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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · S. 769 (Introduced in Senate) — To designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Bas... · Sec. 204

Sec. 204. Water

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With respect to each wilderness area designated by this Act, Congress reserves a quantity of water determined by the Secretary to be sufficient for the wilderness area. The priority date of a right reserved under subparagraph
(A)shall be the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary and other officers and employees of the United States shall take any steps necessary to protect the rights reserved by paragraph (1)(A), including the filing of a claim for the quantification of the rights in any present or future appropriate stream adjudication in the courts of the State— in which the United States is or may be joined; and that is conducted in accordance with section 208 of the Department of Justice Appropriation Act, 1953 (66 Stat. 560, chapter 651). Nothing in this Act relinquishes or reduces any water rights reserved or appropriated by the United States in the State on or before the date of enactment of this Act. The Federal water rights reserved by this Act are specific to the wilderness areas designated by this Act. Nothing in this Act related to reserved Federal water rights— shall establish a precedent with regard to any future designation of water rights; or shall affect the interpretation of any other Act or any designation made under any other Act.
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