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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 332, 333-JULY 31, 1945 (1) Not to exceed with respect to livestock and livestock products, $595,000,000, (2) not to exceed with respect to wheat and wheat products, $190,000,000; and (3) not to exceed with respect to butterfat and butter, $100,000,000: Provided, That the amounts authorized to be expended pursuant to section 1 of the Act of June 23, 1945 (Public Law 88, Seventy-ninth Congress), for subsidy payments on meat, butter, and flour shall be reduced correspondingly. Approved July 31, 1945. [CHAPTER 333] AN ACT To amend section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes', approved July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes", approved July 13, 1943. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the case of each and every State which, prior to January 1, 1947, shall have constructed or acquired any toll bridges, including interstate toll bridges, serving the approved system of Federal-aid highways, and which has caused or, prior to January 1, 1947, shall cause any such toll bridge or toll bridges to be made free, the Federal Works Admin- istrator shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay out of the regular and secondary Federal-aid road funds apportioned to such State not to exceed 50 per centum of such amount as may be approved by the Federal Works Administrator as the current reasonable value of the physical property, exclusive of rights-of-way, of any such bridge, or not to exceed 50 per centum of the bonds or other obligations created and issued for the construction of such bridge which shall remain unpaid and outstanding, or such percentage of the amount by which such outstanding bonds or other obligations shall exceed any funds accumulated or provided for their amortization, on the date such bridge is made free, whichever shall be least: Provided, That no pay- ment of Federal funds shall be made on account of any such bridge which was not constructed in accordance with plans and specifications which would meet the standards required under the Federal Htighwtay Act at the time such bridge was constructedl: Provided furthcer, That no such payment shall be made which will exceed 50 per centum of the current reasonable value of the physical properties of any such bridge, nor shall such payment in the case of any bridge which was constructed or acquired with the aid of Federal funds or with the aid of a grant from the Federal Government exceed 50 per centum of the current reasonable value of the physical properties of such bridge which remains after deducting therefrom the share of cost or of grant already paid by the Federal Government, or shall not exceed 50 per centum of the bonds or other obligations created and issued for the construction of such bridge which shall remain unpaid and outstanding, or such percentage of the amount by which such out- standing bonds or other obligations shall exceed any funds accumu- lated or provided for their amortization, on the date such bridge is made free, whichever shall be least, and any amount so paid on account of any such bridge from regular Federal-aid road funds shall be used for matching unobligated regular Federal-aid road funds available to the State for expenditure in the improvement of high- ways on the system of Federal-aid highways, and any amount so paid on account of any such bridge from secondary Federal-aid road funds shall be used for matching unobligated secondary Federal-aid road funds available to the State for expenditure in the improvement of secondary or feeder roads. Approved July 31, 1945. Ante, p. 260. Iuly 31, 1945 [H. R. 1691 [Public Law 165] Toll bridges. Payments to States from designated funds. Prohibited pay- ments. limitation on pay- ments. Use of payments from regular Federal- aid road funds. From secondary Federal-aid road funds.

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