{"id":25466,"date":"2019-03-15T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:30:09","slug":"natural-resources-rulemaking-changes-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25466","title":{"rendered":"Natural resources rulemaking changes approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a change to rulemaking requirements for the state Department of Natural Resources March 15.<figure id=\"attachment_24410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24410\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24410\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24410\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMoser_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114743&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenMoser_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Moser&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Moser&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMoser_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMoser_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mike Moser\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMoser_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMoser_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike Moser<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n<p>LB319, sponsored by Columbus Sen. Mike Moser, repeals a requirement that the department send county, city and village clerks notice of hearings regarding floodplain management rules and regulations via mail. <\/p>\n<p>The bill also makes two changes to department rulemaking requirements.<\/p>\n<p>LB319 makes optional rather than mandatory the department\u2019s adoption and promulgation of rules and regulations regarding the allocation and expenditure of money from the Water Resources Trust Fund, which holds state and federal funds used to pay for the management and protection of the state\u2019s groundwater. <\/p>\n<p>LB319 also makes the department\u2019s adoption of rules and regulations governing the matters over which it has jurisdiction\u2014water rights for irrigation, power or other useful purposes\u2014optional rather than mandatory. <\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 43-1 to pass the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a change to rulemaking requirements for the state Department of Natural Resources March 15. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-mike-moser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25469,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions\/25469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}