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Show Table of Contents Introduction 1 Statement of Current Conditions and Trends on Great Salt Lake 3 Overview 3 History of Planning and Management of the Great Salt Lake 3 Great Salt Lake Authority ( 1963) 3 Re- establishment of the Authority ( 1967) 4 Department of Natural Resources ( 1967) 4 Division of the Great Salt Lake ( 1975) 4 Comprehensive Management Plan ( 1976) 5 Great Salt Lake Environs Report ( 1976) 5 Division of State Lands and Forestry ( 1979) 6 Great Salt Lake Contingency Plan ( 1983) 6 Great Salt Lake Advisory Council ( 1988) 6 General Management Plan, Great Salt Lake ( 1988) 6 Division of Sovereign Lands and Forestry ( 1994) 6 Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management Plan ( GSL CMP 1995) 7 Mineral Leasing Plan ( 1996) 7 Current Department of Natural Resources Management Responsibilities 7 Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands 7 Division of Wildlife Resources 8 Division of Parks and Recreation 8 Division of Water Rights 8 Division of Oil, Gas and Mining 9 Utah Geological Survey 9 Division of Water Resources 9 Other State Agencies 9 Department of Environmental Quality ( DEQ) 9 Division of Environmental Response and Remediation 9 Division of Water Quality 9 Division of Air Quality 10 State Ownership and Trust Responsibilities 10 The Surveyed Meander Line 11 The Public Trust over Sovereign Lands 11 Water - Hydrology 15 Changes to Inflows 15 Water Development Impacts on Lake Level 16 Changes in Water Diversions from Great Salt Lake 19 Administration of Water Rights and Diversions 19 Tributary Water Rights 20 Ground Water Rights 20 Great Salt Lake Water Rights 20 Global and Regional Climatic Change 21 Flood Plain 21 Flooding and the Operation of West Desert Pumping Project 22 Lake Level Fluctuations and Flooding 22 Great Salt Lake Planning Zones 26 Current Status of Predicting Lake Levels 29 Flooding Impacts 30 Flooding of Interstate 80 and Other Access Roads 30 Flooding Impacts on the Southern Railroad Causeway 30 Flooding Impacts on the Northern Railroad Causeway 31 i |