navigable waters

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navigable waters

Bodies of water that can be traversed by trade or transport ships. Unless you want us to get shipwrecked on the shallows, we need to plan a route through navigable waters.

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navigable waters. To paraphrase Sir Isaac Newton's first law of

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In addressing the "point source" requirement of the Clean Water Act, the district court was satisfied that the landfill and ponds were point sources because the rainwater and groundwater seeped through the coal ash, leaching arsenic into groundwater and ultimately into navigable waters.

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* Traditional navigable waters, interstate waters, the territorial seas, and tributaries and impoundments of such waters.

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trade and commerce on lakes and navigable waters connecting those lakes.

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EPA claimed that a location used as habitat for migratory birds fell within their jurisdiction--known as the "migratory bird rule"--including remote ponds with little connection to navigable waters. The court ruled that this approach could not be reconciled with the legislative authority for regulating navigable waters under the CWA.

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U.S., and that the final rule contained some provisions related to allowable distances from navigable waters which were not included in the proposed rule, so those provisions were not subject to public comments.

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In Rapanos, the Supreme Court considered whether the wetlands "adjacent" to tributaries of "traditional navigable waters" were WOUS.

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The act, which allows regulation of ''navigable waters,'' was passed under Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, so ''navigable waters'' have been understood to be those suitable for transporting people and products between the states.