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Utah DEQ outlines budget priorities, requests funds to monitor Great Salt Lake dust and boost emergency cleanup
Summary
Utah Department of Environmental Quality told a legislative subcommittee it will press for funding this session to monitor dust from the Great Salt Lake, strengthen its radioactive materials program and add one-time money to the state's environmental emergency response fund.
Kim Shelley, executive director of Utah's Department of Environmental Quality, told the Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee that DEQ will press three budget requests this year: ongoing funding to study critical dust concerns (focused on the Great Salt Lake but statewide in scope), support for the radioactive materials program, and a one-time $4,000,000 transfer to the environmental emergency response and cleanup fund.
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