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      [NOT FOR PUBLICATION--NOT TO BE CITED AS PRECEDENT]
                 United States Court of Appeals
                     For the First Circuit

No. 98-1184

                          UNITED STATES,

                       Plaintiff, Appellee,

                                v.

                         PABLO HERNANDEZ,

                      Defendant, Appellant.
                        __________________

                   JORGE E. RODRIGUEZ, ET AL.,

                      Defendants, Appellees.

           APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                 FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

          [Hon. Hector M. Laffitte, U.S. District Judge]

                              Before

                     Torruella, Chief Judge,
               Boudin and Lipez, Circuit Judges.
                                
                                

     Pablo Hernandez on brief pro se.
     Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney and Isabel Munoz Acosta,
Assistant U.S. Attorney on brief for appellee.

November 16, 1998

            Per Curiam. We have reviewed carefully the record in
    this case, including the briefs of the parties and the opinion
    of the district court.  United States v. Hernandez, 979 F.
    Supp. 70 (D.P.R. 1997). We find no clear error in the
    determination that appellant's houseboat was a permanently
    moored vessel for purposes of the Rivers and Harbors Act and
    thus required a mooring permit from the Army Corps of Engineers
    to remain in La Parguera.  Furthermore, essentially for the
    reasons given by the district court in its opinion, we find no
    abuse of discretion in the decision by the Army Corps of
    Engineers to deny appellant a mooring permit due to
    environmental considerations.  Therefore, the district court
    order granting the government's request for injunctive relief
    is affirmed.  
              Affirmed.  See Loc. R. 27.1.