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PUBLIC LAW 89-499-JULY 8, 1966

[80 STAT.

Public Law 89-499 July 8, 1966 [H. R. 3976]

AN A.CT To amend the Act of July 26, 1956, to authorize the Muscatine Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River a t or n e a r the city of Muscatine, Iowa, and the town of Drury, Illinois.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act creating the Muscatine Bridge Commission and authorizing tio^'^*'^^^ construe- g^j^j Commissioii and its successors to acquire by purchase or condemnation and to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Muscatine, Iowa, and the town of Drury, Illinois", approved July 26, 1956 (70 Stat. 669; Public Law 811, Eighty-fourth Congress), as amended by the Act of April 27, 1962 (76 Stat. 59; Public Law 87-441), is amended by inserting immediately after section 14 the following new section: "SEC. 15. The Commission and its successors and assigns are authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Muscatine, iowa, and the town of Drury,, Illinois, subject to the provisions of this Time expiration Act; except that the authority granted by this section shall cease and be provision. null and void unless the actual construction of such bridge is commenced within three years and completed within five years from the date of enactment of this section." Approved July 8, 1966. Muscatine Bridge Commission.

Public Law 89-500 July 12, 1966 [H. R. 7423]

Post Office Department appropriationsCertain transfers. 74 Stat. 594.

Copy of request to congressional committees.

AN ACT To permit certain transfers of Post Office Department appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2201 of title 39, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting " (a) " immediately before the word "Congress"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (b) Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation available to the Post Office Department for each fiscal year may, when so specified in an appropriation Act, be transferred, with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, to any other appropriation or appropriations available to such Department for such fiscal year, but no appropriation shall thereby be increased by more than 5 per centum. Whenever the Postmaster General submits a request for the approval of the Bureau of the Budget of a transfer of any appropriation under this subsection, he shall furnish a copy of such request to the respective Committees on Appropriations and on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate and House of Representatives.". Approved July 12, 1966.

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