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 79TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CH. 106-MAY 3,1945 agency or governmental corporation of the United States, $100,000 to be derived from the administrative funds provided under the Act of July 11, 1916 as amended or supplemented (23 U. S. C. 21), or as otherwise provided. For surveys in connection with and the construction of the Inter- American Highway, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved December 26, 1941 (Public Law 375), and necessary expenses incident thereto without regard to section 3709, Revised Statutes, $1,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of the appropriation made in this paragraph for use in any cooperating country shall be available for obligation or expenditure unless said cooperating country executes a written agreement that it will impose no restrictions on the use of the highway, nor levy directly or indirectly any tax or charge for such use, by traffic or vehicles from any other country that do not apply with equal force to the like use of the highway by traffic or vehicles of the cooperating country. FEDERAL-AID SECONDARY OR FEEDER ROADS For secondary or feeder roads, including farm-to-market roads, rural-free-delivery mail roads, and public-school bus routes, $3,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, which sum is a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1942, by section 2 of the Act approved September 5, 1940 (Public Law 780). ELIMINATION OF GRADb CROSSINGS For the elimination of hazards to life at railroad grade crossings, including the separation or protection of grades at crossings, the reconstruction of existing railroad grade-crossing structures, and the relocation of highways to eliminate grade crossings, $6,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, which sum is a part of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1941, by section 3 of the Act approved June 8, 1938. STRATEGIC HIGHWAY NETWORK For carrying out projects to correct critical deficiencies in lines of the strategic network of highways and bridges, in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Defense Highway Act of 1941 (23 U. S . C . 104), $10,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available during the continuance of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941. 39 Stat. 355. 42 Stat. 217 . Surveys and con- struction. 55 Stat. 860. 41U.S.. .5. Agreements by co- operating countries. 54 Stat. 868. 52 Stat.634. 55 tat. 765. 23 U. 8. 0., Supp. IV, i 104. 55 stat. 1647 . 50 U. S. C., Supp. IV, app., note prec. §1. ACCESS ROADS For the construction, maintenance, and improvement of access roads and for replacing existing highways and highway connections as described in, and in accordance with the provisions of sections 6 and 9 of the Defense Highway Act of 1941, as amended by the Act approved July 2, 1942 (23 U. S. C. 106), $35,000,000, to be immediately available and to remain available during the continuance of the emergency declared by the President on May 27, 1941. SURVEYS AND PLANS For advance engineering surveys and plans for future development of the strategic network of highways and bypasses around and extension into and through municipalities and metropolitan areas, 55 Stat. 766, 767: 56 Stat. 662. 23 U. S. O., Supp. IV, I§ 106, 109. 55 Stat. 1647. 50 U. 8. C., Supp. IV, app., note prec. §1. 59 STAT.]

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