Sec. 103. Water rights

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Nothing in this title— shall constitute either an express or implied reservation by the United States of any water rights with respect to the wilderness areas designated by section 101; affects any water rights— in the State of Idaho existing on the date of enactment of this Act, including any water rights held by the United States; or decreed in the Snake River Basin Adjudication, including any stipulation approved by the court in such adjudication between the United States and the State of Idaho with respect to such water rights; or establishes a precedent with regard to any future wilderness designations; or limits, alters, modifies, or amends section 9 of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area Act ( 16 U.S.C. 460aa–8 ).

Except as otherwise provided in this Act, on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, neither the President nor any other officer, employee, or agent of the United States shall fund, assist, authorize, or issue a license or permit for the development of any new water resource facility inside any of the wilderness areas designated by section 101. In this subsection, the term water resource facility means irrigation and pumping facilities, reservoirs, water conservation works, aqueducts, canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, hydropower projects, and transmission and other ancillary facilities, and other water diversion, storage, and carriage structures.

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