33 U.S.C. § 664 — General duties as to plans for protection of navigation
submitted 133 years ago by ch. 183 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 157 words · no verdicts yet
The commission must develop plans to improve, deepen, and protect the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems. The plans must address mining debris and other causes, aim to restore navigability toward its 1860 condition, and allow hydraulic mining only if it does not harm the rivers or nearby land.
The commission must develop and adopt plans based on examinations and surveys completed before March 1, 1893, plus any additional examinations and surveys it considers necessary. The plans must improve navigation on all rivers in the systems, deepen their channels, and protect their banks. They must address encroachment and damage from mining debris, natural erosion, and other causes; aim, as far as practical and as commerce and navigation require, to restore the rivers’ navigability to its 1860 condition; and allow hydraulic mining, as that term is understood in California, if doing so will not harm the rivers’ navigability or adjacent land.
It shall be the duty of said commission to mature and adopt such plan or plans, from examinations and surveys made prior to March 1, 1893, and from such additional examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary, as will improve the navigability of all the rivers comprising said systems, deepen their channels, and protect their banks. Such plan or plans shall be matured with a view of making the same effective as against the encroachment of and damage from debris resulting from mining operations, natural erosion, or other causes, with a view of restoring, as near as practicable and the necessities of commerce and navigation demand, the navigability of said rivers to the condition existing in 1860, and permitting mining by the hydraulic process, as the term is understood in said State, to be carried on, provided the same can be accomplished, without injury to the navigability of said rivers or the lands adjacent thereto.
Source credit: (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 4, 27 Stat. 507.)
- 1893Enacted · Act of Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183 · 27 Stat. 507
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