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<br /> <br />0.:888 <br /> <br />1240 Pine 51. <br />Boulder, Colorado 80302 <br />303.449,5595 <br /> <br />SIEr\r\A CLU[3 SOUTHWEST OFFICE <br /> <br />5.1029--1991 Brown(Wirth Wilderness Bill: <br /> <br />Conservationists' Concerns <br /> <br />5.1029 expressly denies a federal water right for the 21 <br />headwaters wilderness areas in the legislation and for the Piedra <br />Wilderness, a downstream area, substituting two alternative <br />approaches for protecting wilderness water resources. Both <br />approaches are radical departures from the longstanding judicial <br />and congressional history of protecting water resources on federal <br />reservations with implied federal reserved water rights as <br />articulated in the winters Doctrine. Both approaches also depart <br />radically from what Congress has been doing in recent years on <br />wilderness legislation: creating express federal water rights for <br />the amount of water "necessary" or "sufficientll to protect <br />wilderness values. <br /> <br />I. Water Rights provisions -- Section 3 <br /> <br />A. overview <br /> <br />1. Express federal water rights in recent wiiderness <br />legislation (~ Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and <br />Washington State) set the standard. <br /> <br />(a) Reservation of water sufficient to <br />fulfill the purposes of the <br />wilderness. <br /> <br />(b) Protection of valid existing rights. <br /> <br />(c) Adjudication of federal rights in <br />state court pursuant to the McCarran <br />Amendment. <br /> <br />2. 5.1029 sets up different standards for management of <br />water values -- creates second class wilderness for~~ <br /> <br />