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Don Young: “This provision is intended to maintain the status quo with regard to existing reserved water rights in the system, and…”

On the recordApril 24, 1996
This provision is intended to maintain the status quo with regard to existing reserved water rights in the system, and to clarify that reserved water rights previously created at the time of withdrawal of these lands for refuge purposes will not be expanded nor restricted, diminished, or eliminated due to the passage of H.R. 1675. As a result, refuge reserved water rights will remain exactly in the same position as they are today if H.R. 1675 becomes law.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing the implications of H.R. 1675 on reserved water rights.

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