California § 5093.53 - Those rivers or segments of rivers included in the system shall be classified as
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§ 5093.53. Those rivers or segments of rivers included in the system shall be classified as
Those rivers or segments of rivers included in the system shall be classified as one of the following: (a) Wild rivers, which are those rivers or segments of rivers that are free of impoundments and generally inaccessible except by trail, with watersheds or shorelines essentially primitive and waters unpolluted. (b) Scenic rivers, which are those rivers or segments of rivers that are free of impoundments, with shorelines or watersheds still largely primitive and shorelines largely undeveloped, but accessible in places by roads. (c) Recreational rivers, which are those rivers or segments of rivers that are readily accessible by road or railroad, that may have some development along their shorelines, and that may have undergone some impoundment or diversion in the past.
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