RBC I On Monday, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO3) called the latest U.S. Forest Service permit condition for ski area water rights insufficient to protect water users from agency abuses.
He stressed the need for the Senate to pass the Water Rights Protection Act (H.R. 3189) to provide long-term certainty that private water users need, and protect them from federal attempts to infringe on their private property. The House passed Tipton’s locally driven bill with…