$40 MILLION - House Speaker Brad Wilson filed a bill that allocates $40 million to efforts to protect the Great Salt Lake by getting more water into it.
"About $40 million to start with that will kind of prime the pump — no pun intended — to ensure we have some resources to get things moving," Speaker Wilson, R-Kaysville, said in an interview with FOX 13 News on Wednesday.
HB410 would create private-public partnerships and spend money for water rights, habitat restoration and other work to save the lake. "It's certainly timely and it's certainly a significant gesture," she told FOX 13 News on Wednesday."A commitment on behalf of the state legislature to recognize in order for Great Salt Lake to get the water it needs, clearly it’s going to cost."
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