re: HR 391 (Water Access Rights) Passes 5-3 in committee

Well maybe just maybe we could take a page from our neighbors to the west and pass a bill similar to the 1929 law popularly known as the “Small Bill, the law’s major effect was to give some adjoining landowners the royalties from oil and gas under the stream bed. Significantly, the Small Bill declared that it did not impair the rights of the general public and the State in the waters of streams. Thus, along a navigable stream, even if the landowner’s deed includes the bed, and taxes are being paid on the bed, the public retains its right to use it as a navigable stream.

Hope springs eternal