What US Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act 1899 Section 10 - Army Corps of Engineers Permit for Obstruction or Alteration of Navigable Waters requires
The Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 (33 USC 401-467, enacted 3 March 1899, 30 Stat. 1151) is the oldest federal environmental law in the United States and remains the principal statute governing physical alteration of navigable waters. Section 10 (33 USC 403) prohibits the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorised by Congress to the navigable capacity of any waters of the United States, and prohibits the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structure in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, or any excavation or fill, without authorisation from the Secretary of the Army acting through the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Section 13 (33 USC 407, the Refuse Act) further prohibits discharge of refuse matter into navigable waters. Permits are administered by USACE district offices via Nationwide Permits (NWP), Regional General Permits (RGP) or Individual Permits (IP). Criminal penalties under Section 12 (33 USC 406) include fines up to USD 25,000/day and imprisonment up to one year for misdemeanour violations. Section 10 remains operative for navigable-in-fact waters even where post-Sackett WOTUS jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act has narrowed.
Pillar: Water & Environmental Resources · Authority: US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Regulatory Programme; codified at 33 USC 401 et seq. · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/33/403
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- Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899, sections 9-15, codified at 33 U.S.C. 401-415 (3 March 1899, 30 Stat. 1151) - Section 10 (33 USC 403) prohibits obstruction of navigable waters without USACE permit
- 33 CFR Parts 320-332 - US Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Programme: 320 general regulatory policies, 322 Section 10 permits, 325 processing of Department of Army permits, 332 compensatory mitigation for losses of aquatic resources
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