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Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area Act

S. 1787 · 119th Congress · May 15, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

To establish the Dolores River National Conservation Area and the Dolores River Special Management Area in the State of Colorado, to protect private water rights in the State, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area Act”.
(b)
Table of contents— The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

In this Act:
(1)
Conservation Area— The term Conservation Area means the Dolores River National Conservation Area established by section 101(a).
(2)
Council— The term Council means the Dolores River National Conservation Area Advisory Council established under section 103(a).
(3)
Covered land— The term covered land means—
(A)
the Conservation Area; and
(B)
the Special Management Area.
(4)
Dolores Project— The term Dolores Project has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Colorado Ute Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–585; 102 Stat. 2974).
(5)
Map— The term Map means the map prepared by the Bureau of Land Management entitled “Proposed Dolores River National Conservation Area and Special Management Area” and dated December 13, 2024.
(6)
Secretary— The term Secretary means—
(A)
in title I, the Secretary of the Interior;
(B)
in title II, the Secretary of Agriculture; and
(C)
in title IV—
(i)
the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior; and
(ii)
the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture.
(7)
Special Management Area— The term Special Management Area means the Dolores River Special Management Area established by section 201(a).
(8)
State— The term State means the State of Colorado.
(9)
Unreasonably diminish— The term unreasonably diminish has the same meaning as used in section 7(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1278(a)).
(10)
Water resource project— The term water resource project means any dam, irrigation and pumping facility, reservoir, water conservation work, aqueduct, canal, ditch, pipeline, well, hydropower project, and transmission and other ancillary facility, and other water diversion, storage, and carriage structure.