In a forum Thursday about what the federal government can do to save the shrinking Great Salt Lake, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee called for laxer regulations so states can more quickly build “effective water storage infrastructure projects.”
, passed the House earlier this year. But a similar bill, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, has yet to see a vote on the Senate floor.
“When you look back at the massive large [water] storage infrastructure projects that were completed in the last century,” Lee said, “particularly the early half of the last century, a lot of those went from design concept, to steel and concrete in the ground, to completion in a year or two.” “The Audubon Society, the U.S. Geological Survey, have been extremely helpful in getting it to this point,Moore said, also praising local leaders like Gov. Spencer Cox. “Everybody has come together, and that’s the thing I’m encouraged [by], the broad support that it has.”
Blake Moore at the U.S.. House 1st District Republican primary debate in Salt Lake City on Thursday, June 2, 2022.“We’re much better off if we have not [U.S. House] Speaker Pelosi and not [Senate] Chairman Schumer,” the Republican said of Congress’s current Democratic leadership, “but if you [instead] have Barrasso as chair of
Asked about Lee’s comments regarding more storage projects in the Great Salt Lake watershed, Wilson said he recognized a need for improved water infrastructure.
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