SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The deadline for public comments on a water management plan that calls for dividing up a shared aquifer on the Nevada-Utah line has been extended.
Nevada and Utah regulators agreed to extend the deadline from Sept. 14 to Sept. 30.
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.