Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 65A > Chapter 17 > Part 2 - Management

• Adaptive management berm: means a berm installed in the UP causeway breach to manage salinity to protect the ecosystem of Gilbert Bay. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Division: means the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands. See Utah Code 65A-1-1
• Emergency trigger: means the salinity levels of the Gilbert Bay of the Great Salt Lake do not satisfy the ecological conditions required for healthy brine shrimp and brine fly reproduction. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Great Salt Lake elevation: means the elevation of the Great Salt Lake as measured by the United States Geological Survey gauging station 10010000 located at Saltair Boat Harbor, Utah. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Great Salt Lake meander line: means the official meander line, completed in 1966, of the Great Salt Lake unless otherwise established by court order or negotiated boundary settlement. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Healthy physical and ecological condition: means that Gilbert Bay of the Great Salt Lake has sustained salinity levels that satisfy the ecological conditions required for healthy brine shrimp and brine fly reproduction. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Mineral or element: means :
       (10)(a) a rare earth element;
       (10)(b) a trace element or mineral;
       (10)(c) a chemical compound that includes a rare earth element or trace element or mineral; or
       (10)(d) a mineral or element that is attached, embedded to, or is a by-product of another mineral or element. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Operator: means a person qualified to do business in the state pursuing the extraction of minerals or elements from the Great Salt Lake. See Utah Code 65A-17-101
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Sovereign lands: means those lands lying below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies of water at the date of statehood and owned by the state by virtue of its sovereignty. See Utah Code 65A-1-1
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• UP causeway breach: means a breach in the 21-mile Union Pacific Railroad causeway across the Great Salt Lake that separates the Great Salt Lake into Gunnison Bay and Gilbert Bay. See Utah Code 65A-17-101