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[CITE: 16USC460aa-8]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER LXXXV--SAWTOOTH NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
 
Sec. 460aa-8. Federal-State water rights

    The jurisdiction of the State and the United States over waters of 
any stream included in the recreation area shall be determined by 
established principles of law. Under the provisions of this subchapter, 
any taking by the United States of a water right which is vested under 
either State or Federal law at the time of enactment of this subchapter 
shall entitle the owner thereof to just compensation. Nothing in this 
subchapter shall constitute an express or implied claim or denial on the 
part of the Federal Government as to exemption from State water laws.

(Pub. L. 92-400, Sec. 9, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 614.)

                       References in Text

    Time of enactment of this subchapter, referred to in text, means 
Aug. 22, 1972, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 92-400, which enacted 
this subchapter.
