73-22-2 - Legislative findings. - Utah Statutes

73-22-2. Legislative findings.
It is declared to be in the public interest to foster, encourage, and promote the discovery,development, production, utilization, and disposal of geothermal resources in the State of Utah insuch manner as will prevent waste, protect correlative rights, and safeguard the naturalenvironment and the public welfare; to authorize, encourage, and provide for the development andoperation of geothermal resource properties in such manner that the maximum ultimate economicrecovery of geothermal resources may be obtained through, among other things, agreements forcooperative development, production, injection, and pressure maintenance operations.

Enacted by Chapter 188, 1981 General Session