PERMIT ISSUANCE PROHIBITED.

SEC. 1501. PERMIT ISSUANCE PROHIBITED. (a) No agency or instrumentality of the United States shall issue any permit, license, right-of-way, grant, loan or other authorization or assistance for any project or feature of any project to withdraw water from the San Luis Valley, Colorado, for export to another basin in Colorado or export to any portion of another State, unless the Secretary of the Interior determines, after due consideration of all findings provided by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, that the project will not: (1) increase the costs or negatively affect operation of the Closed Basin Project; (2) adversely affect the purposes of any national wildlife refuge or Federal wildlife habitat area withdrawal located in the San Luis Valley, Colorado; or (3) adversely affect the purposes of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. (b) Nothing in this title shall be construed to alter, amend, or limit any provision of Federal or State law that applies to any project or feature of a project to withdraw water from the San Luis Valley, Colorado, for export to another basin in Colorado or another State. Nothing in this title shall be construed to limit any agency’s authority or responsibility to reject, limit, or condition any such project on any basis independent of the requirements of this title.