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Code · U.S. Code · Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS · CHAPTER 1— NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY · SUBCHAPTER II— WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME · § 59n–1

§ 59n–1. Caven Point, New Jersey

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That portion of the Hudson River in the New York Bay consisting of— all that piece or parcel of land, containing 120.54 acres, situate, lying and being in the city of Jersey City, Hudson County, State of New Jersey, upon or around that certain lot or piece of land known as the Caven Point Area; and all that piece or parcel of land, containing 18 acres more or less, situate on the northwesterly side of New Jersey State Highway Route 185, more particularly described in the Congressional Record dated March 11, 1986 , pages S2446–2447, is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States, except for the purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act [ 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.].
( Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1118 , Nov. 17, 1986 , 100 Stat. 4237 .)
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