33 USC § 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine

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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s59a"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "59a"
section_name: "Back Cove, Portland, Maine"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)"
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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.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)