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§460ccc–8 Water

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter CXIV— RED ROCK CANYON NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA › § 460ccc–8

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Enough water is reserved inside the conservation area to meet the area's purposes. The priority date for those reserved rights is November 16, 1990, except for lands added later — those get the priority date when the law added them. The Secretary must protect the reserved rights, including filing claims in Nevada water adjudications under section 666 of title 43. These federal rights are in addition to any earlier U.S. water rights and apply only to this conservation area; they do not set a rule for other areas or change other laws.

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Title 16, §460ccc–8

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(a)Within the conservation area designated by this subchapter, there is hereby reserved a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which the conservation area is established.
(b)The priority date of the water rights reserved in paragraph 11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”. (a) shall be November 16, 1990, except that as related to rights associated with lands added to the conservation area after November 16, 1990, the priority date shall be the date of enactment of the Act adding such lands to the conservation area.
(c)The Secretary shall take all steps necessary to protect the water rights reserved by this section, including the filing of a claim for quantification of such rights in any appropriate water adjudication in the courts of the State of Nevada in which the United States is or may be joined and which is conducted in accordance with section 666 of title 43.
(d)The Federal water rights reserved by this subchapter shall be in addition to any water rights which may have been previously secured by the United States for purposes other than for the conservation area.
(e)The Federal water rights reserved by this subchapter are specific to the conservation area designated by this subchapter. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as establishing a precedent with regard to any future designations, nor shall it constitute an interpretation of any other Act or any designation.

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1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–450 inserted before period at end “, except that as related to rights associated with lands added to the conservation area after November 16, 1990, the priority date shall be the date of enactment of the Act adding such lands to the conservation area”.

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16 U.S.C. § 460ccc–8

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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