1-3 apply for a permit to appropriate water:

1-4 1. From more than one source to be used for more than one purpose ,

1-5 [;] but individual domestic use may be included in any application with the

1-6 other use named [.] in the application;

1-7 2. For wildlife purposes unless the person:

1-8 (a) Owns the wildlife habitat; or

1-9 (b) If the person is an agency of this state or the United States, is

1-10 authorized to manage the wildlife,

1-11 for which the water is proposed to be used beneficially by that person or

1-12 agency; or

1-13 3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.437 to 533.4377,

2-3 533.330, 533.345, 533.371, 533.372 and 533.503 , [and this section,] the

2-4 state engineer shall approve an application submitted in proper form which

2-5 contemplates the application of water to beneficial use if:

2-6 (a) The application is accompanied by the prescribed fees;

2-7 (b) The proposed use or change, if within an irrigation district, does not

2-8 adversely affect the cost of water for other holders of water rights in the

2-9 district or lessen the [district’s] efficiency of the district in its delivery or

2-10 use of water; and

2-11 (c) The applicant provides proof satisfactory to the state engineer of:

2-12 (1) His intention in good faith to construct any work necessary to

2-13 apply the water to the intended beneficial use with reasonable diligence;

2-14 and

2-15 (2) His financial ability and reasonable expectation actually to

2-16 construct the work and apply the water to the intended beneficial use with

2-17 reasonable diligence.

2-18 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the state engineer

2-19 shall [either] approve or reject each application within 1 year after the final

2-20 date for filing a protest. However:

2-21 (a) Action [can] may be postponed by the state engineer upon written

2-22 authorization to do so by the applicant or, [in case of a protested

2-23 application, by both] if an application is protested, by the protestant and

2-24 the applicant; and

2-25 (b) In areas where studies of water supplies are being made or where

2-26 court actions are pending, the state engineer may withhold action until it is

2-27 determined there is unappropriated water or the court action becomes final.

2-28 3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, [where] if there is no

2-29 unappropriated water in the proposed source of supply, or [where] if its

2-30 proposed use or change conflicts with existing rights, or threatens to prove

2-31 detrimental to the public interest, the state engineer shall reject the

2-32 application and refuse to issue the requested permit. [Where] If a previous

2-33 application for a similar use of water within the same basin has been

2-34 rejected on [these] those grounds, the new application may be denied

2-35 without publication.

2-36 4. If a hearing is held regarding an application, the decision of the state

2-37 engineer must be in writing and include findings of fact, conclusions of

2-38 law and a statement of the underlying facts supporting the findings of fact.

2-39 The written decision may take the form of a transcription of an oral ruling.

2-40 The rejection or approval of an application must be endorsed on a copy of

2-41 the original application, and a record made of the endorsement in the

2-42 records of the state engineer. The copy of the application so endorsed must