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[CITE: 33USC595a]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
           CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--ACQUISITION OF LAND AND MATERIALS
 
Sec. 595a. Compensation for taking or condemnation of property 
        for public improvements; fair market value; partial taking; 
        effective date
        
    In all cases where real property shall be taken by the United States 
for the public use in connection with any improvement of rivers, 
harbors, canals, or waterways of the United States, and in all 
condemnation proceedings by the United States to acquire lands or 
easements for such improvements, the compensation to be paid for real 
property taken by the United States above the normal high water mark of 
navigable waters of the United States shall be the fair market value of 
such real property based upon all uses to which such real property may 
reasonably be put, including its highest and best use, any of which uses 
may be dependent upon access to or utilization of such navigable waters. 
In cases of partial takings of real property, no depreciation in the 
value of any remaining real property shall be recognized and no 
compensation shall be paid for any damages to such remaining real 
property which result from loss of or reduction of access from such 
remaining real property to such navigable waters because of the taking 
of real property or the purposes for which such real property is taken. 
The compensation defined herein shall apply to all acquisitions of real 
property after December 31, 1970, and to the determination of just 
compensation in any condemnation suit pending on December 31, 1970.

(Pub. L. 91-611, title I, Sec. 111, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1821.)
