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[CITE: 16USC410aaa-26]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
      SUBCHAPTER LIX-Y--CALIFORNIA DESERT LANDS PARKS AND PRESERVE
 
                    Part B--Joshua Tree National Park
 
Sec. 410aaa-26. Utility rights-of-way

    Nothing in this part shall have the effect of terminating any 
validly issued right-of-way or customary operation, maintenance, repair, 
and replacement activities in such right-of-way, issued, granted, or 
permitted to the Metropolitan Water District pursuant to the Boulder 
Canyon Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617-619b), which is located on lands 
included in the Joshua Tree National Park, but outside lands designated 
as wilderness under section 601(a)(2). Such activities shall be 
conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on park resources. 
Nothing in this part shall have the effect of terminating the fee title 
to lands or customary operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement 
activities on or under such lands granted to the Metropolitan Water 
District pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1932 (47 Stat. 324), which are 
located on lands included in the Joshua Tree National Park, but outside 
lands designated as wilderness under section 601(a)(2). Such activities 
shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on park 
resources. The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and eighty 
days after October 31, 1994, in consultation with the Metropolitan Water 
District, plans for emergency access by the Metropolitan Water District 
to its lands and rights-of-way.

(Pub. L. 103-433, title IV, Sec. 406, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4488.)

                       References in Text

    The Boulder Canyon Project Act, referred to in text, is act Dec. 21, 
1928, ch. 42, 45 Stat. 1057, as amended, which is classified generally 
to subchapter I (Sec. 617 et seq.) of chapter 12A of Title 43, Public 
Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 
617t of Title 43 and Tables.
    Section 601(a)(2), referred to in text, is section 601(a)(2) of Pub. 
L. 103-433, which enacted provisions listed in a table of Wilderness 
Areas set out under section 1132 of this title.
    Act of June 18, 1932 (47 Stat. 324), referred to in text, is not 
classified to the Code.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 410aaa-73 of this title.
