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Resolution No._____
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E. J. Garn
By
COMMISSIONER
Endorsing Senate Bill No. 2919 to
clarify the rights of the United States
to waters rising on Federally=owned
land and to protect the State's rights
to such waters, and urging enactment
of said bill into law.
Presented to the Beard of Commissioned
AND PASSED
MAYS 1968
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CITY RECORDER
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ROLL CALL
VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, May 7 ,196 8
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Catmull I move that the Resolution be adopted.
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Harrison . . .
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RESOLUTION
Result . . . .
WHEREAS, water and water sources have been determining and indis-
pensable factors in the settlement and development of the State of Utah
and of the other states in the great intermountain region; and,
WHEREAS, by necessity, and to assure stability and permanence in
the urban, industrial and agricultural growth of this vast area, well
defined and time proven laws and regulations have been fostered and en-
acted by the states to govern the acquisition of water rights and their
use, based universally upon appropriation and beneficial use and creating
inalienable property rights; and,
WHEREAS, the waters and water sources thus appropriated and put to
beneficial use have their source, almost entirely, in the public domain,
owned and controlled by the Federal Government; and,
WHEREAS, the Federal Government for more than a century, has known
of and acquiesced in the right of the inhabitants to appropriate and use
the waters and water sources so rising upon and flowing from the public
domain under the laws and regulations adopted by the various states, and
the whole economy of the area rests upon the continuance of the water
rights thus established and recognized; and,
WHEREAS, for the Federal Government to now assume and assert that
it is not bound by, and need not recognize, the water rights so estab-
lished, but may ignore the same and claim control over the waters and
water sources originating on the public domain, will result in a depriva-
tion of property rights without due process of law, and will create utter
chaos in the regulation and control of the use of the nation's water
resources; and,
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WHEREAS, there is urgent need of legislation by the Congress of the
United States to define and establish the rights to the use of water and
water sources and to recognize and abide by the laws and regulations which
have been developed by the states and which now so effectively regulate
and control the appropriation and use of water sources; and,
WHEREAS, Senate Bill No. 2919, dated February 5, 1968, now before
the Congress, is designed effectively to define and establish water rights
in harmony with state laws and regulations:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, that said board does hereby endorse said Senate
Bill and the ends to be accomplished thereby, and does hereby earnestly
urge that Congress enact said bill into law.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this
7th day of May, 1968.
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J. BRACKEN LEE, MAYOR
JAMES L. BARKER, JR., COMMISSIONER
GEORGE B. CATMULL, COMMISSIONER
E. J. IA , COMMISSIONER
CONRAD B. HARRISON, COMMISSIONER