Great Salt Lake Minerals (GSLM) is proposing a massive expansion to their solar evaporation ponds along the shores of Great Salt Lake, on land which is managed by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands (FFSL). In 2008, FRIENDS and Coalition members challenged GSLM's first expansion proposal in both the district court and the state supreme court. The suit was brought in response to FFSL's refusal to allow us to challenge their decision allowing GSLM's expansion proposal to move forward. As the suit was playing out, GSLM submitted to FFSL a second expansion proposal. Despite filing comments with FFSL regarding this second proposal, we were not notified in August 2009 when GSLM's application was approved. It was only through filing freedom of information requests in July 2010 that we learned of the approval of this second lease application. Leasing of this area should, by law, be a public process. However, it appears that the public was not adequately included nor notified of FFSL's decisions regarding GSLM expansion.