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33 U.S.C. § 59a

U.S. CodeFederal
Back Cove, Portland, Maine
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Title
33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter
CH1
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17

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(a) Portion declared nonnavigableThat 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 abandonedThat 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 sectionThe right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved. (Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)

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