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Volume 84

Public Law 91–649

To change the name of certain projects for navigation and other purposes on the Arkansas River.

Approved January 5, 1971

Statutory text

AN ACT

To change the name of certain projects for navigation and other purposes on the Arkansas River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That

(a)

the Arkansas

McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation system.

Designation.

River navigation and comprehensive development project authorized by the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes”, approved June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1215), as amended and supplemented, shall be known and designated hereafter as the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River navigation system.

(b)

Lock and dam number 1, Arkansas, on the Arkansas Post Canal approximately two thousand feet from the White River shall be known and designated hereafter as the Norrell lock and dam.

(c)

The canal connecting the White River at river mile 10 with the Arkansas River at river mile 41.6 shall be known and designated here-after as the Arkansas Post Canal.

(d)

The water area on the Arkansas River, main channel, created by the cutoff at Boyds Point and a closure at the upstream end of the former channel, at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, shall be known and designated hereafter as Lake Langhofer.

(e)

Lock and dam number 7, Arkansas River at Little Rock, Arkansas, shall be known and designated hereafter as Murray lock and dam.

(f)

Lock and dam number 8, Arkansas River at Conway, Arkansas, shall be known and designated hereafter as Toad Suck Ferry lock and dam.

(g)

Lock and dam number 10, Arkansas River in the vicinity of Russellville and Dardanelle, Arkansas, shall be known and designated hereafter as Dardanelle lock and dam, and the reservoir created by Dardanelle Dam shall be known and designated hereafter as Lake Dardanelle.

(h)

The public overlook on the left descending river bank approximately one thousand six hundred feet upstream of Dardanelle Dam shall be known and designated hereafter as Caudle Overlook.

Sec. 2.

Any law, regulation, map, document, or record of the United States in which any project, lock, dam, reservoir, canal, or overlook named in this Act is referred to, shall be held to refer to such project, lock, dam, reservoir, canal, or overlook by the name designated for it by this Act.

Approved January 5, 1971.

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