16 U.S.C. § 544k — Tributary rivers and streams

(a) Water-resources projects. The rivers and streams below receive the same licensing, permitting, exemption, and construction restrictions that section 7(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act applies to National Wild and Scenic Rivers components: (1) tributaries to the Columbia River that flow partly or wholly through a Special Management Area, unless the project would not directly and adversely affect the scenic, cultural, recreational, and natural resources; (2) rivers or segments flowing partly or wholly through the scenic area that State law designates as wild, scenic, or recreational, or studies for possible State designation, unless the project meets the responsible State agencies' terms and conditions; (3) the Wind River, Washington, for at least three years after the later of final approval of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Plan or the Secretary's report to the President on whether the river is suitable for addition to the national wild-and-scenic system and the President's report to Congress; (4) the Hood River, Oregon, when a facility impounds or diverts water other than through a dam or diversion existing November 17, 1986; and (5) the Little White Salmon segment from the Willard National Fish Hatchery to the Columbia River, under the same existing-dam-or-diversion condition. (b) These rules do not apply to tributary portions flowing through or bordering Indian reservations. They also do not apply to or affect a river segment designated wild and scenic under section 3 of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act or designated for study under section 5.