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Governor's Geologic Hazards Working Group recommendations

Published: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:08 a.m. MDT
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• Educate local governments on their liability in the development-approval process for areas with geologic hazards.

• Encourage local governments to add or enforce a geologic-hazards element to general plans and ordinances.

• Develop a model geologic-hazards ordinance.

• Update and improve Wasatch Front geologic-hazards maps and provide outreach to cities not using such maps.

• Determine the feasibility of adopting and enforcing grading codes in Utah.

• Provide local governments access to geologic and engineering expertise to review geologic-hazards reports prior to subdivision approval.

• Ensure that the standard of practices of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering in Utah advances.

• Establish programs in engineering geology at major Utah universities.

• Improve enforcement of recommendations in site-specific geologic-hazards reports by transferring responsibility for on-site inspection and final sign-off to developer's consultants.

• Establish a Disclosure Working Group to determine a course of action and pursue legislation, if appropriate, requiring disclosure of hazards.

• Establish an investigative procedure following significant geologic-hazard damage.

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