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 PUBLIC LAW 103-433—OCT. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 4485 SEC. 202. NO EFFECT ON COLORADO RIVER DAMS. Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the operation of federally owned dams located on the Colorado River in the Lower Basin. SEC. 203. NO EFFECT ON UPPER BASIN. Nothing in this Act shall amend, construe, supersede, or preempt any State law, Federal law, interstate compact, or international treaty pertaining to the Colorado River (including its tributaries) in the Upper Basin, including, but not limited to the appropriation, use, development, storage, regulation, allocation, conservation, exportation, or quality of those rivers. SEC. 204. COLORADO RIVER. With respect to the Havasu and Imperial wilderness areas designated by subsection 201(a) of this title, no rights to water of the Colorado River are reserved, either expressly, impliedly, or otherwise. TITLE III- -DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK Short title. Ante, p. 4471. SEC. 301. FINDINGS. 16 USC 410aaa. The Congress hereby finds that— (1) proclamations by Presidents Herbert Hoover in 1933 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 established and expanded the Death Valley National Monument for the preservation of the unusual features of scenic, scientific, and educational interest therein contained; (2) Death Valley National Monument is today recognized as a major unit of the National Park System, having extraordinary values enjoyed by millions of visitors; (3) the monument boundaries established in the 1930's exclude and thereby expose to incompatible development and inconsistent management, contiguous Federal lands of essential and superlative natural, ecological, geological, archeological, paleontological, cultural, historical ad wilderness values; (4) Death Valley National Monument should be substantially enlarged by the addition of all contiguous Federal lands of national park caliber and afforded full recognition and statutory protection as a National Park; and (5) the wilderness within Death Valley should receive maximum statutory protection by designation pursuant to the Wilderness Act. SEC. 302. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK. There is hereby established the Death Valley National Park (hereinafter in this title referred to as the "park") as generally depicted on twenty-three maps entitled "Death Valley National Park Boundary and Wilderness—Proposed", numbered in the title one through twenty-three, and dated July 1993 or prior, which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Superintendent of the park and the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Death Valley 16 USC 431 note. National Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and interests therein are hereby incorporated within and made part 16 USC 410aaa-l.

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