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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2533 (Introduced in Senate) — To provide short-term water supplies to drought-stricken California and provide for long-term investments in drought... · Sec. 402

Sec. 402. Area of origin and water rights protections

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In carrying out this Act, the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce shall not take any action that— diminishes, impairs, or otherwise affects in any manner any area of origin, watershed of origin, county of origin, or any other water rights protection, including rights to water appropriated before December 19, 1914, provided under California law; limits, expands, or otherwise affects the application of section 10505, 10505.5, 11128, 11460, 11461, 11462, 11463, or 12200 through 12220 of the California Water Code or any other provision of California water rights law, without respect to whether such a provision is specifically referred to in this Act; or diminishes, impairs, or otherwise affects in any manner any water rights or water rights priorities under applicable law.
Nothing in this Act— affects or modifies any obligation of the Secretary of the Interior under section 8 of the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 390, chapter 1093); or diminishes, impairs, or otherwise affects in any manner any project purposes or priorities for the allocation, delivery, or use of water under applicable law, including the project purposes and priorities established under sections 3402 and 3406 of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act ( Public Law 102–575 ; 106 Stat. 4706).
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