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Show priation and regulation of the use of water committed in any way to an agency which is charged by law with the duty to acquire water in Utah by the making of appropriations for the use thereof by the state or its agencies. Conflicts between claims and rights of the Utah Water and Power Board, or other state agencies owning water and individual citizens, are inevitable and the office of the State Engineer should be free and independent to make impartial decisions in accordance with state law subject to review in the state's courts where the decisions may become final,, 4. It is further the judgment of this Committee that the salary of the State Engineer should be fixed in accordance with the responsibilities of that office comparable to salaries of officers employed in other agencies of the state with like responsibilities and that the office of the State Engineer should be adequately financed to perform all of the duties assigned to it by the laws of Utah. UNDERGROUND WATER COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS Committee Activities^ At a meeting on October 7, 1955, of the Legislative Council, the following assignments to the Committee on Underground Water were made: Professor Wayne D. Criddle, Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering, Utah State Agricultural College, Logan; Mr. Horace T. Godfrey, President of the Little Cottonwood Irrigation Company, Salt Lake City; State Senator Carlyle F. Gron- ning, Milford, Millard County; Dr. George H. Hansen, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo; Professor Ray E. Marsell, Department of Geology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Dr. Harold E. Thomas, Staff Geologist, U. S„ Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, from the executive committee. 2„ Summary of Underground Water Committee minutes included as Appendix C. - 6- |