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Senate adopts first substitute creating tools to prevent invasive mussel infestations
Summary
The Senate substituted and approved first substitute SB238 to give the Division of Wildlife Resources authority to inspect, detain and require decontamination of vessels and equipment to stop invasive mussels; roll call on the substitute was 25-0 with four absent.
The Utah Senate approved a first substitute to Senate Bill 238, the Aquatic Invasive Species Interdiction Act, authorizing the Division of Wildlife Resources to take preventive and enforcement actions to stop infestations of invasive mussels.
Sponsor Senator Greiner described the problem as an expanding infestation that has reached the Great Lakes and Lake Mead and said the bill would "give the Utah Division of…
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