Governor Huntsman put together a panel of varied interests in the lake to come up with a plan to manage the GSL. The group consisted of a few legislators, a few industry people, some bird watchers, a conservationist, sewer districts, State Lands people and a waterfowler, all working for 9 months to submit a plan. After all that work, Representative Ferry scrapped the main premise of the plan and submitted a bill to the legislature that barely resembles the vision of the working group. The bill, HB 343, creates a council that would have 11 members, with two representing industry, one for sportsmen and one conservationist. The rest would be elected officials from city or county government. Scientists who research the lake aren’t represented, but could serve on a technical team that would advise the council. As the council is structured under HB343, the various recreation interests such as duck hunters, bird watchers, sailboats, duck clubs, airboats, mud motors users, and users of WMA's would all be lumped into one group with only one representative. The bulk of the council would be bureaucrats from adjoining cities or counties. This type of structure is heavy on politics and industry and light on science-based input. The Great Salt Lake would be better served by adding more representatives of user groups and scientists to the council in order to better balance the various interests.