[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3189 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3189

    To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use 
 agreement on the transfer, relinquishment, or other impairment of any 
water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and 
                              Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2013

   Mr. Tipton (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. McClintock, Mr. 
    Amodei, and Mr. Polis) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the 
Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use 
 agreement on the transfer, relinquishment, or other impairment of any 
water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and 
                              Agriculture.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Water Rights Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF WATER RIGHTS.

    The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture--
            (1) shall not condition the issuance, renewal, amendment, 
        or extension of any permit, approval, license, lease, 
        allotment, easement, right-of-way, or other land use or 
        occupancy agreement on the transfer or relinquishment of any 
        water right directly to the United States, in whole or in part, 
        granted under State law, by Federal or State adjudication, 
        decree, or other judgment, or pursuant to any interstate water 
        compact and the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
        Agriculture; and
            (2) shall not require any water user to apply for a water 
        right in the name of the United States under State law as a 
        condition of the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of 
        any permit, approval, license, lease, allotment, easement, 
        right-of-way, or other land use or occupancy agreement.
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