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'''l"1 r) ()[h\J.< DRAFT subject to appellate review. In addition to providing procedures for adjudicating determinations of water rights, S. Sl provides for division-wide inventories or "tabulations" of decreed water rights to'be completed by the division engineers. When the tabulation is completed, the various lists of rights and priorities in the 70 former districts will have been integrated and consolidated into priority lists of all appro- priators who take water from the same source without regard to former district boundaries. S. Sl also provides a response to the need for integrated administration of the division of surface and underground water supplies. It approaches the problem by permitting the owner of a surface right to secure authorization to have a well used as an alternate point of diver- sion for the surface right, provided that the well is situated so as to draw water from the same stream system as the surface right. Wells which are not so situated are to be integrated into the lists of pri- orities for their respective water divisions, and the priority is deter- mined by the date of actual appropriation if the well owner files an application for such determination before the cutoff date of July 1, 1972. Pursuant to provisions of S. Sl, the general administrative responsibilities are primarily handled by the state and division engineers and by water judges. Authorized to work with the state and division engineers, water judges--designated district judges whose positions were created by S. Sl--hear all matters. They act for the district courts which are within their respective water division and which have exclusive -3-