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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 271 -JULY 1, 1941 the manner provided by section 5 of "An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia", approved June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which it is collected; Hereafter when any Capital Transit Company street railway oper- ation shall have been ordered abandoned by the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have ordered the removal of abandoned tracks, the Capital Transit Company shall pay the entire cost of removing such abandoned tracks and regrading the track area, and, if the street or bridge in which the said tracks have been ordered abandoned is not being paved, the Capital Transit Company shall pay the entire cost of paving the abandoned track areas, which cost, however, shall not exceed the cost of repaving such abandoned track areas with the type, character, and thickness of the paving of the adjacent roadway left in place, and, if the roadway of the street or bridge is being paved at the time of removal of said abandoned tracks, the Capital Transit Company shall pay one-half of the actual cost of paving the abandoned track areas, irrespective of whether the paving is of the type, character, and thickness as that existing at the time of said removal. The Commissioners of the District are author- ized to settle in conformity with the principles herein set forth, any claims it now has, or in the future may have, for the paving of abandoned track areas, upon such terms and conditions as to time of payment or payments as the Commissioners may determine; For beginning construction of a grade separation structure at Fourteenth Street and Maine Avenue and Fourteenth Street and East Potomac Park Drive, including plans and specifications, and such temporary construction as may be necessary to handle traffic during the construction of the main structure, and the construction of a low-level bridge across the outlet of the Tidal Basin into the Wash- ington Channel, all connecting driveways, ramps, approach roads, changes in existing streets, roads, park roads, walkways, and so forth, construction of and changes in water and sewer mains, fire- alarm and police-patrol boxes, street and traffic lights, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and the Commission of Fine Arts, $300,000: Provided, That upon com- pletion and approval of such plans the Commissioners are authorized to submit the project as a Federal-aid highway project to the Public Roads Administration under the provisions of the Federal Aid High- way Act of June 8, 1938 (52 Stat. 633), and upon approval of such project by the Public Roads Administration, the Commissioners are authorized to construct such grade-separation structures and perform such necessary incidental work and pay the cost thereof from the District of Columbia appropriations for Federal-aid highway proj- ects and the allocation of funds to the District of Columbia by the Public Roads Administration authorized by the said Federal Aid Highway Act: Providedfurther, That the necessary transfer of juris- diction of public land is authorized and directed under the provisions of the Land Transfer Act of May 20, 1932 (47 Stat. 161): Provided further, That the Commissioners are authorized to employ necessary engineering and other professional services, by contract or otherwise, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, the Classi- fication Act of 1923, as amended, or civil-service requirements; For all necessary expenses for studies, preparation of plans and specifications, surveys and estimates, and for the investigation of 533 20 Stat. 105. D. C. Code 17-604. Abandoned street railway tracks. Removal at expense of Capital Transit Co. Cost of paving. Settlement of claims Grade separation structures, construc- tion. Low-level bridge, Tidal Basin outlet. Proiwos. Submittal as Feder- al-ald highway proj- ect. 23U. .C. I41b. Transfer of jurisdic- tion. 40 U.S .C. 122. Professional serv- ices. 41 .U. C.I5. 42 Stat. 1488. 5U.S.C. 661-674. Pout p. 613. Vehicular crosing, Anoosti BRiver.

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