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<br />..... ,... <br />I, ~ . <br /> <br />Foreword <br /> <br />This is report number4 of the Selected Water Rights Issues Policy Study. A number of 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 nghts 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 lorce. 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 lound 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: <br /> <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 reporllo its present <br />form. <br />Other reports complete or being completed as part of the Selected Water Rights Issues Policy Study <br />include: <br /> <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) <br />