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<br />3 . <br /> <br />Third, commercial navigation can be any "customary <br />mode" of trade or travel, and does not require <br />interstate commerce. See United States v. Holt <br />State Bank, 270 U.S. 49 (1926); United States v. <br />Oreaon, 295 U.S. 1 (1935); Utah Division of State <br />Lands v. United States, 107 S.Ct. 2318 (1987); <br />Phillips Petroleum v. Mississippi, 108 S.Ct. 791 <br />(1988). <br />Incidents of the Doctrine <br />There are three major legal ramifications when a <br />watercourse meets the legal test for being <br />navigable for the purposes of title. First, <br />unless the United States has made a transfer to a <br />private party or a reservation for a specific <br />purpose, the state receives by implication title <br />to the bed of the watercourse up to the mean <br />highwater mark. See qenerallv Utah Division of <br />State Lands v. United States, 107 S.Ct. 2318 <br />(1987). Second, the concept of title navigability <br />defines the basic reach of the navigation <br />servitude -- the rule of no compensation that <br />allows the federal government to affect adversely <br />private property without payment under the Fifth <br />Amendment. The servitude extends t9 projects that <br />affect watercourses navigable for title and, if <br />Congress expressly so provides, to nonnavigable <br />tributaries where there is a reasonable <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />eJ <br /> <br />4 <br />