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Show Appendix D Public Comments and Responses COMMENTS RESPONSES " The best form of ownership and management was already devised under Public Law # 101- 634, the Salt Lake City Watershed Management Act of 1990. This City and the Forest Service would be well- advised to proceed immediately to resolve remaining differences so that the act may come to fnution." " Under current law only public entities can acquire a water right to protect instream flows. Does the City intend to acquire rights and protect any minimum level of instream flows? At what levels?" " The State Division of Forestry Fire and State Lands has been trying to get the counties to adopt wildland fire protection requirements into their planning and zoning ordinances to insure that buildings are not constructed in watershed areas with inflammable materials, and are properly protected from adjacent brush and vegetation. The City should support this effort and require the county's adoption of such an ordinance." " What laws governing watershed need to be updated? Why would you ask the Salt Lake County Sheriff to review them? Why not the City or County Attorneys or a consultant? Shouldn't this review precede the final adoption of the plan?" The land exchange between Salt Lake City and the Forest Service was terminated in 1996. Salt Lake City has no intention of establishing instream flows. The State Department of Natural Resources requires and provides for instream flow regulations. Salt Lake City supports this approach. Salt Lake City would like the input and guidance of the Salt Lake County Sheriff to assist in reviewing watershed ordinances. Page 136 |