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PUBLIC LAW 93-251-MAR. 7, 1974

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provide that the non-Federal interests shall contribute 25 per centum of the costs of areas required for initial and subsequent disposal of spoil, and of necessary retaining dikes, bulkheads, and embankments therefor. (b) The requirements for appropriate non-Federal interest or inter- waiver. ests to furnish an agreement to contribute 25 per centum of the construction costs as set forth in subsection (a) shall be waived by the Secretary of the Army upon a finding by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that for the area to which such construction applies, the State or States involved, interstate agency, municipality, and other appropriate political subdivisions of the State and industrial concerns are participating in and in compliance with an approved plan for the general geographical area of the dredging activity for construction, modification, expansion, or rehabilitation of waste treatment facilities and the Administrator has found that applicable water quality standards are not being violated. SEC, 59. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the States of ^rld^e'^"*'' ^°'^^' Illinois and Iowa, which are connected at Keokuk, Iowa, by the bridge " ^^' constructed by the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company pursuant to Public Law 342 of the Sixty-third Congress and at Burlington, ^s Stat. 1220, Iowa, by the bridge constructed by the Citizens' Bridge Company, pursuant to Public Law 1 of the Sixty-fourth Congress are authorized ^^ ^*^*- ^• to contract individually or jointly with either or both of the cities of Keokuk, Iowa, and Burlington, Iowa, on or before June 1, 1974, to assume responsibility for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the bridges at Keokuk and Burlington and the approaches thereto and for lawful expenses incurred in connection therewith. When either or both States have entered into such an agreement any outstanding principal and interest indebtedness on account of a bridge shall be paid from reserve funds accumulated for that purpose and the balance of such funds, if any, shall be used to defray costs of operating and maintaining the bridge. After such an agreement is entered into with respect to a bridge that bridge shall thereafter be free of tolls. SEC. 60. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of ouyandot River Engineers, is authorized and directed to perform channel cleanout channe 1^01^^/31106. operations and snagging and clearing for selected streams where chronic and persistent flood conditions exist in the lower Guyandot River Basin, West Virginia, for the purpose of improving channel capacities, visual environment, and human well-being all in the interest of flood control. Such operations shall be performed as an interim measure pending completion of the R. D. Bailey Lake project at a total cost not to exceed $2,000,000. Appropriate non-Federal interests as determined by the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall, prior to initiation of remedial operations, agree in accordance with the provisions of section 221 of the Flood Control Act of 1970 that they will furnish the necessary lands, disposal areas, ease- ^^^ use 1962dments, and rights-of-way, and hold and save the United States free from damages due to the cleanout operations. SEC. 61. Section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948 (33 U.S.C. 701s) is amended— (1) by striking out "$25,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$30,000,000". (2) by striking out "advisable:" and all that follows down through and including the period at the end of such section and insert in lieu thereof the following: "advisable. The amount allotted, for a project shall be sufficient to complete Federal participation in the project. Not more than $1,000,000 shall be allotted under this section for a project at any single locality, except that

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