46-2,111.

Permit to appropriate water for instream flows; director; powers and duties.

(1) The Legislature finds that instream appropriations for recreation, fish, and wildlife should consider preferences among different uses and that all appropriations should consider the possible legal relationship between surface water and ground water. Thus the Legislature finds that, since such issues have not been fully considered, the director shall not grant any permit to appropriate water, except as specified in subsection (2) of this section, before January 1, 1997, for any application pending on or filed after June 2, 1995.

(2) The director may grant applications for (a) appropriations for flood control or sediment control structures which will not make or cause to be made any consumptive use of the impounded water, (b) applications for temporary appropriations for public construction that are five cubic feet per second or less, or (c) applications by public water suppliers for induced ground water recharge appropriations pursuant to sections 46-233 to 46-238.