To deauthorize a water resources project at Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut.

Bill: 115-hr-5432
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4]
Introduced: 2018-04-05
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Connecticut

Hydrology and hydrography

Navigation, waterways, harbors
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill deauthorizes the portion of a dredging project for navigation at Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut, that is upstream of the Congress Street Bridge on the Pequonnock River, thereby allowing the bridge to be replaced with a fixed (not movable) bridge.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5432 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 5, 2018 Mr. Himes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To deauthorize a water resources project at Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut.

1. Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut Beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, that portion of the project for navigation, Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut, authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 18, 1878 (20 Stat. 158), and as modified by the Rivers and Harbors Acts of August 11, 1888 (25 Stat. 401), March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. 1122), June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 633), and July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 919), and lying upstream of a line commencing at point 627942.09 N, 879709.18 E thence running southwesterly about 125 feet to a point 627832.03 N, 879649.91 E is no longer authorized.