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13 <br />1 (c) PIEDRA WILDERNESS AREA. —The Secretary <br />2 shall enter into an agreement with the Colorado Water <br />3 Conservation Board to protect and enforce instream flow <br />4 filings established pursuant to the provisions of 37 -92- <br />5 102(3) of the Colorado Revised Statutes by the Water <br />6 Court of Water Division 7 of the State of Colorado, and <br />7 neither the United States nor any other person shall assert <br />8 any rights for water in the Piedra River except those es- <br />9 tablished pursuant to the provisions of 37 -92- 102(3) of <br />10 the Colorado Revised Statutes by the Water Court of <br />11 Water Division 7 of the State of Colorado. <br />12 (d) NORTH PLATTE RIVER.— Notwithstanding any - <br />13 thing contained in this Act or any prior Acts of Congress <br />14 to the contrary, neither the United States nor any other <br />15 person shall assert any rights which may be determined <br />16 to have been established for waters of the North Platte <br />17 River for purposes of the Platte River Wilderness Area <br />18 established by the ninety- eighth Congress in Public Law <br />19 98 -550, located on the Colorado - Wyoming State bounda- <br />20 ry, to the extent such rights would limit the use or devel- <br />21 opment of water within Colorado by present and future <br />22 holders of valid water rights in the North Platte River and <br />23 its tributaries, to the full extent allowed under interstate <br />24 compact or United States Supreme Court equitable decree. <br />25 Any such rights shall be junior and subordinate to use <br />S 10291S <br />