COLO. GROUND WATER v. EAGLE PEAK FARMS

No. 93SC637.

919 P.2d 212 (1996)

The COLORADO GROUND WATER COMMISSION; and Marks Butte, Frenchman, Sandhills, and Central Yuma County Ground Water Management Districts; and Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District, Petitioners, v. EAGLE PEAK FARMS, LTD., a Colorado Limited Partnership, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Attorney General, Stephen E. ErkenBrack, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Timothy M. Tymkovich, Solicitor General, Jennifer L. Gimbel, Deputy Attorney General, Lee E. Miller, First Assistant Attorney General, Edward R. Kowalski, Patrick E. Kowaleski, Assistant Attorneys General, Natural Resources Section, Denver, for Petitioner Colorado Ground Water Commission.

Petrock & Fendel, P.C., James J. Petrock, Frederick A. Fendel, III, Denver, for Petitioner Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District.

No appearance on behalf of Petitioners Marks Butte, Frenchman, Sandhills, and Central Yuma County Ground Water Management Districts.

Timothy R. Buchanan, P.C., Timothy R. Buchanan, Boulder, for Respondent.


Justice HOBBS delivered the Opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in Eagle Peak Farms, Ltd. v. Colorado Ground Water Commission, 870 P.2d 539 (Colo.App.1993),1 to determine whether the court of appeals erred in holding that de novo review of a rule promulgated by petitioner, the Ground Water Commission (Commission), is to occur before a ground water judge and, if so, whether such review...

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