Nine people applied to serve on the Nye County Water District board, which will be responsible for developing a long term plan for sustaining the county's water resources.

The board was created after Senate Bill 222, sponsored by Nye County, was approved in the 2009 legislature. The board will have the power to incur bonded debt, issue bonds, acquire land and water rights, levy and collect taxes and other powers to develop sustainable sources of water.

Las Vegas has the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Seven people will comprise the board, but seats will be apportioned geographically. Six people applied for the three slots open in Pahrump and three people for the one position allocated for the Beatty-Amargosa Valley area. Nobody applied to represent Tonopah and nobody applied to represent the northern Nye County area including Currant Creek and Smoky Valley. No one applied for the at-large position open at county resident outside of Pahrump.

The representation ensures four people will live outside Pahrump and three people in Pahrump Valley.

Applications were due at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19. Members will be appointed to staggered terms expiring on July 1, 2009 and July 1, 2010.

Applicants from Pahrump include:

* Donna Lamm, a member of the Southern Nye County Conservation District;

* Developer Dan Harris, son of longtime developer Hollis Harris;

* Walt Kuver, a consultant for Nye County who owns the firm Directed Solutions;

* Unsuccessful Nye County Commission district three candidate Bob Dole, a slot technician;

* Timothy McCall, a real estate broker who served on the comprehensive rezoning task force;

* Pete Wallace, who has performed construction contracting work.

Three applicants are seeking the appointment in the Beatty-Amargosa Valley area:

* Bobby Revert of Beatty, former Nye County Commissioner;

* Robert Cameron, husband of Amargosa Valley town board chairman Jan Cameron;

* James Weeks, who retired a year ago as manager of the Beatty Water and Sanitation District.

County commissioners will have to appoint someone from the Tonopah area and another from northern and northeastern Nye County who will represent 19 hydrographic basins.

The applicants will be considered by Nye County commissioners Oct. 21 during a regular meeting in Pahrump.

The other two Beatty-Amargosa Valley candidates could be eligible for an at-large position open to any county resident outside of Pahrump.

Board members will be paid $80 to attend each monthly meeting plus travel expenses.

The plan is to appoint a general manager to run the district.