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House Approves Bill to Speed Up Water‑rights Adjudication, Citing Cost Savings
Summary
Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 75 to modernize Utah’s water‑rights adjudication process, allowing water users to partner with the State Engineer’s office, aiming to reduce the time to complete adjudication from centuries to under 20 years and estimating roughly $500,000 in savings.
The Utah House on March 2 approved Senate Bill 75, a measure aimed at modernizing the state’s water‑rights adjudication process and giving private water users a more active role in identifying and securing claimed rights.
Representative Sandahl (House sponsor) told members the bill follows a year‑long study by the Executive Water Task Force and has unanimous committee support. ‘‘Water adjudication has been a long process…
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