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PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE v. WASHOE CTY.

No. 25066.

918 P.2d 697 (1996)

PYRAMID LAKE PAIUTE TRIBE OF INDIANS and Board of Supervisors, Lassen County, California, Appellants, v. WASHOE COUNTY, Northwest Nevada Water Resources Limited Partnership, Fish Springs Ranch Ltd., and R. Michael Turnipseed, Nevada State Engineer, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benesch & Fermoile, Reno, Fredericks, Pelcyger, Hester, & White, Boulder, Colorado, and Robert D. Stitser, Reno, for Appellants.

Frankie Sue Del Papa, Attorney General, and Susan Joseph-Taylor, Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, and Hale, Lane, Peek Dennison & Howard, and Alex J. Flangas, Reno, for Respondents.

OPINION

YOUNG, Justice:

FACTS

In the mid-1980s, Washoe County entered into joint ventures with Fish Springs Ranch LTD. ("FSR") and Northwest Nevada Water Resources Limited Partnership ("NNWR") for the purpose of importing groundwater from the Honey Lake Basin1 to the Reno and Sparks areas. FSR and NNWR filed "intra-basin" transfer applications with the Nevada State Engineer's Office to modify their existing...

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