
