[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2271. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, 
Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. 
Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 
3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety 
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. 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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