79-3-508 - Agency responsibilities -- Allowing director reasonable opportunity to comment. - Utah Statutes

79-3-508. Agency responsibilities -- Allowing director reasonable opportunity tocomment.
(1) Before expending state funds or approving an undertaking, each state agency shall:
(a) take into account the effect of the undertaking on a specimen that is included in oreligible for inclusion in the State Paleontological Register; and
(b) allow the director or assigned staff a reasonable opportunity to comment regardingthe undertaking or expenditure.
(2) The director or assigned staff shall advise on ways to maximize the amount ofscientific, paleontological, and educational information recovered, in addition to the physicalrecovery of specimens and the reporting of paleontological information, at current standards ofscientific rigor.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 344, 2009 General Session