Sec. 9. Effect
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Nothing in this Act— affects the use or allocation, in existence on the date of enactment of this Act, of any water, water right, or interest in water; affects any vested absolute or decreed conditional water right in existence on the date of enactment of this Act, including any water right held by the United States; affects any claims or right to water not asserted or finally determined as of the date of enactment of this Act; affects any interstate water compact in existence on the date of enactment of this Act; authorizes or imposes any new reserved Federal water rights; or 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.
Nothing in this Act— affects the authority, jurisdiction, or responsibility of the State to manage, control, or regulate fish and wildlife under State law (including regulations), including the regulation of hunting, fishing, trapping, and recreational shooting on public land within the National Monument, and the exercise of State authority shall not be construed as conflicting with the purposes of the National Monument or this Act; limits access for hunting, fishing, trapping, or recreational shooting; or limits, under the authority of and in coordination with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the ability of Associated Tribes to conduct ceremonial hunts.
Nothing in this Act— alters, modifies, enlarges, abrogates, or diminishes rights secured by treaty, statute, Executive order, or other Federal law of any Indian Tribe, including off-reservation reserved rights; or affects any Indian land. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, nothing in this Act affects public access to land within the National Monument. Nothing in this Act modifies any provision of Federal, State, or local law with respect to use of non-Federal land. Nothing in this Act precludes the renewal or assignment of, or interferes with the operation, maintenance, replacement, modification, upgrade, or access to, within or adjacent to the boundary of the National Monument— existing flood control, utility, pipeline, and telecommunications facilities; roads or highway corridors; seismic monitoring facilities; or other water infrastructure, including wildlife water developments or water district facilities.
Any existing facility within or adjacent to the boundary of the National Monument described in subparagraph (A), (C), or
(D)of paragraph
(1)may be expanded and any new facility described in those subparagraphs may be constructed, to the extent consistent with— section 5(a); and other applicable law.