{"data":{"id":"us/33-u.s.c.-59a","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"33 U.S.C. § 59a","heading":"Back Cove, Portland, Maine","body":"(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.","path":["Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS","CHAPTER 1—NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc33@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:59:09Z","sha256":"1a4442d87bf944829d371ff009953c2aeff5f53660053564595de89c15730d2a","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/33-u.s.c.-59","next":"us/33-u.s.c.-59b"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}