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Title 79 - Natural Resources
Chapter 9 - Mitigating the Direct Impacts of Tourism and Outdoor Recreation
Part 2 - Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grants
Section 203 - Use of outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding.
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UT Code § 79-9-203 (2025)
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Effective 7/1/2025
79-9-203. Use of outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding.
Enacted by Chapter 270, 2025 General Session
79-9-203. Use of outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding.
- (1)An eligible county that receives grant funding under Section 79-9-201:
- (a)shall use grant funding:
- (i)to pay for any present or ongoing visitor-related emergency costs or visitor-related safety costs;
- (ii)to reimburse a provider of search and rescue efforts or emergency medical services for any past, unpaid services within the eligible county;
- (iii)to support the activities of a special district providing search and rescue efforts, emergency medical services, solid waste disposal, or road repair;
- (iv)as proposed in the eligible county's or eligible special district's application for grant funding;
- (b)shall report to the division on the expenditures made with the grant funding by December 31 of each year in which grant funding is received or is unexpended;
- (c)may not use grant funding to:
- (i)supplant existing funds; or
- (ii)purchase real property or make payments toward the ownership or leasing of real property.
- (a)shall use grant funding:
- (2)If a grantee does not expend or encumber the funding within 18 months of the day on which the funding was received by the grantee due to a lack of need within the eligible county, the grantee:
- (a)shall inform the division regarding the remaining grant funding;
- (b)may retain the remaining grant funding until fully expended unless required by the division to return the remaining grant funding to the division; and
- (c)may not apply for a new outdoor recreation mitigation grant until the grant funding is fully expended or returned.
- (3)Upon receipt of unexpended outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding from a grantee, the division shall deposit the unexpended grant funding into the Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant Fund created in Section 79-9-103.
Enacted by Chapter 270, 2025 General Session
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