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Idaho Water Resource Boaro Votes to Enter Dam LawsuitBOISE (AP) - The Idaho Water Resource Board voted today 6-1 to Intervene as a friend of the court In a lawsuit brought byCity Hunter Found DeadBLACK FOOT - A'Pocatello man was found fatally shot, the. apparent victim of a hunting accident near here about 12:30 p.m. Thursday.George Ronald Hugie, 37, 28 Willow Road, Pocatello, was crawling through a fence 2Vs miles east of here on Tanner Lane when his.,243 Winchester rifle discharged, and the bullet passed through his throat,-The body was found by David Telman, a Kraft milkman.tempi to Intervene as a party to the suit.Scott Reed, Coeur d'Alene, cast the lone vote against enter* ing the action, saying it was an unnecessary waste of money/' The board will intevene lit behalf of the Bureau of Recto Eastern Idaho farmers ana control floods on the Lower Teton River.The Sierra .Club, Trent Unlimited and other conservationist groups contend in the federal lawsuit that I he Bureau of Reclamation has underesli mated the cost of the $50 million project, had over evaluated its benefits and had failed to consider the en. vironmental impact of the project.Births' BANNOCK MEMOP1A5.HOSPITALDr, Robert R. Lee, director of the board, told the hoard (he attorney general's office had ruled the board had authority to intervene in the aellon, but the Attorney General's Office could not provide counsel to argue the board’s position.Asst, A tty, Gen., Phillip M. Barber said in Re opinion there was a conflict of interest in representing the hoard either as a party lo the suit or as a friend of the court,He explained that the stale Is opposing the Bureau of Reclamation’s position in another lawsuit, which involves the Palisades Reservoir,He added as long as the Attorney General’s Office is faced with serious litigation directly opposing the Bureau of Reclamation's interests, It mayuolatthe same time presume to represent a position in service ol the Bureau of Reclamationseve rai envi r onmental g roups seeking, to block construction of the Lower Teton Dam In Eastern Idaho,The action came after the lamation, upholding validity of board voted down, 2-5, an at- the project, which will providesupplemental Irrigation water
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Fri, Nov 12, 1971
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