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<br />Foreword
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<br />This is report number4 of the Selected Water Rights Issues Policy Study, A numberof water policy issue
<br />studies are being conducted by the Natural Resources Commission under the Nebraska State Water
<br />Planning and Review Process, 'This report addresses the issue of property rights in ground water, both
<br />from the perspective of the individual landowner and from that of the public,
<br />The base document for this report was prepared by Norman Thorson, Professor of Law, University of
<br />Nebraska College of Law, with the assistance of an interagency task force, Members of the task force and
<br />the agencies represented are as follows:
<br />James R. Cook" ",'" Natural Resources Commission (Leader)
<br />Judy Lange, , , , , , , , , , , , ' , , Department of Environmental Control
<br />J, Michael Jess",,"""""" Department of Water Resources
<br />William Lee, , , , , , , , , , , , ' , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ' , Department of Health
<br />Darryll Pederson"",,"" Conservation & Survey Division, UNL
<br />J, David Aiken"",,"""""'" Water Resources Center, UNL
<br />Karen E. Langland, , , ' , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ' , Policy Research Office
<br />Gerald Chaffin, """"" Game & Parks Commission
<br />John Alloway, , , , , , , , , , , , ' , , ' , , , , , , , , , Department of Agriculture
<br />The Commission released this report for public review on February 17, 1982, A public hearing was held
<br />in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 24,1982 and a summary of that hearing is found in the back of this report.
<br />The Public Advisory Board provided the Natural Resources Commission with its recommendations on the
<br />alternatives contained within the task force report,
<br />Three Commission members were assigned the responsibility for considering the comments received
<br />and for preparing suggested changes in and recommendations on the report. The committee members
<br />were:
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<br />Henry p, Reifschneider, Chairman
<br />Robert W. Bell
<br />Rudolf C, Kokes
<br />Their work was utilized by the Commission to refine and supplement the task force report to its present
<br />form,
<br />Other reports complete or being completed as part of the Selected Water Rights Issues Policy Study
<br />include:
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<br />Preferences in the Use of Water (completed)
<br />Drainage of Diffused Surface Water (completed)
<br />Water Rights Adjudication (completed)
<br />Riparian Rights
<br />Interstate Water Uses and Conflicts
<br />Transferability of Surface Water Rights
<br />Beneficial Uses (decision on whether to complete is pending)
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