WSP03270

• File Number: 8062
• Description: Federal Reserved Water Rights
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 5/1/1975
• Author: ICWP
• Title: Final Report of the Interstate Conference On Water Problems - Special Task Force on the Proposed Federal Water Rights Legislation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Foreword. . . . .

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~lembership - ICWP Special Task Force.

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PART 1 - INTRODUCTION . .

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PART 2 - OBJECTIONS TO THE DRAFT BILL

Introduction .

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I. Definitions

A. Claims for New Federal Reserved Rights . . .
B. No Limitation on Permissible Uses of Water.
C. Ambiguous as to Source of Water and Place of Use
D. Extension of Reserved Rights to Groundwater.
E. Termination of a Withdrawal on the Associated
Reserved Water Right. . . . . . . . . . .
F. Federal Reserved Rights in Riparian Jurisdictions.
G. Claims for Instream Uses . . . . . . . . . .
H. New .Class of Appropriative Rights. . . . . .
I. Definition of "Other Rights" is Non-.Specific and
Overly Broad. . . . . . . . , . . . . .

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II. Inventory

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B.

Unquantifiable Rights in Inventory . . . . . .
Undermining the Administration of State Permit
Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Information for Inventories is Incomplete.
Inventory of Rights Obtained by Indians or Indian
Tribes or their Successors.
Office in Department of Interior for the Filing of
Water Rights Inventories. .

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C.
D.

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E.

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III. Adjudication

A. Insufficient Notice or Opportunity to Obtain Judicial
Review. . . . . . . . . 15
B. Three Year Period for Review . . 16
C. Conflict of State Laws . . . . . 16
D. Determination of Validity Placed Exclusively in Federal
Agencies and Federal Judiciary. . . . . . . . . 17
E. Burden-of-Proof Placed on Non-Federal Party. . . . . 18
F. Applicable Standard of Judicial Review and Operation
Under the Administrative Procedures Act . . . . 18