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Show the lake's many trust resources are interrelated. Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management Plan ( GSL CMP 1995) Completed in 1995, the Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management Plan - Planning Process and Matrix was prepared by the GSLTT for DFFSL and DNR. The goal of the plan was to, "... provide needed information and guidance in the form of recommendations to federal, state and local governments, and recommended legislation to the state legislature to facilitate and enhance management of GSL and its environs to assure protection of the unique ecosystem of the lake while promoting balanced multiple- resource uses." As described in its goal statement, the 1995 plan includes analyses of lake management issues, and makes recommendations on those issues to local, state and federal government. Many of the recommendations have been acted upon by divisions of DNR, including development of the MLP by DFFSL. Notable exceptions include actions on WDPP and water quality standards. The fate of recommendations involving local government has not been fully analyzed or reported. Mineral Leasing Plan ( 1996) As an outgrowth of the 1995 plan, DFFSL announced the withdrawal of sovereign lands from minerals leasing as part of a comprehensive planning process for management of minerals on those lands. Included were GSL, Utah Lake and the Jordan River, and portions of Bear Lake, Bear River, Colorado River and Green River. To accomplish its planning and management mandates, DFFSL is creating mineral leasing plans for each area. The GSL MLP is the first of these plans to be completed. This document reviews the history of mineral ownership and leasing, inventories mineral resources and examines the existing conflicts among resources on the lake. The MLP zones the lake bed for mineral commodity production and specifies new mineral leasing procedures. Current Department of Natural Resources Management Responsibilities Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands DFFSL is "... the executive authority for the management of sovereign lands..." in Utah, including the sovereign lands of GSL. Title 65A of the Utah Code, entitled " State Lands", establishes the division and the Forestry, Fire and State Lands Advisory Council, and sets forth the powers and responsibilities of the division and council. Section 65A- 10- 8 establishes the division's responsibility to prepare and maintain a management plan for GSL under paragraph ( 1), and establishes other responsibilities for the lake as follows: "( 2) Employ personnel and purchase equipment and supplies which the legislature authorizes through appropriations for the purposes of this chapter. ( 3) Initiate studies of the lake and its related resources. ( 4) Publish scientific and technical information concerning the lake. ( 5) Define the lake's floodplain. 7 |
