(MCCOOK DAILY GAZETTE) The McCook Daily Gazette reports "The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center will facilitate a task force appointed to address water sustainability of the Republican River Basin. The center will assist the 26-member Republican River Basin Water Sustainability Task Force in meeting its requirements established by LB 1057, introduced by state senators Tom Carlson of Holdrege, Mark Christensen of Imperial and Deb Fischer of Valentine.
The task force's purpose is to define water sustainability in the basin, develop and recommend a plan to reach sustainability and develop and recommend a plan to avoid a water short year. The university's role is to facilitate meetings and draft reports on behalf of the task force. The task force will produce a preliminary report to the governor and the legislature before May 15, 2011, and a final report before May 15, 2012.
With expertise in facilitation techniques, mediation-based methods, consensus-building strategies and team-building exercises, the Public Policy Center also identified experts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln skilled in regulatory issues, experienced with agencies, the private sector, government and the public."
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The task force's purpose is to define water sustainability in the basin, develop and recommend a plan to reach sustainability and develop and recommend a plan to avoid a water short year. The university's role is to facilitate meetings and draft reports on behalf of the task force. The task force will produce a preliminary report to the governor and the legislature before May 15, 2011, and a final report before May 15, 2012.
With expertise in facilitation techniques, mediation-based methods, consensus-building strategies and team-building exercises, the Public Policy Center also identified experts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln skilled in regulatory issues, experienced with agencies, the private sector, government and the public."
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