Update 12/03/2009: I just found a link to a pdf of the 40-page petition filed by the Montana ranchers. It is extremely fascinating reading. Gives a good quick and dirty outline of the history of exempt wells as well as outlining their case for a declaratory ruling changing the definition of “combined appropriation“.
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Exempt groundwater wells [...]
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