---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460nnn–63"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460nnn–63"
heading: "Water rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460nnn-63"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXV — Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area"
  - "Part B — Steens Mountain Wilderness Area"
---

# §460nnn–63. Water rights


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](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) water laws.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–399, title II, § 203, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1667.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 106–399, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1655, known as the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 460nnn of this title and Tables.