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PUBLIC LAW 85-506-JULY 3, 1968

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paid and the state of Vermont and the state of New York having been fully repaid for all the moneys advanced by them, this article shall supersede such article twenty-one and section three of article thirty and shall hereafter be controlling in accordance with its provisions. "2. I t continues to be the declared purpose of each of the contracting parties that both of said bridges will eventually be free bridges; {)rovided, however, that until such time as said states by concurrent egislation shall provide a different method and procedure for the operation, maintenance and control of said bridges; they shall continue to be operated and maintained under the control of the Lake Champlain bridge commission, and said commission may continue to charge and collect reasonable tolls for the use of both said bridges in such amount as may be necessary in the judgment of the commission, (a) to meet all requirements for the proper operation and maintenance of the said bridges, (b) to establish a reserve fund to provide for future requirements for the proper operation and maintenance of the said bridges, and (c) to defrav the expense of preliminary studies and surveys as to the feasibility of constructing a new highway bridge, and approaches, across Lake Champlain from a point in the vicinity of Plattsburgh in the state of New York to a point in Grand Isle county in the state of Vermont. "ARTICLE X L V

"Such commission shall have the power to apply to the Coiigi'ess of the United States, or any department of the United States, for consent or approval of this agreement or compact, as amended, but in the absence of such consent by Congress and until the same shall have been secured, this agreement or compact, as amended, shall be binding upon the state of Vermont when ratified by it and the state of New York when ratified by it without the consent of Congress to cooperate for the purposes enumerated in this agreement or compact, ana in the manner herein provided and for all purposes that it legally

may be."

SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is expressly reserved. Approved July 3, 1958. Public Law 85-505 July 3. 1958 [H. R. 8054]

Alaska.

AN ACT r£iQ provide for the leasing of oil and gas deposits in lands beneath nontidal navigable waters In the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled.

L e a 8 i n g of oil and g a s deposits.

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DEFINITIONS

1. That, when used in this Act— (a) the term "lands beneath nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska" means (1) all lands within the boundaries of the Territory of Alaska which are covered by nontidal waters that are navigable under the laws of the United States, up to the ordinary high-water mark as heretofore or hereafter modified by accretion, erosion, and reliction. For the purposes of this definition and this Act, streams shall be "nontidal" at all points upstream from a line connecting the headlands at the mouth or mouths of such streams. SECTION

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