Examples of Interstate waters in a sentence
Interstate waters include all rivers, streams, and lakes which flow across or form part of a state boundary.
Hence, the Alfvén Mach number is an order of magnitude smaller than the thermal one.
The 2015 Rule defined “waters of the United States” to include: • Traditional navigable waters (TNWs) ((a)(1));3 • Interstate waters including interstate wetlands ((a)(2)); • Territorial seas ((a)(3)); • Impoundments of jurisdictional waters ((a)(4)); • Tributaries of the above waters ((a)(5)); • Adjacent waters of the aforementioned waters ((a)(6)); • Similarly situated regional waters found to have a significant nexus ((a)(7)); and • Certain waters with a case-specific significant nexus ((a)(8)).
Interstate waters raise additional issues less relevant to other foundational waters, such as the interstate status of waters crossing tribal boundaries and geographic limits on waters considered interstate.
Interstate waters have been a distinct regulatory category of jurisdictional waters since at least 1977, and the Rule merely retains that status.
Interstate waters that are navigable-in-fact and are part of a highway of commerce will still be jurisdictional under the proposed rule as TNWs. Interstate waters can also qualify as jurisdictional if they qualify for one of the other jurisdictional categories, such as tributaries or lakes and ponds.
Interstate waters are not included as their own category of waters in ORM2 under pre-2015 practice, so the agencies have no existing data for that category of waters under this baseline.
Sec- tion 5 discusses in detail key aspects and challenges of the prototype implementations.
So as not “to exclude any portion of the territorial seas,” the final NWPR distinguished between such waters and traditional navigable waters within a consolidated provision.352 Interstate waters are at an even greater risk of being excluded if treated as a type of traditional navigable water.
Interstate waters, however, were not included in the Navigable Waters Protection Rule definition, creating a significant difference as discussed below.