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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 996 (Introduced in House) — To designate certain National Forest System lands and certain public lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of... · Sec. 110

Sec. 110. Water

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With respect to the lands designated as wilderness by this title, the Congress hereby reserves a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which the lands are designated as wilderness. The priority date of such reserved rights shall be the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and all other officers of the United States shall take all steps necessary to protect the rights reserved by subsection (a), including the filing of claims for quantification of such rights in any present or future appropriate stream adjudication, in a court of the State of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, or Washington, in which the United States has been or is properly joined in accordance with section 208 of the Act of July 10, 1952 ( 43 U.S.C. 666 ; commonly referred to as the McCarran Amendment).
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