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Show Local legislators study, favor new Lake Wasatch proposal " ByTOM HARALPSEN '. SALT LAKE CITY-As the third . week of the Utah State Legislature began Monday, some key. issues ... were just beginning to surface..,, V i v Meeting with the, Clipper Friday -it 1 several county ' legislators . were pleased with the preliminary direct tion that this year s governing body was taking. At the forefront on most legislators legisla-tors minds is the Lake Wasatch diking project Friday during lunch-time, lunch-time, several lawmakers were treated to a presentation from the Lake Wasatch Coalition. The actual bill, creating formation of a district around the lake,- has 31 sponsors, including all but one legislator from the county. It is expected to be introduced in-troduced later this week in a House ' committee, the first step in getting it approved. Senator Lane Beattie of Boun-' Boun-' tiful is anxious for the measure to come to the Senate, while Representative Rep-resentative Stan Smedley of Bountiful Boun-tiful feels the concept , will have good support in the House. Should the measure pass, a district would be created in counties, surrounding the Great Salt Lake's eastern shore- line. That would be the first step in eventual development of a fresh water recreation lake west of Davis County. Representative' Kim Burningham of Bountiful has been very , busy thus far. Ampng bills he's filed are measures' increasing penalties for , tobacco violations, prohibiting xivending machine. alcsu6nd usciof tobacco Ton school -grounds (hefis ai co-sponsor of this bill); requiring telephone directories to list if a subscriber sub-scriber does not want solicitation, as well as providing penalties for soliciting soli-citing those so noted; requiring that Tourctte Syndrome be defined as a medical problem for insurance purposes; pur-poses; and formation of an Economic Econo-mic Development Standing Committee. Com-mittee. , A library law amendments bill he sponsored was passed in the Hous? . previously, while a measure requir-i ing slow drivers to pull over when ' delaying traffic on a two-lane highway was defeated. t . j . Rep. , Joseph Hull of Hooper,-: Hooper,-: whose district includes parts of both Davis and Weber counties, is woik-ing woik-ing on a bill requiring installation of . smoke detectors in all new build-' ings, as well as those being re' modeled. Hull sits 6n the Public ; Safety subcommittee, and hopes . that bill will come out of committee soon. ; ; ;;;: - A f ;;; One bill that died in the Senate last week would have allowed gam-bling gam-bling in the Utah portion of Wen-dover. Wen-dover. Though it did not come out ,. of the Senate subcommittee, Beattie said the . measure will probably, ' come up again nexC year, as sponsors spon-sors are reworking the proposal. . |