Effective 5/8/2018
65A-15-103. Legislative findings.
The Legislature finds that:
65A-15-103. Legislative findings.
The Legislature finds that:
- (1) Utah Lake currently faces serious challenges, including:
- (a) fluctuating lake levels;
- (b) uncontrolled, toxic algal blooms;
- (c) loss of native vegetation;
- (d) invasive fish and plant species;
- (e) loss of littoral zone plants;
- (f) suspended silt on the lake bottom;
- (g) poor water clarity;
- (h) heavy nutrient loading of lake sediments and within the water column; and
- (i) high wind and wave action;
- (2) initial conservation efforts are producing measurable results and demonstrate that conservation solutions can produce restoration objective on Utah Lake;
- (3) additional and significant conservation investments are needed to implement the comprehensive solutions needed to fully restore Utah Lake and its water quality;
- (4) there is not a reasonable public funding source to undertake the comprehensive solutions needed to restore Utah Lake; and
- (5) it is in the interest of the state to undertake a comprehensive restoration of Utah Lake for the benefit of public trust uses on the lake.
Enacted by Chapter 381, 2018 General Session