Us Code § 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine
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§ 59a. Back Cove, Portland, Maine
(a) Portion declared nonnavigable
That 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 abandoned
That 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 section
The 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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