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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 59w. Norton Basin and Jamaica Bay, New York

Statutory text

The two portions of Norton Basin and Jamaica Bay, New York, that are particularly described in Committee Print 99–58 of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives are hereby declared to be nonnavigable waters of the United States for purposes of the navigation servitude.

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. Upper Mississippi River Management Act of 1986

    Pub. L. 99–662 title XI § 1168 · 100 Stat. 4082

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 59w

    (Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1168, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4259.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1168, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4259.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 1168. NORTON BASIN AND JAMAICA BAY, NEW YORK. The two portions of Norton Basin and Jamaica Bay, New York, that are particularly described in Committee Print 99–58 of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House of Representatives are hereby declared to be nonnavigable waters of the United States for purposes of the navigation servitude.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Public Works and Transportation of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1168, , 100 Stat. 4259.)

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