This bill prohibits the President, in designating a national monument, from reserving any implied or expressed water rights associated with it.
Water rights for an associated national monument may only be acquired in accordance with the laws of the state in which the water rights are to be located.
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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A bill to amend title 54, United States Code, to limit the authority to reserve water rights in designating a national monument.
A bill to amend title 54, United States Code, to limit the authority to reserve water rights in designating a national monument.
Official Titles - Senate
Official Title as Introduced
A bill to amend title 54, United States Code, to limit the authority to reserve water rights in designating a national monument.
Sen. Lee, Mike