[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 498 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 498

   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

                             March 1, 2021

  Mr. Lee (for himself and Mr. Daines) 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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