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Calendar No. 374 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2143 

[Report No. 114–213] 

To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns of the StarrCamargo Bridge Company to maintain and operate a toll bridge across 

the Rio Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

OCTOBER 6, 2015 

Mr. CORNYN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Environment and Public Works 

FEBRUARY 24, 2016 

Reported by Mr. INHOFE, without amendment 

A BILL 

To provide for the authority for the successors and assigns 

of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to maintain and 

operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande near Rio 

Grande City, Texas, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. STARR-CAMARGO BRIDGE. 

4 Public Law 87–532 (76 Stat. 153) is amended— 

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1 (1) in the first section, in subsection (a)(2)— 

2 (A) by inserting ‘‘, and its successors and 

3 assigns,’’ after ‘‘State of Texas’’; 

4 (B) by inserting ‘‘consisting of not more 

5 than 14 lanes’’ after ‘‘approaches thereto’’; and 

6 (C) by striking ‘‘and for a period of sixty7 six years from the date of completion of such 

8 bridge,’’; 

9 (2) in section 2, by inserting ‘‘and its succes10 sors and assigns,’’ after ‘‘companies’’; 

11 (3) by redesignating sections 3, 4, and 5 as sec12 tions 4, 5, and 6, respectively; 

13 (4) by inserting after section 2 the following: 

14 ‘‘SEC. 3. RIGHTS OF STARR-CAMARGO BRIDGE COMPANY 

15 AND SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. 

16 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Starr-Camargo Bridge 

17 Company and its successors and assigns shall have the 

18 rights and privileges granted to the B and P Bridge Com19 pany and its successors and assigns under section 2 of 

20 the Act of May 1, 1928 (45 Stat. 471, chapter 466). 

21 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENT.—In exercising the rights and 

22 privileges granted under subsection (a), the Starr23 Camargo Bridge Company and its successors and assigns 

24 shall act in accordance with— 

25 ‘‘(1) just compensation requirements; 

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1 ‘‘(2) public proceeding requirements; and 

2 ‘‘(3) any other requirements applicable to the 

3 exercise of the rights referred to in subsection (a) 

4 under the laws of the State of Texas.’’; and 

5 (5) in section 4 (as redesignated by paragraph 

6 (3))— 

7 (A) by inserting ‘‘and its successors and 

8 assigns,’’ after ‘‘such company’’; 

9 (B) by striking ‘‘or’’ after ‘‘public agen10 cy,’’; 

11 (C) by inserting ‘‘or to a corporation,’’ 

12 after ‘‘international bridge authority or commis13 sion,’’; and 

14 (D) by striking ‘‘authority, or commission’’ 

15 each place it appears and inserting ‘‘authority, 

16 commission, or corporation’’. 

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Calendar No. 374 

114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 2143 

[Report No. 114–213] 

A BILL 

To provide for the authority for the successors and 

other purposes. Grande near Rio Grande City, Texas, and for maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Rio assigns of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company to 

FEBRUARY 24, 2016 

Reported without amendment 

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