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(2) STATUTORY
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subtitle— 
(A) shall constitute or be construed to con-
stitute either an express or implied reservation 
by the United States of any water or water 
rights with respect to the land designated as 
wilderness by this subtitle; 
(B) shall affect any water rights in the 
State existing on the date of the enactment of 
this title, including any water rights held by the 
United States; 
(C) shall be construed as establishing a 
precedent with regard to any future wilderness 
designations; 
(D) shall affect the interpretation of, or 
any designation made pursuant to, any other 
Act; or 
(E) shall be construed as limiting, altering, 
modifying, or amending any of the interstate 
compacts or equitable apportionment decrees 
that apportion water among and between the 
State and other States. 
(3) NEVADA WATER LAW.—The Secretary shall 
follow the procedural and substantive requirements 
of the law of the State in order to obtain and hold
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any water rights not in existence on the date of en-
actment of this title with respect to the wilderness 
areas designated by this subtitle. 
(4) NEW PROJECTS.— 
(A) WATER
RESOURCE
FACILITY.—As 
used in this paragraph, the term ‘‘water re-
source facility’’— 
(i) means irrigation and pumping fa-
cilities, 
reservoirs, 
water 
conservation 
works, aqueducts, canals, ditches, pipe-
lines, wells, hydropower projects, and 
transmission and other ancillary facilities, 
and other water diversion, storage, and 
carriage structures; and 
(ii) does not include wildlife guzzlers. 
(B) RESTRICTION
ON
NEW
WATER
RE-
SOURCE FACILITIES.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this title, on and after the date of the 
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 wil-
derness areas designated by this title.
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SEC. 125. ADJACENT MANAGEMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Congress does not intend for the 
designation of wilderness in the State pursuant to this 
subtitle to lead to the creation of protective perimeters or 
buffer zones around any such wilderness area. 
(b) NONWILDERNESS ACTIVITIES.—The fact that 
nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from 
areas within a wilderness designated under this subtitle 
shall not preclude the conduct of those activities or uses 
outside the boundary of the wilderness area. 
SEC. 126. MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS. 
Nothing in this subtitle restricts or precludes— 
(1) low-level overflights of military aircraft over 
the areas designated as wilderness by this subtitle, 
including military overflights that can be seen or 
heard within the wilderness areas; 
(2) flight testing and evaluation; or 
(3) the designation or creation of new units of 
special use airspace, or the establishment of military 
flight training routes, over the wilderness areas. 
SEC. 127. NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS 
USES. 
Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to diminish 
the rights of any Indian tribe. Nothing in this subtitle 
shall be construed to diminish tribal rights regarding ac-
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cess to Federal land for tribal activities, including spir-
itual, cultural, and traditional food-gathering activities. 
SEC. 128. 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 public land in 
the County administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment in the following areas has been adequately studied 
for wilderness designation: 
(1) The Table Mountain Wilderness Study 
Area. 
(2) Evergreen A, B, and C Wilderness Study 
Areas. 
(3) Any portion of the wilderness study areas— 
(A) not designated as wilderness by section 
124(a); and 
(B) depicted as released on— 
(i) the map entitled ‘‘Northern Lin-
coln County Wilderness Map’’ and dated 
October 1, 2004; 
(ii) the map entitled ‘‘Southern Lin-
coln County Wilderness Map’’ and dated 
October 1, 2004; or
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(iii) the map entitled ‘‘Western Lin-
coln County Wilderness Map’’ and dated 
October 1, 2004. 
(b) RELEASE.—Any public land described in sub-
section (a) that is not designated as wilderness by this 
subtitle— 
(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) land management plans adopted under 
section 202 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1712); and 
(B) 
existing 
cooperative 
conservation 
agreements; and 
(3) shall be subject to the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 
SEC. 129. WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT. 
(a) IN
GENERAL.—In accordance with section 
4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(7)), 
nothing in this subtitle affects or diminishes the jurisdic-
tion of the State with respect to fish and wildlife manage-
ment, including the regulation of hunting, fishing, and 
trapping, in the wilderness areas designated by this sub-
title.
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(b) MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.—In furtherance of 
the purposes and principles of the Wilderness Act, man-
agement activities to maintain or restore fish and wildlife 
populations and the habitats to support such populations 
may be carried out within wilderness areas designated by 
this subtitle where consistent with relevant wilderness 
management plans, in accordance with appropriate poli-
cies such as those set forth in Appendix B of House Re-
port 101–405, including the occasional and temporary use 
of motorized vehicles, if such use, as determined by the 
Secretary, would promote healthy, viable, and more natu-
rally distributed wildlife populations that would enhance 
wilderness values and accomplish those purposes with the 
minimum impact necessary to reasonably accomplish the 
task. 
(c) EXISTING ACTIVITIES.—Consistent with section 
4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)) and 
in accordance with appropriate policies such as those set 
forth in Appendix B of House Report 101–405, the State 
may continue to use aircraft, including helicopters, to sur-
vey, capture, transplant, monitor, and provide water for 
wildlife populations, including bighorn sheep, and feral 
stock, horses, and burros. 
(d) WILDLIFE WATER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.— 
Subject to subsection (f), the Secretary shall authorize