[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4882 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4882

   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

                           November 10, 2020

    Mr. Lee 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 be 
        acquired for the national monument only in accordance with the 
        laws of the State in which the water rights are located.''.
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