Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§678 Modification and revocation of permit to mine
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 14— - CALIFORNIA DEBRIS COMMISSION › § 678
Summary
The commission may cut back a hydraulic mining permit when rivers or the mine owners’ or government’s holding and settling facilities cannot handle the waste. It may cancel the permit until it says otherwise to protect rivers or if the tax under section 683 is unpaid 30 days after it is due.
Full Legal Text
Title 33, §678
Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The said commission may, at any time when the condition of the navigable rivers or when the capacities of all impounding and settling facilities erected by mine owners or such as may be provided by Government authority require same, modify the order granting the privilege to mine by the hydraulic mining process so as to reduce the amount thereof to meet the capacities of the facilities then in use; or, if actually required in order to protect the navigable rivers from damage or in case of failure to pay the tax prescribed by section 683 of this title within thirty days after same becomes due, may revoke same until the further notice of the commission.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1934—Act June 19, 1934, inserted “or in case of failure to pay the tax prescribed by section 683 of this title within thirty days after same becomes due”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 678
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73