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H. Rept. 115-257,Part 1 1 (2017-07-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaios0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-257 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 WATER RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT OF 2017 JULY 25, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 2939] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2939) 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 Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor- ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 2939 is 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 Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION H.R. 2939 upholds longstanding federal deference to State water laws by prohibiting agencies within the Departments of the Inte- rior and Agriculture from conditioning or withholding the issuance of any permit, lease or other land use arrangement on the transfer of privately held water rights to the United States. Each State has its own system of water laws that govern public and private water rights within its borders. Eastern States nor- 69-006