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[CITE: 16USC821]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
 
SUBCHAPTER I--REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
 
Sec. 821. State laws and water rights unaffected

    Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as affecting or 
intending to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws of the 
respective States relating to the control, appropriation, use, or 
distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, 
or any vested right acquired therein.

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, Sec. 27, 41 Stat. 1077; renumbered pt. 
I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, Sec. 212, 49 Stat. 847.)
