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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 59q - Erie Basin, Buffalo Harbor, New York

## Text

That portion of the Erie Basin in the Buffalo Harbor lying within the following described area 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.

(Pub. L. 96–520, § 1, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3033.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextThe following described area, referred to in text, refers to the metes and bounds description of that portion of the Erie Basin in the Buffalo Harbor set out in the second paragraph of section 1 of Pub. L. 96–520, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3033–3035, which is not classified to the Code.