Volume 69
Public Law 84–212
To declare a certain portion of the waterway (a section of the Acushnet River) in the city of New Bedford and the towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet, Massachusetts, a nonnavigable stream.
Approved August 3, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To declare a certain portion of the waterway (a section of the Acushnet River) in the city of New Bedford and the towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet, Massachusetts, a nonnavigable stream.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the portion of the waterway in the city of New Redford and the towns of Fairhaven and Acushnet lying north of the Coggeshall Street Bridge (north 41 degrees 31 minutes 00 seconds), is hereby declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. Any project heretofore authorized by any Act of Congress, insofar as such project relates to the above-described portions of the Acushnet River section of New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbor, is hereby abandoned. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved August 3, 1955.