(E) there are no actual or proposed water 
resource facilities and no opportunities for di-
version, storage, or other uses of water occur-
ring outside the land designated as a wilderness 
area that would adversely affect the wilderness 
or other values of the land; and 
(F) because of the unique nature and hy-
drology of the desert land designated as a wil-
derness area and the existence of the Clark 
County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation 
Plan, it is possible to provide for proper man-
agement and protection of the wilderness, pe-
rennial springs, and other values of the land in 
ways different than the methods used in other 
laws. 
(2) STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.— 
(A) NO
RESERVATION.—Nothing in this 
title constitutes an express or implied reserva-
tion by the United States of any water or water 
rights with respect to the land designated as a 
wilderness area. 
(B) STATE RIGHTS.—Nothing in this title 
affects any water rights in the State existing on 
the date of enactment of this Act, including any 
water rights held by the United States. 
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(C) NO PRECEDENT.—Nothing in this sub-
section establishes a precedent with regard to 
any future wilderness designations. 
(D) NO EFFECT ON COMPACTS.—Nothing 
in this title limits, alters, modifies, or amends 
any of the interstate compacts or equitable ap-
portionment decrees that apportion water 
among and between the State and other States. 
(E) CLARK COUNTY MULTI-SPECIES HABI-
TAT
CONSERVATION
PLAN.—Nothing in this 
title limits, alters, modifies, or amends the 
Clark County Multi-Species Habitat Conserva-
tion Plan with respect to the land designated as 
a wilderness area, including specific manage-
ment actions for the conservation of perennial 
springs. 
(3) NEVADA WATER LAW.—The Secretary shall 
follow the procedural and substantive requirements 
of State law in order to obtain and hold any water 
rights not in existence on the date of enactment of 
this Act with respect to the land designated as a wil-
derness area. 
(4) NEW PROJECTS.— 
(A) DEFINITION.— 
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(i) IN GENERAL.—In this paragraph, 
the term ‘‘water resource facility’’ means 
irrigation and pumping facilities, res-
ervoirs, water conservation works, aque-
ducts, canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, hy-
dropower projects, and transmission and 
other ancillary facilities, and other water 
diversion, storage, and carriage structures. 
(ii) EXCLUSION.—In this paragraph, 
the term ‘‘water resource facility’’ does not 
include wildlife guzzlers. 
(B) NO
LICENSES
OR
PERMITS.—Except 
as otherwise provided in this title, on and after 
the date of enactment of this Act, neither the 
President nor any other officer, employee, or 
agent of the United States shall fund, assist, 
authorize, or issue a license or permit for the 
development of any new water resource facility 
within the land designated as a wilderness area. 
(d) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 
any Federal land within the wilderness areas, including 
any land or interest in land that is acquired by the United 
States within the Conservation Area after the date of en-
actment of this Act, is withdrawn from— 
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(1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
public land laws; 
(2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
laws; and 
(3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral 
materials, and geothermal leasing laws. 
SEC. 204. ADJACENT MANAGEMENT. 
(a) NO BUFFER ZONES.—Congress does not intend 
for the designation of land as wilderness areas to lead to 
the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones 
around the wilderness areas. 
(b) NONWILDERNESS ACTIVITIES.—The fact that 
nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from 
areas within a wilderness area shall not preclude the con-
duct of those activities or uses outside the boundary of 
the wilderness area. 
SEC. 205. MILITARY, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND EMERGENCY 
OVERFLIGHTS. 
Nothing in this Act restricts or precludes— 
(1) low-level overflights of military, law enforce-
ment, or emergency medical services aircraft over 
the area designated as wilderness by this Act, in-
cluding military, law enforcement, or emergency 
medical services overflights that can be seen or 
heard within the wilderness area; 
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(2) flight testing and evaluation; or 
(3) the designation or creation of new units of 
special use airspace, or the establishment of military, 
law enforcement, or emergency medical services 
flight training routes, over the wilderness area. 
SEC. 206. RELEASE OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that, for the purposes 
of section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782), the Bureau of Land 
Management land in any portion of the wilderness study 
areas located within the Conservation Area not designated 
as a wilderness area has been adequately studied for wil-
derness designation. 
(b) RELEASE.—Any Bureau of Land Management 
land described in subsection (a) that is not designated as 
a wilderness area— 
(1) is no longer subject to section 603(c) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1782(c)); 
(2) shall be managed in accordance with— 
(A) the land management plans adopted 
under section 202 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 
1712); and 
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