An Act to modify the project for the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minn. and Wis., to provide for the abandonment of the 21st Avenue west channel, and for other purposes
PL 87-388 (H.R.7854), enacted 10/04/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-388-OCT. 4, 1961 
[75 ST A T i 
October 4, 1961 
[H. R. 78541 
Public Law 87-388 
AN ACT 
To modify the project for the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin 
to provide for the abandonment of the Twenty-first Avenue West Channel, 
and for other purjwses. 
Duluth-Super i o r 
Harbor, Minn.-Wis. 
33 u s e 540 note. 
74 Stat. 482. 
Description. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the project for 
the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin authorized 
by the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and 
preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for 
other purposes", approved August 30,1935 (49 Stat. 1028, 1035), and 
the project for such harbor authorized by the River and Harbor Act 
of 1960, are each modified to abandon those portions of the Twenty-
first Avenue West Channel more particularly described in section 2 
of this Act, and that portion of the Duluth-Superior Harbor in the 
Twenty-first Avenue West Channel area bounded by harbor lines as 
approved by the Secretary of War on November 17, 1899, more 
particularly described in section 2 of this Act, is hereby declared to 
be a nonnavi^able water of the United States within the meaning of 
the Constitution and laws of the United States. The right to alter, 
amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved. 
SEC. 2. The area to be abandoned referred to in the first section of 
this Act is more particularly described as follows: 
About the northerly 1,250 feet of the 3,300-foot-long Twenty-
first Avenue West Channel authorized by the Act of August 30, 
1935, as described in House Document Numbered 482, Seventy-
second Congress, second session, 1932; and about the northerly 
500 feet of the 2,500-foot-long Twenty-first Avenue West Chan-
nel authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1960, as described 
in House Document Numbered 196, Eighty-sixth Congress, first 
session, 1960; and the harbor area beginning at harbor line point 
40, situated south 62 degrees 25 minutes 49 seconds west, 1,375.00 
feet from a point on city monument line of Garfield Avenue 
produced 1,462.50 feet northerly from a granite city monument, 
situated 25 feet southerly from centerline of Ash Avenue and 25 
feet easterly of centerline of Garfield Avenue; 
thence south 62 degrees 25 minutes 49 seconds west, a distance 
of 793,40 feet to harbor line point 42; 
thence south 27 degrees 34 minutes 11 seconds east, parallel 
with city monument line of Garfield Avenue and 2,168.40 feet 
therefrom, a distance of 654.00 feet to harbor line point 42a, to be 
established; 
thence south 56 degrees 28 minutes 40 seconds east, a distance 
of 620.60 feet to harbor line point 40b, to be established; 
thence south 49 degrees 52 minutes 29 seconds east, a distance 
of 1,300.00 feet to harbor line point 40a; situated on the harbor 
line between points 38 and 40, as approved by Secretary of War, 
November 17,1899; 
thence on said approved harbor line north 27 degrees 34 min-
utes 11 seconds west, for a distance of 2,400.00 feet to harbor line 
point 40, the point of beginning. 
Approved October 4, 1961.