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LINCOLN, Neb. -- Water officials and farmers from across a large swath of eastern Nebraska have asked the state not to block more irrigation development along the lower reaches of the Platte River basin.
They already have a tentative decision from the state on their side. In October, the state Department of Natural Resources issued a preliminary ruling that the basin could withstand more irrigation and other types of water-use development.
But state officials from another agency, the Game and Parks Commission, are armed with studies that have a starkly different message.
The studies show if regulations aren't enacted through a formal, state declaration of the basin as fully appropriated, threatened and endangered species that call the river home could disappear.
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