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<br />MAY 1 4 1985
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<br />:'South Dakota refuses role
<br />,:in Basin States unity plan
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<br />'PIeRRE, S,D. (AP) - South
<br />Dakota won't take pari In a
<br />?, Missouri Basin States Association
<br />"p1lrn to setUe conflicts between
<br />, 'states on water projects because
<br />. 'prior efforts haven't worked, a
<br />"ll'tale offtclal said Monday,
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<br />" ".pesplte a slmllar system that
<br />: ....as used before, offlclals from
<br />~:x;,wa, Missouri and Nebraska
<br />went to court to stop Sdutb
<br />.D~ota's sale of Missouri River
<br />:.,.ivater to the now,defunct ETSI
<br />'CDal slurry project, said Bob
<br />",',J:ieufeld, state secretary of Water
<br />. and Natural Resources,
<br />1.-;- T'I think we've been through'
<br />,;,tIlese kinds of processes before,
<br />; .arid they dido't get us anywbere,"
<br />-'Neufeld said, "How do we know
<br />,&bat U we participate in this thing
<br />: lI.aln, tbe results will be any
<br />';'different? -The answer is, we
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<br />: 'Tbe association, wblcb repro-
<br />, '.lents 10 mldwestern and western
<br />Itates, approved a system for
<br />"....ttllng water conflicts, Tbe
<br />:'S'yatem would try to .negotiate
<br />. 49CUements by bringing offlclals
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<br />and association members from abead wilb plans to fUe tbe
<br />states Involved In water-project Missouri River lawsuit, but be
<br />conflicts together with a mediator, can't yet discuss detaUs of the
<br />No South Dakota representative suit,
<br />attended last week's meeting, Tbe old Missouri River Basin
<br />"We're stUl aol1lember, but we Commission bad a plan for
<br />aren't attending the meetings," :settllng conflicts slmllar to tI:1at
<br />Neufeld said, "We're not announced last week by tbe
<br />participating In that process," Missouri Basin States Association,
<br />In fact, tbe 1985 Legislature Neufeld said. ,
<br />passed a bUl providing up to " Soutb Dakota announced Its
<br />mUllon to cover costs of a lawsuit intention In 1978 to move Missouri
<br />tbat would seek to determine River water west to Wyoming to
<br />South Dakota's rlglJts to Missouri supply water to communities In
<br />River water, western South Dakota, so com.
<br />Gov, BUI Janklow, who proposed mission members knew wbat the
<br />the lawsuit measure, wants the state was planning, Neufeld IiaId,
<br />money to fUe, a suit asking the Wben the proposed ETSI project
<br />U:S, Supreme Court to decide bow made such a pipeline feasible, the
<br />mucb river water eacb state In the downstream states stopped tbe
<br />Missouri River Basin Is entitled to state's sale of water to ETSI, be
<br />use,' said,
<br />Tbe governor bas said South Based on that record, South
<br />,Dakota learned Its lesson wben Dakota Isn't Interel;ted In the new
<br />the downstream ltates took legal proposed settlement process,
<br />' action to oppose the state's sale of Neufeld said, '
<br />water to the ETSI project, wblch Tbe best way to overcome the
<br />would bave Used Missouri River negative effects of tbe federal
<br />water to pipe Wyoming coal to court ruling on the ETSI sale Is to
<br />southern states, take some coUnter legal action, he
<br />Neufeld said the state Is moving 'said.
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