ALERT – HB80 needs your help!
UTAH WATER GUARDIANS
ATTN: ACTION ALERT!!!!
Contact your representatives and senators NOW! Ask them as their constituents, to please support HB-80.
Rep. Fowlke has gone through the proper processes to ensure a compromised bill for all interested parties. Over the last 6 months she has had open public process at the capitol, met with the public, water users, private landowners, members of TU, the DWR, Utah Anglers Coalition, Attorney General’s Office, the Farm Bureau, etc, in order to come up with a fair and compromised bill. We fully support Representative Fowlke, HB-80 and the process. We hope that you will be encouraged to contact your representatives now.
The grassroots movement will be a key part in getting HB-80 passed.
KEY POINTS
- Reflects a full and fair public process
- HB80 is the best faith effort for a common ground compromise
- Deserves a fair honest debate on the floor of the house.
- Answers the questions that the Conatser decision left open - it narrows the scope of the easement and provides the certainty all parties need to move forward;
- Adopts the most widely accepted legal standard to define stream bed – Ordinary High Water Mark
- Contains a number of voluntary concessions by anglers, including one that will significantly limit the number of recreational users using public water of private beds (the access stamp).
- Supported by the DWR (Division of Wildlife Resources
- Places accountability on water users to know the law and it gives a defined boundary for all to know as to allow clear enforcement.
- Strengthens trespass law and increases liability protection for landowners.
Please take 5 minutes of your time and look up your representative’s contact info. Send them an email or give them a call. Be professional and polite in your correspondence and let them know that their constituents feel that HB-80 is important. Here’s a few links to help you find your reps and senators as well as links to HB-80.
How to find your Representatives –> http://utahwaterguardians.org/?page_id=19
Representative Finder –> http://www.le.state.ut.us/maps/amap.html
For more up to date information please visit the Utah Water Guardians website -> http://utahwaterguardians.org/