Show Lake Survey Nears End The public land survey around the Great Salt Lake will be completed completed com com- within six months without having to appropriate additional funds Sen Wallace F. F Bennett Utah R-Utah has learned In a reply to a letter from Sen Bennett to Interior Secretary Stewart L L. L Udall asking the to seek supplemental appropriations to complete the llie survey Sec Udall said that the survey would in in- require an adjustment utah's fiscal year 1967 cadastral cadastral survey program but that supplemental funds need not be asked from Congress SECRETARY Udall also told the llie Senator that another matter matter mat mat- ter now under consideration is the extent of surveys that might be required within the bed of the lake to define the boundaries of the federal lands for appraisal and administration tion of the mineral estate remaining remaining re- re in federal ownership Such surveys cannot be completed completed com com- within the nine months allowed the llie state of Utah to elect whether to request an appraisal or to litigate title In his letter of June 8 to the Interior Secretary Sen Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- I nett pointed out that the President President dent had recently signed the Great Salt Lake Shorelines legislation legislation leg leg- conveying c certain e r ta i n lands around the llie lake to the Ule state of Utah liE HE URGED Udall and the US U.S. Geological Survey to expedite i t e ethe the survey so that both bolli the llie state and the llie federal govern government men t can begin to administer the law and so that private Industry considering sites on the lake lakeI will know where state land beI begins be- be I gins and ends s If The Utahn said most of the 23 miles of land Is on the west side of the lake in Box BoxElder BoxElder Elder County To enable the State Land Board and the Bureau Bureau Bur Bur- eau of Land Management to determine determine de- de termine which land belongs to toI I which party these 23 miles of I border around the I lake must be surveyed quickly Sen Bennett told the Secretary I |