[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1416 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1416

   To amend title 54, United States Code, to limit the authority to 
        reserve water rights in designating a national monument.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2015

Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. McCain, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Hatch) 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 amend title 54, United States Code, to limit the authority to 
        reserve water rights in designating a national monument.

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

SECTION 1. RESERVATION OF WATER RIGHTS AT NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Water Rights.--
            ``(1) No reservation of water rights.--In designating a 
        national monument under subsection (a), the President may not 
        reserve any implied or expressed water rights associated with 
        the national monument.
            ``(2) Applicable law.--Water rights associated with a 
        national monument designated under subsection (a) may only be 
        acquired for the national monument in accordance with the laws 
        of the State in which the water rights are to be located.''.
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