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H. Rept. 119-384,Part 1 1 (2025-11-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahwe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GPO 119TH CONGRESS REPT.119-384 1st Session J HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 WATER RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT NOVEMBER 25, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 302] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 302) to prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Water Rights Protection Act. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) SECRETARY.-The term Secretary means, as applicable- (A) the Secretary of Agriculture; or (B) the Secretary of the Interior. (2) WATER RIGHT.-The term water right means any surface water, ground- water, or water storage use filed, permitted, certificated, confirmed, decreed, ad- judicated, or otherwise recognized by a judicial proceeding or by the State, in which the user acquires possession of the water or puts the water to beneficial use, including water rights of federally recognized Indian Tribes. SEC. 3. POLICY DEVELOPMENT. In developing any rule, policy, directive, management plan, or similar Federal ac- tion relating to the issuance, renewal, amendment, or extension of any permit, ap- 69-006