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SD Regulators Revisiting Polygamists Group’s Water Request

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A secretive polygamist group has declined to reveal more information to South Dakota regulators as part of a request to be able to draw water more quickly at its remote Black Hills compound.

The Water Management Board considered the application Wednesday. It faces opposition from nearby landowners.

The panel said in July that the group needed to provide more details. An attorney for the sect said Wednesday more evidence isn’t necessary.

Seth Jeffs, brother of imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, was reluctant to answer questions in July. He said then he doesn’t know how many people live at the compound, despite being there frequently.

Jeffs said he doesn’t know much about the leadership of a trust run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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