Irrigation canals and flowage easements are left out
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 4, Sec. 4.
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Irrigation canals and flowage easements are left out
The document says “shall not”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says
“This section shall not apply to irrigation canals and flowage easements.”
Section 4 does not reach irrigation canals or flowage easements. Neither term is defined in section 2.
What the document actually says
“This section shall not apply to irrigation canals and flowage easements.”
That sentence, in plain words
This part does not cover farm water channels. It does not cover flowage easements.
What this is about
A canal that carries farm water is left out. So is a flowage easement. The law does not say what either term means. The rest of the section still holds.
No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.
Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, Public Law 119-62, sec. 4, 139 Stat. 1980 (2025). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ62/html/PLAW-119publ62.htm
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“Irrigation canals and flowage easements are left out,” Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, section 4, Sec. 4. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/modernizing-access-our-public-waters-act-2025/proposal/sec04-exclusion-irrigation-canals/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).
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