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<br />','. ) : , 4- <br />u u... ,,(.:,1 , <br /> <br />fittp:llwww.fs.fed.us/iml d irectives/fsm/2500/2540 <br /> <br />2541 <br />2541.01 <br />2541. 02 <br />2541.03 <br />2541.04 <br />2541,04a <br />2541,04b <br />2541,04c <br />2541.1 <br />2541. n <br />2541.12 <br />2541. 2 <br />2541. 21 <br />2541. 21a <br />2541,21b <br />2541,21C <br />2541.21d <br />2541,21e <br />2541,21f <br />2541. 21g <br />2541. 21h <br />2541,22 <br />2541. 22a <br />2541. 22b <br />2541. 22c <br />2541.3 <br />2541.31 <br />2541,32 <br />2541.33 <br />2541,34 <br />2541.35 <br />2541. 36 <br />2541.37 <br />2541. 4 <br />2541.41 <br />2541.42 <br /> <br />2542 <br />2542,02 <br />2542,03 <br />2542.04 <br />2542,04a <br />2542,04b <br />2542.04c <br />2542,04d <br />2542,05 <br />2542,1 <br />2542, n <br />2542,2 <br />2542,21 <br />2542.22 <br />2542,23 <br />2542,24 <br />2542,3 <br />2542,4 <br />2541 - <br /> <br />http://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsm/25 00/2540 <br /> <br />FSM 2500 - WATERSHED AND AIR MANAGEMENT <br />WO AMENDMENT 2500-90-1 <br />EFFECTIVE 6/1/90 <br /> <br />CHAPTER 2540 - WATER USES AND DEVELOPEMENT <br /> <br />Contents <br /> <br />NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM WATER RIGHTS <br />Authority <br />Objective <br />Policy <br />Responsibility <br />Chief <br />Regional Foresters <br />Forest Supervisors <br />Determining Water Rights and Needs <br />Inventory and Records Maintenance <br />Instream and Standing Water Requirements <br />Establishing Rights to Water <br />Claims Under the Reservation Doctrine <br />Priority Date <br />Former Public Domain Lands in Question <br />Other Reservation Lands <br />Rights Acquired by Others Prior to Withdrawal <br />Limitations <br />Notification to States of Water Uses for Reservation Purposes <br />Notification Procedures <br />Analyzing Water Needs <br />Securing Water Rights for Nonreserved Water <br />Quantifying Water Needs Under State Law <br />Application for Appropriative Water Rights <br />Payment of State Fees <br />Protecting Water Rights <br />Protecting Instrearn Flows <br />Possessory Interests <br />Protesting Claims by National Forest Users <br />Water Rights and Uses for Other Purposes <br />Special-Use Authorization for Water Developments <br />Participation in State Court Adjudication <br />Protests to Water Rights Applications of Others <br />Managing Water Rights <br />Verification of Water Use <br />Purchase and Exchange of Water Rights <br /> <br />MUNICIPAL SUPPLY WATERSHEDS <br />Objective <br />Policy <br />Responsibility <br />Chief <br />Director, watershed and Air Management Staff, Washington Office <br />Regional Foresters <br />Forest Supervisors <br />Definition <br />Municipal Supply Watershed Planning <br />Requirements in Forest Land Management plans <br />Administration of Municipal Supply Watersheds <br />Notices of Restrictions <br />Boundary postings <br />Case Folders <br />Monitoring <br />Inventory of Municipal Supply Watersheds <br />Formal Agreements for Management of Municipal Supply Watersheds <br />NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM WATER RIGHTS <br /> <br />2541.01 - Authority, Federal law (Acts of July 26, 1866, and July 9, <br />1870) protects possessors and owners of rights to water for mining, <br />agriculture, manufacturing or other purposes. The water rights protected <br />are those vested and accrued by priority of possession, and recognized <br /> <br />1 of \3 <br /> <br />04/2419815:58:55 <br />