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Colorado’s Tipton again tells Uncle Sam to keep his mitts off of water rights
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Colorado 3rd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton has tried twice before to bar federal agencies from pressuring farmers, ranchers and a host of others into turning over their privately held water rights in order to secure federal permits and leases. Tipton’s most recent effort sat in the Senate and never got a vote. Maybe the…