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<br />12 <br /> <br />relationship to federal statutes generally PurForting to <br />2/ <br />recognize state law as the basis of water rights.- What is <br /> <br />the legal effect of such a reserved water right on (i) preexisting <br /> <br />federal or nonfederal rights and uses under state or federal <br /> <br />law; and federal or nonfederal rights and uses intervening <br /> <br />after the date of the withdr.!iI~al or reservation of the land to <br /> <br />which the right attaches, but before the reserved water is put <br /> <br />to use on the reserved lands? <br /> <br />(b) From what kind of official action is the right <br /> <br />pU;:"j.lo..todly derived, e.g., statute, presidential order, <br /> <br />secretarial order. etc.? <br /> <br />(c) Is the reservation of water express or implied? <br /> <br />(d) What are the stated purpOses of the water or <br /> <br />land reservation? <br /> <br />(e) If the water reservation is implied. what is <br /> <br />the stated basis for the implication? <br /> <br />(f) What steps have been taken by the federal agencies <br /> <br />to attempt to quantify the right and determine its priority? <br /> <br />To what extent has notice of the magnitude and priority of the <br /> <br />~~~1 <br /> <br />asserted right been provided (i) other federal agencies, or <br /> <br />(ii) appropriate local state. interstate. or regional authorities <br /> <br />2/A list of 36 such statutes is set out in Hearings on <br />S. 1275 Before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation <br />of the Senate Committee and Interior and Insular Affairs, 88th <br />Cong.. 2d Sess. 301 (1964). <br />