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Synonyms for navigable

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Synonyms for navigable

capable of being passed, traversed, or crossed

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Words related to navigable

able to be sailed on or through safely

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'This is derived from the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations (NigCARS) Part 12.1.7.1.3.1 which stipulates that no person or organisation shall put up a structure (permanent or temporary) within the navigable airspace of Nigeria unless such a person or organisation is a holder of Aviation Height Clearance Certificate granted under this regulation.
Specifically, under the proposed rule Clean Water Act jurisdiction would apply to traditional navigable waters, tributaries to those waters, certain ditches, certain lakes, and ponds, impoundments of jurisdictional waters, and wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional waters would be federally regulated.
No, says Thurston, the boat was needed because it's the land commissioner's duty to oversee navigable waterways and submerged land and the Legislature in 2013 gave the land commissioner authority to take legal action to remove debris from navigable waterways.
The Clean Water Act protects "waters of the United States" through a number of federal programs, including the Section 404 permit program regulating the discharge of dredged or fill material into "navigable waters."
Following a bench trial, the district court found that rainwater and groundwater were leaching arsenic from the coal ash in the landfill and settling ponds, polluting the groundwater, which carried the arsenic into navigable waters.
He said there are two criteria for admiralty jurisdiction: a disputed action must occur on navigable waters, and the activity must be connected to traditional maritime activity.
Army Corps of Engineers have jurisdiction to regulate discharges and other activities related to "navigable waters," which the Clean Water Act defines as "waters of the United States" (WOTUS).
of the nation's navigable rivers including "adjacent
The Indian cabinet approved the shipping ministry proposal to enact Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Bill 2016, a proposed law to empower the high court more in respect to claims associated with transport by sea and navigable waterways.
AOGA (Alaska Oil and Gas Association) Environmental Counsel Joshua Kindred summarized Kennedy's opinion: "What he basically said is, 'I'm not for unfettered discretion and absolute jurisdictions, but I do think [the EPA] has some discretion'; and he used the term 'significant nexus.' He sort of established they'll have jurisdiction if there's a significant nexus to traditional navigable waters."
The CWA prohibits certain discharges to "navigable waters" without a federal permit, and defines "navigable waters" as "waters of the United States" which USACE and EPA originally interpreted to mean traditional navigable waters that could be used in interstate commerce.
It is worth remembering that in December 2014 Nigel Farage did not attend a "Meet the Ukip leader" event at Port Talbot, claiming it took him six and a quarter hours to travel from London on the M4 (twice as long as he planned), on a road he described at the time as "not navigable due to congestion".
The Hawkesbury is also navigable for 110 kilometres and offers something for everyone depending in which season you are visiting--in Summer it teams with holiday-makers, jetskis, and cruising boats while in Winter, it quietens right down to a peaceful estuary.