Pub. L. 107-331, tit. IX, sec. 912

WATER RIGHTS.

EnactedYear: 2002Length: 164 wordsOfficial source
SEC. 912. WATER RIGHTS. This title does not— (1) impair the validity of or preempt any provision of State water law or any interstate compact governing water; (2) alter the right of any State to any appropriated share of the water of any body of surface or ground water, whether determined by any past or future interstate compact or by any past or future legislative or final judicial allocation; (3) preempt or modify any Federal or State law or interstate compact concerning water quality or disposal; (4) confer on any non-Federal entity the authority to exercise any Federal right to the water of any stream or to any ground water resource; or (5) affect any right of the Tribe to water, located within or outside the external boundaries of the Reservation, based on a treaty, compact, Executive Order, Agreements, Act of Congress, aboriginal title, the decision in Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908) (commonly known as the “Winters Doctrine”), or other law.