§ 59a. — Back Cove, Portland, Maine.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC59a]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 1--NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER II--WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME
Sec. 59a. Back Cove, Portland, Maine
(a) Portion declared nonnavigable
That portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying southerly of a
line across the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove twenty-
five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back
Cove, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within
the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
(b) Portion abandoned
That portion of the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove
lying southerly of a line across the channel twenty-five hundred feet
upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, a distance of
approximately thirty-five hundred feet, is abandoned.
(c) Preservation of right to alter, amend or repeal section
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly
reserved.
(Pub. L. 85-126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)
