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House approves broad cleanup for Natural Resources code, adds enforcement language and technical fixes
Summary
The House passed House Bill 48, a large technical-update bill for the Department of Natural Resources that tightens state engineer enforcement language, aligns several definitions with federal law and updates decades‑old statutory wording. The bill passed 70–5 and now heads to the Senate.
The Utah House on the fourth day of the 2007 legislative session passed House Bill 48, a more-than-50-page update of Department of Natural Resources statutes aimed at correcting outdated language and aligning state rules with federal standards.
Representative Richard Wheeler, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the measure is intended as a technical cleanup — a ‘‘horse sense’’ revision he said would modernize statutes 40 to 50 years old. Wheeler said Amendment No. 2,…
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