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 PUBLIC LAW 103-77 —AUG. 13, 1993 107 STAT. 763 or the enlargement of any water resource facility within the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act. (d) ACCESS AND OPERATION.— <1) Subject to the provisions of this subsection (d), the Secretary shall allow reasonable access to water resource facilities in existence on the date of enactment of this Act within the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act, including motorized access where necessary and customarily employed on routes existing as of the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Existing access routes within such areas customarily employed as of the date of enactment of this Act may be used, maintained, repaired, and replaced to the extent necessary to maintain their present function, design, and serviceable operation, so long as such activities have no increased adverse impacts on the resources and values of the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act than existed as of the date of enactment of this Act. (3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (c) and (d), the Secretary shall allow water resource facilities existing on the date of enactment of this Act within areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act to be used, operated, maintained, repaired, and replaced to the extent necessary for the continued exercise, in accordance with Colorado State law, of vested water rights abjudicated for use in connection with such facilities by a court of competent jurisdiction prior to the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, That the impact of an existing facility on the water resources and values of the area shall not be increased as a result of changes in the adjudicated type of use of such facility as of the date of enactment of this Act. (4) Water resource facilities, and access routes serving such facilities, existing within the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act on the date of enactment of this Act shall be maintained and repaired when and to the extent necessary to prevent increased adverse impacts on the resources and values of the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act. (e) EXISTING PROJECTS. —Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d) of this section, the provisions of this Act related to the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act, and the inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System of the areas described in section 2 of this Act, shall not be construed to affect or limit the use, operation, maintenance, repair, modification, or replacement of water resources facilities in existence on the date of enactment of this Act within the boundaries of the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act. (0 MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION. —- The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior shall monitor the operation of and access to water resource facilities within the areas described in sections 2, 5, 6, and 9 of this Act and take all steps necessary to implement the provisions of this section. (g) INTERSTATE COMPACTS AND NORTH PLATTE RIVER.— (1) Nothing in this Act, and nothing in any previous Act designating any lands as wilderness, shall be construed as limiting, altering, modifying, or amending any of the interstate compacts or equitable apportionment decrees that apportion water among and between the State of Colorado and other States. Except as expressly provided in this section, nothing in this Act shall affect or limit the develop-

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