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Section 1 · Sec. 1 ·

What this chapter is about

This part gives the law its name. It has a long name and a short one. Both mean the same law.

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The document says “may be cited asWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1 in the PDF
What the document says

“This Act may be cited as the ``Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025'' or the ``MAPWaters Act of 2025''.”

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, Sec. 1

The section supplies the Act's name. It may be cited either as the Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025 or by the short form, the MAPWaters Act of 2025. The section does nothing else.

What the document actually says

“This Act may be cited as the ``Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025'' or the ``MAPWaters Act of 2025''.”

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, Sec. 1
That sentence, in plain words

This law can go by two names. One is long. One is short. Both point to the same law.

What this is about

The short name is the MAPWaters Act of 2025. A short name is easier to cite. The name does not change what the law does.

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  1. The document itself

    Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, Public Law 119-62, sec. 1, 139 Stat. 1979 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ62/html/PLAW-119publ62.htm

  2. This page

    “Short Title,” Modernizing Access to our Public Waters Act of 2025, section 1. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/modernizing-access-our-public-waters-act-2025/section-1/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.

What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The citation the section supplies, in both the long form and the short form.

Nothing else. A short title section states a name and does nothing more.

A short title carries no duty and changes no other law. Every substantive provision of this Act is in the sections that follow.