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Surveys.

64 Stat. 168.

Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapo l i s, Minn. 46 Stat. 927.

Illinois and Michigan Canal.

Report to Congress. East St. Louis and Chester, 111., bridges. 60 Stat. 847. 33 USC 525 note. 60 Stat. 891.

53 Stat. 1058. 54 Stat. 765. 7 2 Stat. 35 5.

PUBLIC LAW 89-789-NOV. 7, 1966

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San Diego (Sunset Cliff's), California: House Document Numbered 477, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $809,000. SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to cause surveys to be made at the following named localities and subject to all applicable provisions of section 110 of the River and Harbor Act of 1950: Mexico Beach, Florida. Great Lakes, particularly Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, in connection with water supply, pollution abatement, navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power, and related water resources development and control. SEC. lOS. The project for navigation on the Upper Mississippi River from the Illinois River to Minneapolis, Minnesota, authorized by the Act of July 30, 1930, as extended and amended, is hereby modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army to reimburse any common carrier by railroad for the cost of permanent reconstruction and repair of the Stone Arch Bridge at Minneapolis, Minnesota, performed by such carrier, to repair the damage to such bridge caused by floods during April and May 1965, except that such reimbursement shall not exceed $700,000. SEC. 104. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to cause an immediate study to be made, under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in cooperation with appropriate agencies and representatives of the State of Illinois, of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, its lands and appurtenances extending from Chicago to the Illinois River at La Salle as constructed by the State of Illinois pursuant to the provisions, as applicable, of the Acts of March 30, 1822 (3 Stat. 659), March 2, 1827 (4 Stat. 234), and March 2, 1833 (4 Stat. 662) with a view toward determining (1) those portions no longer required for navigation, (2) the feasibility and advisability of declaring such portions abandoned as a navigable waterway, and (3) procedures for releasing and quitclaiming to the State of Illinois the reversionary interests of the United States in such lands not required for navigation purposes. The Secretary shall report to the Congress the results of such study together with his recommendations thereon not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any provision in the General Bridge Act of 1946 or any other Act of Congress, in the case of the bridge constructed by the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois, across the Mississippi River, pursuant to Public Law Numbered 639, enacted by the Seventyninth C o n f e s s of the United States of America at the second session, and the bridge constructed across the Mississippi River by the city of Chester, Illinois, pursuant to Public Law Numbered 191, enacted by the Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States of America, as amended by Public Law Numbered 751, enacted by the Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States of America, and Public Law Numbered 85-512, enacted by the Eighty-fifth Congress of the United States of America at the second session, if the applicable law of the State of Illinois provides or permits the establishment of reasonable tolls sufficient for the reasonable cost of maintaining, operating, and repairing said bridges and the approaches thereto under economical management, and provide a sinking fund to amortize the cost of any bonds or other obligations issued to finance such cost, including reasonable interest and financing costs as soon as possible under reasonable charges and within the period of thirty years from completion, reconstruction, repair, and improvement of such bridge or extensions thereof, and permits or provides the transfer to said city of any surplus income to the city to be used for a proper public purpose, and each of

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