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 766 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 474-NOV. 19, 1941 [55 STAT. of the remaining one-fourth of such cost in any State containing unappropriated and unreserved public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, individual and tribal, exceeding 5 per centum of the total area of all lands therein, equal to the percentage that the area of such lands in such State is of its total area. Appropriation au- (b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, during the con- 6 F. R. 2617. tinuance of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941, the sum of $25,000,000, which shall, after the enactment of this Act, be allocated by the Federal Works Administrator to States for projects within such States without regard to the apportionment 42 Stt. c217. provisions of section 21 of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, and shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to supplement other Federal highway funds now or hereafter available for use for projects for the recon- struction and replacement of critically deficient bridges and the cor- rection of other critical deficiencies in the strategic network of highways. Action upon proj- (C) Upon apportionment or allocation to the States of the sums etastes.ubmitted by authorized to be appropriated by this section, the State highway departments may submit projects, and such projects shall be acted upon and may be approved, in the same manner and with like effect as in the case of projects submitted for approval in accordance with 49 Stat. 1519. the provisions of subsection (b) of the first section of the Highway 23U...2C. Act approved June 16, 1936. SEC. 5. REAPPORTIONMENT OF FEDERAL HIGHWAY FUNDs. - Federal funds apportioned to the States prior to December 31, 1941, for expend- iture on the system of Federal-aid highways, on secondary or feeder roads, and for the elimination of hazards to life at railroad grade crossings in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, which have not on that date been obligated by the State shall if not so obligated on or before June 30, 1943, be immediately reapportioned among the States in accordance with the provisions of said Act, as amended and supplemented: roviso. Provided, That any State or States which have not so obligated such apportioned funds on June 30, 1943, shall not be entitled to share in the reapportionment provided for by this section. Construction and SEC. 6. ACCESS RoADs. - The Commissioner of Public Roads is Improvement. authorized to provide for the construction and improvement of access roads (including bridges, tubes and tunnels thereon) to military and naval reservations, to defense industries and defense-industry sites, and to the sources of raw materials when such roads are certified to the Federal Works Administrator as important to the national defense by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, and for replacing existing highways and highway connections that are shut off from general public use by necessary closures or restrictions Rights-of-way. at military and naval reservations and defense-industry sites. The acquisition of new or additional rights-of-way necessary for such projects may, to the extent determined by the Federal Works Admin- istrator, be included as part of the construction of such projects and Federal funds shall be available to pay the cost of such acquisition. Appropriation For carrying out the purpose of this section there is hereby author- aPttp.i821. ized to be appropriated during the continuance of the emergency 6F. .2617. declared by the President on May 27, 1941, the sum of $150,000,000, which shall be available, without regard to apportionment among the roiso. several States, for paying all or any part of the cost thereof: Pro- vided, however, That in determining the expenditure of the funds under this section due consideration shall be given to projects for such roads in States which have heretofore expended their own funds for

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