65A-15-103. Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that:
| (1) |
Utah Lake currently faces serious challenges, including:
Terms Used In Utah Code 65A-15-103- 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
| (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; |
| (h) |
heavy nutrient loading of lake sediments and within the water column; and |
| (i) |
high wind and wave action; |
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| (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
