PUBLIC LAW 100-676—NOV. 17, 1988 102 STAT. 4039

requirements set out in subsection (b) of this section, or if work in
connection with any activity permitted in subsection (b) is not
commenced within 5 years after issuance of such permits, then the
declaration of non-navigability for such area or part thereof shall
eipire.

SEC. 99. DECLAMATION OF NONNAVIGABIUTY FOE PORTIONS OF CONEY 33 USC 59y

ISLAND AND GRAYESEND BAY, NEW YORK.

(a) AIEA To BK DBCIAMED NON-NAVIGABLE; PUBLIC INTEREST.—-
Unless the Secretary finds, after consultation with local and re-
gional public officials (including local and regional public planning
organizations), that the proposed projects to be undertaken within
the boundaries in the portions of Coney Island Creek and Gravesend
Bay, New York, described below, are not in the public interest then,
subject to subsections (b) and (c) of this section, those portions of
such Creek and Bay, bounded and described as follows, are declared
to be non-navigable waters of the United States:

Beginning at the comer formed by the intersection of the
Westerly One of Cropsey Avenue, and the Northernmost
United States Pierhead Line of Coney Island Creek.

Running thence south 12 degrees 41 minutes 03 seconds E and
along the westerly line of Cropsey Avenue, 98.72 feet to the
northerly channel line as shown on Corps of Engineers Map
Numbered F. 150 and on Survey by Rogers and Giollorenzo
Numbered 13959 dated October 31,1986.

Running thence in a westerly direction and along the said
northerly channel line the foEowing bearings and distances:
South 48 degrees 59 minutes 27 seconds west, 118.77 feet;
south 37 degrees 07 minutes 01 seconds west, 232.00 feet; south
23 degrees. 17 minutes 10 seconds west, 430.03 feet; south 31
degrees 25 minutes 46 seconds west, 210.95 feet; south 79 de-
grees 22 minutes 49 seconds west, 244.18 feet; north 55 degrees
00 minutes 29 seconds west, 183.10 feet; north 41 degrees 47
minutes 04 seconds west, 315.16 feet;

North 41 degrees 17 minutes 43 seconds west, 492.47 feet to
the said Pierhead Line; thence north 73 degrees 58 minutes 40
seconds west and along said pierhead line, 2,665.25 feet to the
intersection of the United States bulkhead line;

Thence north 0 degree 19 minutes 35 seconds west and along
the United States Bulkhead line 1,138.50 feet to the intersection
of the westerly prolongation of the center line of 26th Avenue,
Thence north. 58 degrees 25 minutes 06 seconds east and along
the center line of said 26th Avenue, 2,320.85 feet to the westerly
line of Cropsey Avenue, then southeasterly and along the
southerly line of Cropsey Avenue the following bearings and
distances:

South 31 degrees 34 minutes 54 seconds east, 4,124.59 feet;
and

South 12 degrees 41 minutes 03 seconds east, 710.74 feet to the
point or place of beginning.

Coordinates and bearings are in the system as established by the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for the Borough of Brook-
lyn. The Secretary shall make the public interest determination
separately for each proposed project, using reasonable discretion,
within 150 days after submission of appropriate plans for each
proposed project