2011 Utah Code
Title 73 Water and Irrigation
Chapter 4 Determination of Water Rights
Section 11 Report and recommendation by engineer to court -- Notice -- Public meeting.

73-4-11. Report and recommendation by engineer to court -- Notice -- Public meeting.
(1) Within 30 days after the expiration of the 90 days allowed for filing statements of claims, the state engineer shall begin to tabulate the facts contained in the statements filed and to investigate, whenever the state engineer shall consider necessary, the facts set forth in the statements by reference to the surveys already made or by further surveys, and shall as expeditiously as possible report to the court a recommendation of how all rights involved shall be determined.
(2) After full consideration of the statements of claims, and of the surveys, records, and files, and after a personal examination of the river system or water source involved, if the examination is considered necessary, the state engineer shall:
(a) formulate a report and a proposed determination of all rights to the use of the water of the river system or water source;
(b) mail or deliver a copy of the report and proposed determination to each claimant with notice that any claimant dissatisfied with the report and proposed determination may within 90 days from the date of mailing or delivery file with the clerk of the district court a written objection; and
(c) hold a public meeting in the area covered by the report and proposed determination to describe the report and proposed determination to the claimants.
(3) The state engineer shall distribute the waters from the natural streams or other natural sources:
(a) in accordance with the proposed determination or modification to the proposed determination by court order until a final decree is rendered by the court; or
(b) if the right to the use of the waters has been decreed or adjudicated, in accordance with the decree until the decree is reversed, modified, vacated, or otherwise legally set aside.