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Jeff Flake: Requiring a business to turn over their water rights to the Federal Government as a condition of getting a permit is…

On the recordJune 17, 2015
Requiring a business to turn over their water rights to the Federal Government as a condition of getting a permit is about like asking the oil man to sign over his drilling rig to the BLM.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Flake compares water rights to other valuable private properties.

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