Potomac River Waterfront Property, Alexandria, Virginia: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 19842 ... December 10, 1970 |
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Adopted Plan Alexandria waterfront ANDREW JACOBS approval approximately Army bill blocks boundary line BROYHILL bulkhead line cent Chairman City Council City of Alexandria cloud Columbia Public Space committee CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Corps of Engineers Department District of Columbia dwelling units east of Fairfax established EVERLY existing Fairfax Street Federal filled flood FUQUA Gadsby Urban Renewal GUDE GURNEE HARTZOG high rise high water mark historic House industrial interest Interior JACOBS January 24 Jones Point King Street legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mayor BEATLEY ment navigable waters navigation servitude nonnavigable Oronoco parcels Park Service PEPCO pierhead line portion Potomac River problem proposed Public Space Utilization RAY BLANTON residential Roos Second Street Space Utilization Act special use permit structures study area tion tourist traffic Union Street units per acre warehouses Washington Street water-oriented commercial waterfront area Waterfront Study zoned
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Page 14 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of the Army; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor...
Page 22 - Commission to determine the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia...
Page 4 - Commission, there was established both a pierhead line and a bulkhead line along the shore of the river from Second Street to the District of Columbia-Maryland boundary line.
Page 22 - SEC. 103. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as relinquishing any right, title, or interest of the United States to the lands lying between the mean high-water mark as it existed January 24, 1791, and the boundary line as described in section...
Page 15 - ... in all or any part of the described area. This declaration shall apply only to portions of the above-described area which are filled or occupied by permanent structures. No such filling or erection of structures in the above-described area shall be commenced until the plans therefor have been approved by the Secretary of the Army who shall, prior to granting such approval, give consideration to all factors affecting the general public interest and the impact of the proposed work on the environment.
Page 5 - ... River, the Anacostia River, Eastern Branch, and Rock Creek, and adjacent lands thereto", approved April 27, 1912 (37 Stat. 93), and in order to facilitate the same, by making equitable adjustments of such claims and controversies between the United States of America and such adverse claimants, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make and accept, on behalf of the United States, by way of compromise when deemed to be in the public interest such conveyances, including deeds of quitclaim...
Page 14 - ... and animaldrawn carts and wagons. It was recognized that free and unobstructed interstate and foreign commerce could be guaranteed only by the exercise of federal jurisdiction and authority over those waters which carried such trade or could be made to do so. The Federal Courts proceeded to define navigable waters of the United States under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. By court decisions, a navigable water of the United States...
Page 10 - Nothing contained in this section shall affect the boundary line between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia as the same was established or may be subsequently established under the provisions of title I of the Act of October 31, 1945 (59 Stat. 552) . TITLE III— THE DISTRICT COUNCIL PART I — CREATION OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL CREATION AND MEMBERSHIP SEC.
Page 22 - Statute 552, 554) the boundary between the District of Columbia and the State of Virginia was established along the pierhead line, rather than the low water mark of 1936.
Page 14 - ... with the United States Government pier-head line; thence following said pier-head line easterly and southerly to its intersection with the northwesterly line of Bryant Street produced northeasterly; thence southwesterly along said northwesterly line of Bryant Street produced to the point of beginning, is hereby declared to be nonnavigable waters within the meaning of the laws of the United States, and the consent of Congress is hereby given for the filling In of all or any part of the described...