Sentences with phrase «under navigable waters»

Florida law provides that the state owns all submerged land under navigable waters and the land between the low tide line and the mean high - tide line.

Among them: the EPA is barred from cutting dairy CO2 emissions and from regulating farm ponds under navigable water legislation, and neither the greater sage grouse or its smaller cousin, the Gunnison sage grouse, can be officially listed as endangered until more studies are undertaken.

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Rep. Faso Vote Record Tracking Rep. Faso in the Age of Trump fivethirtyeight.com Pesticides Regulations — Vote Passed (256 - 165, 9 Not Voting) The bill would generally prohibit EPA and states from requiring that entities applying pesticides near navigable waters must first obtain a permit under the Clean Water Act, if the application is authorized under -LSB-...]

There is excepted from the operation of sections 3 and 4 all of the oil and gas mineral rights for lands beneath the navigable waters that are located within the expanded offshore State seaward boundaries established under this Act.

«UNITED STATES SENATE REPORT: From Preventing Pollution of Navigable and Interstate Waters to Regulating Farm Fields, Puddles and Dry Land: A Senate Report on the Expansion of Jurisdiction Claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Water Act» (PDF), United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, September 20, 2016.

Anyone who works on navigable water and contributes to the work of vessel for at least 30 % of their work time in navigable water are usually protected under The Jones Act.

Under the LHWCA, if you're disabled while working in navigable United States waters or in adjoining areas used to load, unload, repair, or build vessels, you are entitled to compensation, medical care, and vocational rehabilitation.

Under the CWA, businesses and other entities must obtain a permit through the EPA's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program before releasing pollutants from a point source into navigable waters.

«When the death of a person is caused by the wrongful act, negligence, default, or breach of contract or warranty of any person, including those occurring on navigable waters, and the event would have entitled the person injured to maintain an action and recover damages if death had not ensued, the person or watercraft that would have been liable in damages if death had not ensued shall be liable for damages as specified in this act notwithstanding the death of the person injured, although death was caused under circumstances constituting a felony.»

The successful defense of an oil company in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to recover clean up costs associated with an oil spill upon the navigable waters of the United States.

But if an accident happens on navigable waters, and the plaintiff brings a claim under federal maritime law, a Louisiana jury can award punitive damages, and Louisiana courts then must decide the full...

SCOTUS has decided that an abandoned gravel pit which seasonally filled with water did not constitute «navigable waters» under the Clean Water Act and so would not fall under its regulatory awater did not constitute «navigable waters» under the Clean Water Act and so would not fall under its regulatory aWater Act and so would not fall under its regulatory ambit.