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 PUBLIC LAW 103-64—AUG. 4, 1993 107 STAT. 309 including but not limited to the National Historic Preservation Act, the Archaeological Resoiirces Protection Act of 1979, or the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as by itself altering the status of any lands that on the date of enactment of this Act were not managed by the Bureau of Land Management. (4) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting the Secretary from engaging qualified persons to use public lands within the conservation area for the propagation of plants (including seeds) to be used for vegetative enhancement of the conservation area in accordance with the plan and in furtherance of the purposes for which the conservation area is established. (b) RELEASE.^—The Congress finds and directs that the public lands within the Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Area estab- Ushed as a natural area in October 1971 by Public Land Order 5133 have been adequately studied and found unsuitable for wilderness designation pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Such lands are hereby released from further management pursuant to section 603(c) of such an Act and shall be managed in accordance with other applicable provisions of law, including this Act. (c) EXISTING ADMINISTRATIVE WITHDRAWAL TERMINATED. —Public Land Orders 5133 dated October 12, 1971, and 5777 dated November 21, 1980, issued by the Secretary are hereby revoked subject to subsections (d)(3) and (d)(4). (d) WATER. —(1) The Congress finds that the United States is currently a party in an adjudication of rights to waters of the Snake River, including water rights claimed by the United States on the basis of the reservation of lands for purposes of conservation of fish and wildlife and that consequently there is no need for this Act to effect a reservation by the United States of rights with respect to such waters in order to fulfill the purposes for which the conservation area is established. (2) Nothing in this Act or any action taken pursuant thereto shall constitute either an expressed or implied reservation of water or water rights for any purpose. (3) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as effecting a relinquishment or reduction of any of the water rights held or claimed by the United States within the State of Idaho or elsewhere on or before the date of enactment of this Act. (4) The Secretary and all other officers of the United States shall take all steps necessary to protect all water rights claimed by the United States in the Snake River adjudication now pending in the district court of the State of Idaho in which the United States is joined under section 208 of the Act of July 10, 1952 (66 Stat. 560; 43 U.S.C. 666; commonly referred to as the "McCarran Amendment").

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