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SD Regulators To Revisit Polygamists Group’s Water Request

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota regulators are set to revisit a polygamist group’s application to draw water more quickly at its remote Black Hills compound.

The Water Management Board is scheduled Wednesday to consider the application, which faces opposition from nearby landowners.

The panel voted in July that the group needed to return with more details before the board decides.

Seth Jeffs, brother of imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, appeared reluctant to answer questions in July.

Jeffs told the board he’s unaware how many people live at the compound, though he spends almost all his time there.

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

The group says the water is for houses, gardens and orchards.

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