SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) – A special investigator says the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission didn’t violate state open meetings law when it met last month to consider a proposed wastewater disposal well in Sioux County.

Bold Nebraska and the Nebraska Sierra Club filed a complaint that alleged the commission didn’t follow both its own meeting rules and state law.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports (http://bit.ly/1Hyeuin ) that special investigator William Austin said Friday that because the March 24 meeting met the legal definition of a meeting for a contested case and was quasi-judicial, the state’s Open Meetings Act did not apply. Austin said in a letter to both groups that the meeting was subject to the Administrative Procedure Act and that he wasn’t authorized to investigate whether there were any violations of those laws.
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Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com

By: Associated Press