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- -- .--- -r------e r--.------- -- ---- ---- -oJ ---- ------------ ----- :71 and became section 101 (g). enator Wallop described the WalloplHart provision as "a sim- Gendment" for the purpose of recognizing "the historic alloca- 'ights contained in state constitutions." He continued: "The lment speaks only-but significantly-to the rights of States to te quantities of their water and to determine priority uses. It lizes the differences in types of water law across the Nation. It lizes patterns of use."7' Speaking in support of the conference .ittee report, Senator Wallop emphasized that the purpose of sec- Ol(g) was to protect state water rights creation and administra- ~om "[t]ederal land use planning," while at the same time to "[l]egitimate water quality measures" that may have "some ef- 1 the method of water usage."7. Senator Wallop recognized that GS 208, 402, and 404 of the Clean Water Act could "incidentally the use of water under an individual water right," but empha- that the amendment preserved state jurisdiction over "priority of " which was to remain "inviolate:" Water quality and interstate movement is an acceptable Federal role and influence. But the States [sic) historic rights to allocate quantity, and establish priority of usage remains inviolate because of this amendment. The Water Pollution Control Act was designed to protect the quality of water and to protect critical wet- lands in concert with the various States. In short a responsible Federal role.'o . )r Wallop explained that section 101 (g) was meant not to change ther to reaffirm and express even more clearly another provision Act, section 510, which had been included in the 1972 Act for 123 CONGo REC. 26,762 (1977) (remarks of Sen. Wallop, indicating he offered his amendment Hart's behalf as well), reprinted in 4 LEGISLATIVE HI!ITORY OF.THE CLEAN WATER ACT, le 27, at 1030. 123 CONGo REC. 38,448 (1977) (House consideration of conference report); see 3 LEGISLA- TORY OF THE CLEAN WATER Acr, supra note 27, at 56. For the contrary treatment of this he Tenth Circuit in Riverside Irrigation District Y. Andrews, 758 F.2d 508 (10th Or. 1985), wironmentalists. see infra note 163. 123 CONGo REC. 26,762 (1977) (remarks of Sen. Wallop), reprinted in 4 LEGISLATIVE Hls- THE CLEAN WATER Acr. supra note 27, at 1030. 123 CONGo REC. 39,2fl-212 (1977) (remarks of Sen. Wallop), reprinted in 3 LEGISLATIVE OF THE CLEAN WATER ACT, supra note 27, at 531-32. 123 CONGo REC. 39.212 (1977) (remarks of Sen. Wallop), reprinted in 3 LEGISLATIVE HIS- THE CLEAN WATER ACT, supra note 27. at 532.