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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Nearly 50 ranchers and business owners from Nevada and Utah, joined by state and national public interest groups, sued today to allow more protests of plans to pump (M)millions of gallons of rural Nevada water to the booming Las Vegas area.
The lawsuit was filed in a state district court in Ely. It accuses the state's water engineer of violating constitutional rights of people who weren't allowed to formally protest water-pumping applications of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
The state engineer's office held that such protests would only be allowed from those who protested when the S-N-W-A applications were first filed in 1989.
Individuals who sued were joined by the Great Basin Water Network, Great Basin and Utah chapters of Trout Unlimited and Defenders of Wildlife.
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