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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Gov. Gary Herbert will meet with local officials and residents in the Snake Valley about a draft management that calls for dividing up a shared aquifer on the Nevada-Utah line.
The meetings were scheduled for Friday.
In 2004, Congress required Utah and Nevada to reach an agreement on dividing up the water in the Snake Valley aquifer. The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to eventually start delivering rural groundwater from the aquifer to the Las Vegas area.
The draft agreement dictates construction of the pipeline can't begin until at least 2019 so the environmental impacts can be fully studied.
Both states would be entitled to half the water in the aquifer under the agreement.
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