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 62 STAT.] 8s0T CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 731, 732-JUNE 29, 1948 without consideration and on behalf of the United States, the southeast quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter of section 9 and the northeast quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter of section 16, township 3 north, range 23 east, of the Indian meridian, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, for the purpose of constructing a dam. Approved June 29, 1948. [CHAPTER 732] AN ACT To amend and supplement the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), as amended and supplemented, to authorize appropriations for continuing the construction of highways, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congressassembled, That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), and all Acts amendatory thereof and sup- plementary thereto, and for continuing the construction and reconstruc- tion of highways in accordance with the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 approved December 20, 1944 (58 Stat. 838), there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $450,000,000 for the fiscalyear ending June 30, 1950, and a like sum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951. The sum herein authorized for each fiscal year shall be available for expenditure as follows: Forty-five per centum for projects on the Federal-aid highway system. Thirty per centum for projects as set forth in paragraph (b) of section 3 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 838), except that for the purposes of this Act and all subsequent Acts con- tinuing the postwar construction and reconstruction of highways in accordance with the provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (1) the term "secondary and feeder roads" and the term "prin- cipal secondary and feeder roads", wherever used in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, shall include county and township roads; and (2) in selecting county and township roads on which funds are to be expended, the State highway departments shall cooperate with town- ship trustees and other appropriate local road officials; and Twenty-five per centum for projects on the Federal-aid highway system in urban areas. The said sums, respectively, for any fiscal year, shall be apportioned among the several States in the manner now provided by law and in accordance with the formulas set forth in section 4 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 approved December 20, 1944: Provided, That the authorization for the fiscal year ending 1950 shall be apportioned among the States as soon as practicable after July 1, 1948, but not later than September 1, 1948. Any sums apportioned to any State under the provisions of this section shall be available for expenditure in that State for two fiscal years after the close of the fiscal year for which such sums are authorized, and any sums apportioned to any State under section 4 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, approved December 20, 1944, shall be available for expenditure in that State for three fiscal years after the close of the fiscal year for which such sums are author- ized and any amount so apportioned remaining unexpended at the end of such period shall lapse: Provided, That such funds for any fiscal year, including any funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act, shall be deemed to have been expended if a sum equal to the total of the sums apportioned to the State for such fiscal year is 6870-49--pt. 1 -T- 1105 June 29, 1948 [H. R. 5888] [Public Law 834] Federal-Aid High- way Act of 1948. 23U. .C. 48;16 U.S. C. 503. 23U.. .0. § 60-3. Appropriation au- thorized. Availability of ap propriation. 58 Stat. 838 . 23U. .C.§60-63. "Secondary and feeder roads"; "prin- cipal secondary and feeder roads." Apportionment. 58 Stat. 840. Period of availa- bility of funds. 58 Stat. 84

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