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Lower Niobrara NRD Issues Cease and Desist Order

Lower Niobrara NRD Issues Cease and Desist Order

05/13/2021

BUTTE, Nebraska -- The Lower Niobrara Natural Resources District’s Board of Directors voted at their regular monthly meeting May 3, 2021, to issue the District's first cease and desist order for rules non-compliance. The order was issued for failure to submit required Phase II crop reporting forms and ceases irrigation on the parcels in the order until compliance is reached. Once compliance is reached, the order will be lifted.

The Lower Niobrara NRD adopted its Groundwater Quality Management Area in 1996 and initiated the Phase II area in 2004. As part of the Phase II rules and regulations, landowners and producers submit almost 1,700 Phase II crop reports annually. The information from these reports is used to monitor activities in the Phase II areas and analyzed for outreach and education purposes in an effort decrease the groundwater nitrate issues in the District.