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Text: groundwater, effluent, COLORADO RIVER WATER, INCLUDING WATER DELIVERED THROUGH THE CENTRAL ARIZONA PROJECT, or another source of surface water for surface water does not constitute abandonment or forfeiture of any right to use surface water. Sec. 4. Section 45-151. Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 45-151. Right of appropriation; permitted uses: water rights in stockponds A. Any person or, the state of Arizona or a political subdivision thereof may appropriate unappropriated water for domestic, municipal, irrigation, stock watering, water power, recreation, wildlife, including fish, nonrecoverable water storage pursuant to section 45-833.01 or mining uses, for his personal use or for delivery to consumers. The person or, the state of Arizona or a political subdivision thereof first appropriating the water shall have the better right. B. To effect the beneficial use, the person or, the state of Arizona or a political subdivision thereof appropriating the water may construct and maintain reservoirs, storage facilities pursuant to chapter 3.1 of this title, dams, canals, ditches, flumes and other necessary waterways. C. A water right in a stockpond, certified pursuant to article 10 of this chapter, shall be recognized as if such water had been appropriated pursuant to this article. D. The validity of and the right to exercise a water right obtained in accordance with state law shall not be diminished, impaired or otherwise affected because other water is or may be available to the appropriator from an alternative right or source to satisfy the same use. E. The right to water appropriated on lands owned by the United States shall be held by the person who first effects the beneficial use of the water appropriated and by the person's successor. This subsection shall not be construed to preclude the United States from being the holder of a right if the United States first effects the beneficial use. F. A water source that is located on land owned by the United St TATES AND THAT HAS BEEN OR MAY BE APPROPRIATED UNDER STATE LAW MAY BE BENEFICIALLY USED ON ANY LAND WHETHER OR NOT OWNED BY THE UNITED STATES. Sec. 5. Section 45-156, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: 45-156. Legislative authorization for appropriation of water to generate power; change in use A. An application for appropriation of waters of a stream within the state for generating electric energy in excess of twenty-five thousand horsepower, or an application for a permit to build a dam for generating hydroelectric energy on a stream within the state in excess of twenty-five thousand horsepower, shall not be approved or granted unless authorized by an act of the legislature. B. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PRESCRIBED BY THIS SECTION, a change in the use of water appropriated for domestic, municipal or irrigation uses shall not be made without approval of the director, and if the change contemplates generating hydroelectric energy or power of over twenty-five thousand horsepower, approval shall not be granted unless authorized by an act of the legislature. C. The provisions of subsections A and B of this section requiring legislative authorization for the appropriation or use of water to generate electric energy in excess of twenty-five thousand horsepower and for the building of a dam for generating hydroelectric energy in excess of twenty-five thousand horsepower shall not apply to the generation of electricity by facilities constructed prior to January 1, 1985 as part of a federally authorized reclamation project or by an agricultural improvement district organized pursuant to title 48, chapter 17. D. Subsection C of this section shall not affect the priority dates for facilities constructed prior to January 1, 1985, or the following components and appurtenant works: 1. New Waddell dam. 2. Cliff dam. 3. Increase in storage capacity of Roosevelt dam. 4. Modification of Stewart mountain dam.