PUBLIC LAW 96-520—DEC. 12, 1980 Public Law 96-520 96th Congress
94 STAT. 3033
An Act To provide that a certain portion of Lake Erie shall be declared nonnavigable.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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: All that piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the city of Buffalo, County of Erie, State of New York, being part of outer lots 2,4, 6,8,10,12, and 14, 3, 5,7, 9,11, and 15, Buffalo Village, township 11, range 8 of the Holland Land Company's survey and also being part of the New York State Mile Strip Reservation, lots 4, 5,14, and 15, and the abandoned rights-of-way of Georgia Street (66 feet wide), Erie Street (99 feet wide) and River Street (60 feet wide), and Genesee Street (99 feet wide): Beginning at the point of intersection of the northerly right-ofway line of Erie Street (99 feet wide) with the westerly blue line of the former Erie Canal, now the westerly line of P.S.C. grade crossing elimination case numbered 5472; thence south 60 degrees 59 minutes 41 seconds west along said northerly right-of-way of Erie Street, 200.19 feet to a point; thence continuing along said northerly right-of-way, the following courses and distances, south 14 degrees 39 minutes 13 seconds west 6.89 feet to a point; thence south 61 degrees 00 minutes 11 seconds west 35.15 feet to a point of curvature; thence along a curve to the left of 195.0 feet radius an ar0 distance of 154.86 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 15 degrees 30 minutes 00 seconds west 333.34 feet to a point of curvature; thence along a curve to the right of 273.0 feet radius, an arc distance of 367.28 feet to a point of tangency, said point being in the northerly right-of-way of the Marina Access Road; thence continuing along said right-of-way line, the following courses and distances north 87 degrees 25 minutes 00 seconds west 241.90 feet to a point of curvature; thence along a curve to the right of 1,493.00 feet radius an arc distance of 141.14 feet to a point of reverse curvature; thence along a curve to the left of 487.26 feet radius an arc distance of 139.90 feet to a point of tangency; thence south 81 degrees 32 minutes 59 seconds west 59.44 feet to a point; thence north 08 degrees 43 minutes 10 seconds west along a line 266.54 feet to a point on the waters edge of the Erie Basin as now existing;
Dec. 12, 1980 [H.R. 8228] Lake Erie, nonnavigable portion. 33 USC 59q.
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