H.B. 414 Enrolled

APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT LITIGATION
AGAINST CREATION OF ESCALANTE MONUMENT
1998 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Glenn Way
AN ACT RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS; APPROPRIATING $75,000 TO THE SCHOOL
AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST LANDS ADMINISTRATION FROM THE GENERAL
FUND IN FISCAL YEAR 1998-99 FOR LEGAL COSTS INCURRED BY THE UTAH
ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES AND THE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
LANDS ADMINISTRATION TO OPPOSE THE GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE
NATIONAL MONUMENT DESIGNATION; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
This act enacts uncodified material.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Appropriation.
(1) Because the land and resources contained within the Grand Staircase - Escalante
National Monument are valuable to the people of the state, there is appropriated $75,000 to the
School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration from the General Fund in fiscal year 1998-99,
to be disbursed equally between the Utah Association of Counties and the School and Institutional
Trust Lands Administration to be used to pay legal costs incurred by the Utah Association of
Counties and the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration to oppose the Grand
Staircase - Escalante National Monument designation.
(2) The money appropriated in Subsection (1) is nonlapsing.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act takes effect on July 1, 1998.