Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District v. City of Fremont

Applicant, Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District (Upper Big Blue), appeals the December 16,1991, order of the director of the Department of Water Resources, denying Upper Big Blue’s applications to make intrabasin and interbasin diversions of unappropriated waters from the Platte and Blue Rivers. Upper Big Blue timely appealed to this court.

The six errors assigned by Upper Big Blue may be divided into two categories. The first category is made up of four attacks on the constitutionality of various Nebraska statutes and subsections of such statutes; the second category is directed to the…