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[75 Stat. 816]
PUBLIC LAW 87-000—MMMM. DD, 1961
[75 Stat. 816]

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PUBLIC LAW 87-388-OCT. 4, 1961

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Public Law 87-388 October 4, 1961 [H. R. 78541

Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minn.-Wis.

33 USC 540 note. 74 Stat. 482.

Description.

AN ACT To modify the project for the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin to provide for the abandonment of the Twenty-first Avenue West Channel, and for other purjwses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the project for the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin authorized by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1028, 1035), and the project for such harbor authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1960, are each modified to abandon those portions of the Twentyfirst Avenue West Channel more particularly described in section 2 of this Act, and that portion of the Duluth-Superior Harbor in the Twenty-first Avenue West Channel area bounded by harbor lines as approved by the Secretary of W a r on November 17, 1899, more particularly described in section 2 of this Act, is hereby declared to be a nonnavi^able water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved. SEC. 2. The area to be abandoned referred to in the first section of this Act is more particularly described as follows: About the northerly 1,250 feet of the 3,300-foot-long Twentyfirst Avenue West Channel authorized by the Act of August 30, 1935, as described in House Document Numbered 482, Seventysecond Congress, second session, 1932; and about the northerly 500 feet of the 2,500-foot-long Twenty-first Avenue West Channel authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1960, as described in House Document Numbered 196, Eighty-sixth Congress, first session, 1960; and the harbor area beginning at harbor line point 40, situated south 62 degrees 25 minutes 49 seconds west, 1,375.00 feet from a point on city monument line of Garfield Avenue produced 1,462.50 feet northerly from a granite city monument, situated 25 feet southerly from centerline of Ash Avenue and 25 feet easterly of centerline of Garfield Avenue; thence south 62 degrees 25 minutes 49 seconds west, a distance of 793,40 feet to harbor line point 42; thence south 27 degrees 34 minutes 11 seconds east, parallel with city monument line of Garfield Avenue and 2,168.40 feet therefrom, a distance of 654.00 feet to harbor line point 42a, to be established; thence south 56 degrees 28 minutes 40 seconds east, a distance of 620.60 feet to harbor line point 40b, to be established; thence south 49 degrees 52 minutes 29 seconds east, a distance of 1,300.00 feet to harbor line point 40a; situated on the harbor line between points 38 and 40, as approved by Secretary of War, November 17, 1899; thence on said approved harbor line north 27 degrees 34 minutes 11 seconds west, for a distance of 2,400.00 feet to harbor line point 40, the point of beginning. Approved October 4, 1961.