is acquired by the United States within the covered land 
after the date of enactment of this Act, is withdrawn 
from— 
(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, except as 
provided in section 102(e). 
(c) WILLING SELLERS.—Any acquisition of land or 
interests in land under this Act shall be only by purchase 
from willing sellers, donation, or exchange. 
(d) GRAZING.—The Secretary shall issue and admin-
ister any grazing leases or permits and trailing permits 
and administer allotments in the covered land in accord-
ance with the laws (including regulations) applicable to the 
issuance and administration of leases and permits on other 
land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement or Forest Service, as applicable. 
(e) ACCESS TO PRIVATE LAND.—To ensure reason-
able use and enjoyment of private property (whether in 
existence on the date of enactment of this Act or in an 
improved state), the Secretary shall grant reasonable and 
feasible access through the covered land to any private 
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property that is located within or adjacent to the covered 
land, if other routes to the private property are blocked 
by physical barriers, such as the Dolores River or the cliffs 
of the Dolores River. 
(f) EASEMENTS.—The Secretary may lease or ac-
quire easements on private land from willing lessors, do-
nors, or sellers for recreation, access, conservation, or 
other permitted uses, to the extent necessary to fulfill the 
purposes of the Conservation Area or Special Management 
Area, as applicable. 
(g) WILDFIRE, INSECT, AND DISEASE MANAGE-
MENT.—The Secretary may take any measures that the 
Secretary determines to be necessary to control fire, in-
sects, and diseases in the covered land, (including, as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate, the coordination 
of the measures with the State or a local agency). 
(h) MANAGEMENT OF PONDEROSA GORGE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage 
the areas of the Conservation Area and Special Man-
agement Area identified on the Map as ‘‘Ponderosa 
Gorge’’ in a manner that maintains the wilderness 
character of those areas as of the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
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(2) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES.—Subject to para-
graphs (3) and (4), in the areas described in para-
graph (1), the following activities shall be prohibited: 
(A) New permanent or temporary road 
construction or the renovation of nonsystem 
roads in existence on the date of enactment of 
this Act. 
(B) The use of motor vehicles, motorized 
equipment, or mechanical transport, except as 
necessary to meet the minimum requirements 
for the administration of the Federal land, to 
protect public health and safety, or to conduct 
ecological restoration activities to improve the 
aquatic habitat of the Dolores River channel. 
(C) Projects undertaken for the purpose of 
harvesting commercial timber. 
(3) UTILITY CORRIDOR.—Nothing in this sub-
section affects the operation, maintenance, or loca-
tion of the utility right-of-way within the corridor, as 
depicted on the Map. 
(4) EFFECT ON CERTAIN VEGETATION MANAGE-
MENT PROJECTS.—Nothing in this subsection— 
(A) affects the implementation of the Lone 
Pine Vegetation Management Project author-
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ized by the Forest Service in a decision notice 
dated January 23, 2020; or 
(B) prohibits activities relating to the har-
vest of merchantable products that are byprod-
ucts of activities conducted— 
(i) for ecological restoration; or 
(ii) to further the purposes of this 
Act. 
(i) EFFECT.—Nothing in this Act prohibits the Sec-
retary from issuing a new permit and right-of-way within 
the covered land for a width of not more than 150 feet 
for a right-of-way that serves a transmission line in exist-
ence on the date of enactment of this Act, on the condition 
that the Secretary shall relocate the right-of-way in a 
manner that furthers the purposes of this Act. 
(j) CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION.—Subject 
to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may re-
quire, nothing in this Act precludes the installation and 
maintenance of hydrologic, meteorological, or climato-
logical collection devices in the covered land if the facilities 
and access to the facilities are essential to public safety, 
flood warning, flood control, water reservoir operation ac-
tivities, or the collection of hydrologic data for water re-
source management purposes. 
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SEC. 402. PROTECTION OF WATER RIGHTS AND OTHER IN-
TERESTS. 
(a) DOLORES PROJECT.— 
(1) OPERATION.—The Dolores Project and the 
operation of McPhee Reservoir shall continue to be 
the responsibility of, and be operated by, the Sec-
retary, in cooperation with the Dolores Water Con-
servancy District, in accordance with applicable laws 
and obligations. 
(2) EFFECT.—Nothing in this Act affects the 
Dolores Project or the current or future operation of 
McPhee Reservoir in accordance with— 
(A) the reclamation laws; 
(B) any applicable— 
(i) Dolores Project water contract, 
storage contract, or carriage contract; or 
(ii) allocation of Dolores Project 
water; 
(C) the environmental assessment and 
finding of no significant impact prepared by the 
Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Region 
and approved August 2, 1996; 
(D) the operating agreement entitled ‘‘Op-
erating Agreement, McPhee Dam and Res-
ervoir, Contract No. 99-WC-40-R6100, Dolores 
Project, Colorado’’ and dated April 25, 2000 
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