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<br />Introduction <br /> <br />The purpose of fh.. report Is 10 descnbe and eva'uale'eg"'aflve and management alternat,ves Ihat would laCIt'fafe <br />fhe development of supplemental wafer supplIes 10 Nebraska In accomplIshIng th,s purpose the foltow'ng obJecuves <br />were add,"ssed: (1) Ident,fy exlstmg and pOlent'al wat., short a,"as and water storage locauons. (2) Ident,fy SOurces <br />and methods of water SUPply augmentatIon. (3) IdentIfy and evaluate alterna"ve admln..trat,ve and leg,slat,ve <br />actions to facilitafe water SUPply augmentation. <br />A defml"on 01 Supplemental water beg,ns Chapter 1 01 fh,s report. Th,s chapter sets the "mlts 01 the study not <br />only by Iden"fylng what is supplemental water ,n th,s study. but by d'SCuss,ng what Is not. Chapter 1 then cont,nues <br />to set the lone for the stUdy by a general discussion of SOurces and uses fOr Supplemental water. <br />Chapters 2 and 3 dIscuss ,n greater deta,'. as to loca"ons and Quan"t,es. the opportu","es lor use of supplemenlal <br />water in NebraSka and the SOurces 01 such water Chapler 3 also ouilines the components of a Supplemenlal water <br />Supply system and how those components might be Used. <br />The constramts to development 01 a supplemental water system may Come Irom a wIde va"ely 01 factors and con. <br />d'''ons. Chapter 4 consIders Impacts which may be hlnderances to developmenl and thus are consIdered as Con. <br />stralnts. These 'mpaCfs InclUde econom,c, enwonmental, teChnologIcal. Social, tegal, and Inst'tu"onal lacfors and <br />COnditIons. Chapter 5 d,scusses the current po"cles towards development of supplemental water supplIes and presents <br />POlIcy alterna"ves addreSSing development. The alterna"ves are dIrected towards change in legisla"on and manage. <br />men!. The final chaplet also presents possible general impacts of these policy alternatives. <br />The report includes selecfed references and SOurces at the end 01 each Chapter Seven appendices at the end <br />at Ihe report address: water suppl'es 'n streams, e,lstmg and proposed storage s"es, enwonmenfal COnstraInts, <br />Nebraska laws aHec"ng Supplemental water supplIes, Inst'tu"onal arrangements for water development. the rela. <br />tionShip of this policy Sfudy to others. and summaries 01 the pubhc meetings on this study. <br /> <br /> <br />xv <br /> <br />