LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A $413,000 grant will help Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas evaluate different options for managing the Republican River.

The money may help the three states resolve their long fight over the Republican River’s water. This is one of only five grants the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation plans to fund in 2012.

The Republican River starts in eastern Colorado, flows into Kansas and up to Nebraska and returns to Kansas in Republic County. A 1943 river compact says 49 percent of the river’s water is allocated to Nebraska, 40 percent to Kansas and 11 percent to Colorado.