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The group sponsoring a Red River diversion channel around the Fargo area has completed a revised plan in hopes of reviving the stalled project.

The new plan came after the North Dakota and Minnesota governors assembled 

 to study the project that was halted by a federal judge because it didn't have a permit from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority officials say the new design was handled by a technical team that included three DNR members.

The new plan reduces impacts in rural Minnesota, but some upstream opponents who filed a lawsuit to stop the project say it ignores DNR suggestions and is actually worse for some North Dakota residents.

A new permit application will be submitted to the DNR later this month.

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The new plan came after the North Dakota and Minnesota governors assembled a task force to study the project that was halted by a federal judge because it didn't have a permit from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Diversion supporters finish revised plan for stalled project

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