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the Bureau of Land Management, and the For-
est Service. 
(f) RUNNING EVENTS.—The Secretary may continue 
to authorize competitive running events currently per-
mitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness Area and 
Handies Peak Wilderness Area in a manner compatible 
with the preservation of such areas as wilderness. 
(g) LAND TRADES.—If the Secretary trades privately 
owned land within the perimeter of the Redcloud Peak 
Wilderness Area or the Handies Peak Wilderness Area in 
exchange for Federal land, then such Federal land shall 
be located in Hinsdale County, Colorado. 
(h) RECREATIONAL CLIMBING.—Nothing in this title 
prohibits recreational rock climbing activities in the wil-
derness areas, such as the placement, use, and mainte-
nance of fixed anchors, including any fixed anchor estab-
lished before the date of the enactment of this Act— 
(1) in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 
U.S.C. 1131 et seq.); and 
(2) subject to any terms and conditions deter-
mined to be necessary by the Secretary. 
(i) POTENTIAL WILDERNESS DESIGNATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The following lands are des-
ignated as potential wilderness areas:
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(A) Certain lands managed by the Colo-
rado River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management, which comprise approxi-
mately 7,376 acres, as generally depicted on a 
map titled ‘‘Pisgah East & West Proposed Wil-
derness’’ and dated October 16, 2019, which, 
upon designation as wilderness under para-
graph (2), shall be known as the Pisgah East 
Wilderness. 
(B) Certain lands managed by the Colo-
rado River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management, which comprise approxi-
mately 6,828 acres, as generally depicted on a 
map titled ‘‘Pisgah East & West Proposed Wil-
derness’’ and dated October 16, 2019, which, 
upon designation as wilderness under para-
graph (2), shall be known as the Pisgah West 
Wilderness. 
(C) Certain lands managed by the Colo-
rado River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management or located in the White 
River National Forest, which comprise approxi-
mately 16,101 acres, as generally depicted on a 
map titled ‘‘Flat Tops Proposed Wilderness Ad-
dition’’, dated October 9, 2019, and which,
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upon designation as wilderness under para-
graph (2), shall be incorporated in and shall be 
deemed to be a part of the Flat Tops Wilder-
ness designated by Public Law 94–146. 
(2) DESIGNATION
AS
WILDERNESS.—Lands 
designated as a potential wilderness area by sub-
paragraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph (1) shall 
be designated as wilderness on the date on which the 
Secretary publishes in the Federal Register a notice 
that all nonconforming uses of those lands author-
ized by subsection (e) in the potential wilderness 
area that would be in violation of the Wilderness Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) have ceased. Such publica-
tion in the Federal Register and designation as wil-
derness shall occur for the potential wilderness area 
as the nonconforming uses cease in that potential 
wilderness area and designation as wilderness is not 
dependent on cessation of nonconforming uses in the 
other potential wilderness area. 
(3) MANAGEMENT.—Except for activities pro-
vided for under subsection (e), lands designated as 
a potential wilderness area by paragraph (1) shall be 
managed by the Secretary in accordance with the 
Wilderness Act as wilderness pending the designa-
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tion of such lands as wilderness under this sub-
section. 
SEC. 104. WATER. 
(a) EFFECT ON WATER RIGHTS.—Nothing in this 
title— 
(1) affects the use or allocation, in existence on 
the date of enactment of this Act, of any water, 
water right, or interest in water; 
(2) affects any vested absolute or decreed condi-
tional water right in existence on the date of enact-
ment of this Act, including any water right held by 
the United States; 
(3) affects any interstate water compact in ex-
istence on the date of enactment of this Act; 
(4) authorizes or imposes any new reserved 
Federal water rights; and 
(5) shall be considered to be a relinquishment 
or reduction of any water rights reserved or appro-
priated by the United States in the State of Colo-
rado on or before the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
(b) MIDSTREAM AREAS.— 
(1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this subsection 
is to protect for the benefit and enjoyment of 
present and future generations—
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(A) the unique and nationally important 
values of areas designated as wilderness by sec-
tion 102(b) (including the geological, cultural, 
archaeological, paleontological, natural, sci-
entific, recreational, environmental, biological, 
wilderness, wildlife, riparian, historical, edu-
cational, and scenic resources of the public 
land); and 
(B) the water resources of area streams, 
based on seasonally available flows, that are 
necessary to support aquatic, riparian, and ter-
restrial species and communities. 
(2) WILDERNESS WATER RIGHTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall en-
sure that any water rights within the wilderness 
designated by section 102(b) required to fulfill 
the purposes of such wilderness are secured in 
accordance with subparagraphs (B) through 
(G). 
(B) STATE LAW.— 
(i) PROCEDURAL
REQUIREMENTS.— 
Any water rights for which the Secretary 
pursues adjudication shall be appropriated, 
adjudicated, changed, and administered in