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House advances Great Salt Lake package: funding redirection and leasing measures pass
Summary
Lawmakers approved measures redirecting some brine-shrimp assessment revenue to sovereign-lands accounts for lake-focused projects and passed voluntary water-leasing and dedicated-water processes to prioritize flows to the Great Salt Lake.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House on Feb. 17 advanced a package of bills intended to bolster the Great Salt Lake by redirecting funds and creating mechanisms to deliver water to the lake.
Representative Raymond Ward sponsored House Bill 247, a bill that redirects an existing brine-shrimp assessment into the sovereign lands account to be used for leasing water rights into the lake or other projects to protect brine shrimp. Ward said the redirected use is intended to get “a little water go into the lake…
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