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Nevada head of Natural Resources: I am not carrying the water for SNWA

Posted by: Maven on February 26, 2010 at 5:44 am

From Emily Green at the Chance of Rain blog:

“Governor Jim Gibbons’ instruction to the Nevada legislature to amend state law in a way that would retroactively legalize water awards made since 1947 will not render moot a recent state Supreme Court decision that threatens the future of a controversial Las Vegas pipeline project, a senior state official said today.

Rather, Allen Biaggi, head of the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, insisted that the Governor’s instruction has been accompanied by proposed language that excludes from amnesty any awards made to the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

However, as pipeline protestors read the same document, they say they are better off staying in the courts and out of legislature.

Written by Biaggi, the language proposed to legislature would exclude awards of more than 250 acre feet per year, or involving inter-basin transfers, or ones that have been pending for more than seven* years or that are subject to court action.

In other words, Biaggi’s wording appears to exclude all awards made to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for the water pipeline that it proposes to run almost 300 miles through five valleys into the heart of rural Nevada.

“I have been getting hammered by a lot of people saying I am carrying the water for SNWA,” said Biaggi in a telephone interview. “I’m not.” … “

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February 26, 2010 · Filed Under Las Vegas & Nevada

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