[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1630 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1630

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 31, 2013

 Mr. Barrasso (for himself, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Lee, Mr. Heller, Mr. Hatch, 
Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Flake) introduced the following bill; which was read 
  twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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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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