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106 STAT. 4622 PUBLIC LAW 102-575—OCT. 30, 1992 priate, and shall be repaid in the manner of repayment for each such purpose. Establishment. (f) UTAH WATER CONSERVATION ADVISORY BOARD. —(1) Within two years of the date of enactment of this Act, the Governor of the State may establish a board consisting of nine members to be known as the Utah Water Conservation Advisory Board, with the duties described in this subsection. In the event that the Governor does not establish said board by such date, the Secretary shall establish a Utah Water Conservation Advisory Board consisting of nine members appointed by the Secretary from a list of names supplied by the Governor. (2) The Board shall recommend water conservation standards and regulations for promulgation by State or local authorities in the service area of each petitioner of project water, including but not limited to the following: (A) metering or measuring of water to all customers, to be accomplished within five years. (For purposes of this paragraph, residential buildings of more than four units may be considered as single customers.); (B) elimination of declining block rate schedules from any system of water or wastewater treatment charges; (C) a program of leak detection and repair that provides for the inspection of all conveyance and mstribution mains, and the performance of repairs, at intervals of three years or less; (D) low consumption performance standards applicable to the sale and installation of plumbing fixtures and fittings in new construction; (E) requirements for the recvcling and reuse of water by all newly constructed commercial laundries and vehicle wash facilities; (F) requirements for soil preparation prior to the installation or seeding of turf grass in new residential and commercial construction; (G) requirements for the insulation of hot water pipes in all new construction; (H) requirements for the installation of water recycling or reuse systems on any newly installed commercial and industrial water-operative air conditioning and refirigeration systems; (I) standards governing the sale, installation, and removal of self-regenerating water softeners, including the identification of public water supply system service areas where such devices are prohibited, and the establishment of standards for the control of regeneration in all newly installed devices; and (J) elimination of evaporation as a principal method of wastewater treatment. (3) Any water conserved by implementation of subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), or (F) of paragraph (2) shall not be credited to the conservation goal specified under subparagraph (b)(l)(A). All other water conserved aher January 1, 1992, by a conservation measure which is placed on the active inventory shall be credited to the conservation gold specified under subparagraph (b)(l)(A). (4) The Governor may waive the applicability of^ paragraphs (2)(D) through (2)(H) above to any petitioner of project water that provides water entirely for irrigation use. Regulations. (5) Within three years of the date of enactment of this Act, the board shall transmit to the Governor and the Secretary the