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Great Salt Lake commissioner lays out 5 ways to use Trump’s proposed $1B — if Congress approves it

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Since February , President Donald Trump has publicly backed “making the Great Salt Lake great again” — and Utah legislators can’t wait to get their hands on his proposed $1 billion budget line item to restore the lake. But it may not come as soon as they want. Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy secured $10 million to create a new Great Salt Lake Watershed Recovery Program in June, but said she doubts the $1 billion will come speedily. Trump says he wants to make the Great Salt Lake ‘great again’ “I don’t think we’re going to get a billion dollars in one year. We’re going to get a billion dollars over a series of years,” she said in a previous interview with the Deseret News. Nevertheless, Utah leaders look ahead with optimism. Before conducting a airboat tour of areas of the lake around Farmington Bay with state lawmakers and others, Great Salt Lake Commissioner Hannah Freeze on Thursday shared five areas of priority with the Deseret News — areas she hopes will receive the federal funding the sta