The Ground Water and Paleontology program evaluates the quantity and quality of Utah's ground-water resources. It also helps identify, protect, and preserve Utah's fossil resources through public outreach programs and through inventory and recovery projects that reconcile preservation and development needs. A major initiative to install monitoring wells in the West Desert was funded in FY 2008 and FY 2009.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $1,916,000 from all sources for Ground Water and Paleontology. This is a 5 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $274,100 from the General/Education Funds, a reduction of 34.4 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.