(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the
Interior may acquire all right, title, and interest
(including any mineral rights) of the State of
Arizona in and to Arizona State land by emi-
nent domain, only with the consent of the State
of Arizona.
(B) CONSIDERATION.—(i) As consideration
for the acquisition by the United States of Ari-
zona State land or interest in such land under
this paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior,
acting through the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, may pay fair market value for such land
or may convey to the State of Arizona all right,
title, and interest of the United States, or some
lesser interest, in one or more parcels of Fed-
eral land (including buildings and other im-
provements on such land) under the jurisdiction
of the Bureau of Land Management in the
State of Arizona.
(ii) All Federal agencies are authorized to
transfer jurisdiction of Federal land or interest
in such land (including buildings and other im-
provements on such land) to the Bureau of
Land Management upon terms and conditions
agreed upon by the Federal agency transferring
such land or interest in land and the Bureau.
Land or interest in land (including buildings
and other improvements on such land) trans-
ferred to the Bureau under this clause shall be
so transferred only—
(I) for the purpose of acquiring Ari-
zona State land or interest in such land
within the boundaries of the conservation
area; and
(II) in accordance with this section.
(iii) The land or interests in land to be
conveyed under this paragraph shall be mutu-
ally agreed upon by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the State of Arizona.
(iv) The value of the land conveyed out of
Federal ownership under this paragraph either
shall be equal to the value of the land and min-
eral interests received by the United States or,
if not, shall be equalized by a payment made by
the Secretary of the Interior or the State of Ar-
izona, as necessary.
(b) PRIVATE LAND.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized
to acquire privately owned land or interests therein
within the boundaries of the conservation area by
donation, exchange, or, only in the case of conserva-
tion easements, by purchase. Exchange under this
subsection shall be for land of equal value and shall
not reduce the tax base within the State of Arizona.
(2) EMINENT DOMAIN PROHIBITED; OTHER AC-
QUISITION LIMITED.—No privately owned land or in-
terests therein may be taken by eminent domain.
Except as provided in paragraph (3), no privately
owned land or interests therein may be purchased.
(3) EASEMENTS GIVEN PRIORITY.—In acquiring
land or interests in land under this subsection, the
Secretary shall give priority to, and whenever pos-
sible make such acquisitions in the form of, con-
servation easements. Such conservation easements
may be acquired only with the consent of, and with
just compensation made to, the owner of the land or
interests in land.
(c) JURISDICTION.—Non-Federal land within the
boundaries of the conservation area shall not fall under
the jurisdiction of the Secretary pursuant to this Act until
such land is acquired by the United States.
SEC. 7. COORDINATED MANAGEMENT.
The Secretary shall coordinate the management of
the conservation area with that of surrounding county,
State, and Federal land in such a manner as to provide
maximum assurance that the purposes of creating the con-
servation area are achieved.
SEC. 8. WITHDRAWAL.
Except as specifically authorized in this Act, and sub-
ject to valid existing rights, all public land within the con-
servation area and all land and interests therein which are
acquired by the United States after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act for inclusion in the conservation area are
withdrawn as follows:
(1) From all forms of entry, appropriation, or
disposal under the public land laws (including
amendments thereto).
(2) From location, entry, and patent under the
United States mining laws (including amendments
thereto).
(3) From disposition under all laws (including
amendments thereto) pertaining to mineral and geo-
thermal leasing.
SEC. 9. NO BUFFER ZONES.
Congress does not intend for the establishment of the
conservation area to lead to the creation of protective pe-
rimeters or buffer zones around the conservation area.
The fact that there may be activities or uses on land out-
side the conservation area that would not be permitted in
the conservation area, even if such activities can be seen,
heard, or detected from within the conservation area, shall
not preclude the activities or uses on the land up to the
boundary of the conservation area to the extent the activi-
ties or uses are consistent with other applicable law.
SEC. 10. WATER.
(a) RESERVATION.—Congress hereby reserves a
quantity of water, according to the laws and rules of the
State of Arizona, sufficient to fulfill the purposes, as speci-
fied in subsection 3(a), for which the conservation area
is established. The priority date of this reserved right shall
be the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) PROTECTION OF RESERVATION.—The Secretary
and all other officers of the United States shall take all
steps necessary to protect the right reserved by subsection
(a), including the filing by the Secretary of a claim for
the quantification of such right in any present or future
appropriate stream adjudication in the courts of the State
of Arizona in which the United States is or may be joined
and which is conducted in accordance with section 208 of
the Act of July 10, 1952 (43 U.S.C. 666; commonly
known as the McCarran Amendment).
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act
shall be construed as a relinquishment or reduction of any
water use or rights reserved or appropriated by the United
States in the State of Arizona on or before the date of