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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 59q. Erie Basin, Buffalo Harbor, New York

Statutory text

That portion of the Erie Basin in the Buffalo Harbor lying within the following described area is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 96–520 § 1 · 94 Stat. 3033

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 59q

    (Pub. L. 96–520, § 1, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3033.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–520, § 1, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3033.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The following described area, referred to in text, refers to the metes and bounds description of that portion of the Erie Basin in the Buffalo Harbor set out in the second paragraph of section 1 of Pub. L. 96–520, , 94 Stat. 3033–3035, which is not classified to the Code.

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–520, § 1, , 94 Stat. 3033.)

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