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<br />.~ <br /> <br />n'~~.J <br />~__G <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />of real property for public recreation and to mitigate losses <br /> <br />and improve conditions for the propagation of fish and <br /> <br />wildlife, notwithstanding the cost sharing requirements of <br /> <br />the 1965 Federal Water Project Recreation Act. Nor shall any <br /> <br />construction costs, or any annual operation, maintenance, and <br /> <br />replacement costs of the Wayne N. Aspinall Unit, Colorado <br /> <br />River Storage Project be allocated to municipal or ~ndustrial <br /> <br /> <br />water supply purposes as a result of said acquisition of <br /> <br />water rights. <br /> <br />(c) NO FEDERAL WATER RIGHTS. -- Inclusion of the <br /> <br />designated segment of the lower Gunnison River in the <br /> <br />national wild and scenic rivers system shall not give rise <br /> <br />to, and the Secretary shall not claim, any reservation of <br /> <br />water, either express or implied, for any purpose as a result <br /> <br />of such inclusion. Furthermore, the United States is hereby <br /> <br />directed to withdraw and abandon all claims for federal <br /> <br />reserved water rights for any and all instream flow purposes <br /> <br />on the Gunnison River in the Gunnison River National Monument <br /> <br />which it had asserted in, and are pending in or have been <br /> <br />decreed by, the courts of the State of Colorado. The United <br /> <br />States shall hereafter assert no claims for any federal water <br /> <br />rights, reserved and otherwise, on the designated segment of <br /> <br />the lower Gunnison River. <br /> <br />-5- <br />