A pair of federal measures driven by Utah’s delegation to Washington, D.C., and aimed at safeguarding the Great Salt Lake — now at its lowest-ever recorded level — are edging ahead.
This article from the Salt Lake Tribune is published through The Great Salt Lake Collaborative: A Solutions Journalism Initiative, a partnership of news, education and media organizations that aims to inform readers about the Great Salt Lake.
A measure in the U.S. House put forward by U.S. Rep. Blake Moore — the Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Program Act — passed in the House on Friday. Another plan introduced by U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney passed in the Senate on Thursday. Both call for study of the Great Salt Lake and other saline lakes in the Great Basin with an eye to identification of possible measures to keep them from drying up.
Romney said Thursday that passage of his measure, the Great Salt Lake Recovery Act, “highlights the sense of urgency that is needed if we are going to preserve and protect this critical body of water for many generations to come.”Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council, an advocacy group that calls for conservation of the state’s waterways, laments that Utah politicos have done too much talking about conserving the Great Salt Lake and not enough acting.
Likewise, Joel Ferry, executive director of the Utah Department of Natural Resources, said Moore’s measure would help bolster understanding of the Great Salt Lake and how to protect it.
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