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GREAT BASIN WATER NETWORK v. STATE ENG'R

No. 49718.

222 P.3d 665 (2010)

GREAT BASIN WATER NETWORK, A Nonprofit Organization; Defenders of Wildlife, A Nonprofit Corporation; Edgar Alder; Clark W. Miles; Raymond E. Timm; Theodore Stazeski; Sheldon M. Edwards; Kathryn Hill; Kenneth F. Hill; Scotty Heer; Beth B. Anderson; Susan L. Geary; Donald W. Geary; Robert Ewing; Pamela Jensen; Bruce Jensen; Renee A. Alder; Robert J. Nickerson; Joyce B. Nickerson; Edward J. Weisbrot; Alexander Rose, Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation; Robert N. Kranovich; Pamela M. Pedrini; Rick Havenstrite; Terrence P. Marasco; Bryan Hamilton; John B. Woodyard, II; Laurie E. Cruikshank; Donald Foss; Selena L. Weaver; Mary E. Collins; Candi A. Ashby; Sally L. Gust; Bruce Ashby; Daniel Maes; Robert N. Marcum; Tara Foster; Donald A. Duff; Elisabeth A. Douglass; Jamie Deneris; Nomi Martin-Sheppard; Veronica F. Douglass; Abigail C. Johnson; Marie Jordan; James Jordan; Rutherford Day; The Great Basin Chapter of Trout Unlimited; Wilda Garber; The Utah Council of Trout Unlimited; Pandora Wilson; Parker Damon; Carol Damon; Anna Heckethorn; and Deborah Torvinen, Appellants, v. Tracy TAYLOR, In His Official Capacity as the Nevada State Engineer; The State of Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources; and The Southern Nevada Water Authority, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

January 28, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah R. Wigren, Reno; Simeon Herskovits, Taos, New Mexico; Matthew K. Bishop, Helena, Montana; Brian Segee, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.

Catherine Cortez Masto, Attorney General, and Bryan L. Stockton, Deputy Attorney General, Carson City, for Respondents State Engineer and Division of Water Resources.

Taggart & Taggart, Ltd., and Paul G. Taggart and Joseph C. Reynolds, Carson City; Dana R. Smith, Las Vegas, for Respondent Southern Nevada Water Authority.

BEFORE THE COURT EN BANC.

OPINION

By the Court, HARDESTY, J.:

In this appeal, we must determine a narrow, yet fundamental question: whether the State Engineer violated his statutory duty under NRS 533.370(2) by failing to rule on Southern Nevada Water Authority's (SNWA) 1989 water appropriation applications within one year. NRS 533.370(2), as it existed in 1989, required the State Engineer to approve or reject each water appropriation...

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