To provide for the standardization, consolidation, and publication of data relating to public outdoor recreational use of Federal waterways among Federal land and water management agencies, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2.
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Federal waterway is defined
The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 2 in the PDF
What the document says
“The term ``Federal waterway'' means waters managed by 1 or more of the relevant Secretaries.”
Defines Federal waterway as waters managed by one or more of the relevant Secretaries. The Act does not define waters, and the word relevant is not used in the definition of Secretaries below.
What the document actually says
“The term ``Federal waterway'' means waters managed by 1 or more of the relevant Secretaries.”
That sentence, in plain words
This term covers water that the Secretaries run. One of them is enough. It need not be both.
What this is about
The Secretaries are named later in this part. The law does not say what counts as waters. Section 7 says the law does not change what navigable waters means.
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