An Act to provide for the acquisition of additional land along the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway in exchange for certain dredging privileges, and for other purposes
PL 86-41 (H.R.2228), enacted 06/11/1959

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Public Law 86-41 
AN ACT 
To provide for the acquisition of additional land along the Mount Vernon 
Memorial Highway in exchange for certain dredging privileges, and for other 
purposes. 
June 11, 1959 
[H. R. 2228] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That in order to 
protect more adequately the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, to 
add further to its memorial character, and in order to acquire an area 
of irreplaceable wet lands near the Nation's Capitol which is valuable 
for the production and preservation of wildlife, the Secretary of the 
Interior is hereby authorized to carry out the following transactions 
with the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation: 
(a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire certain 
lands in exchange for certain dredging and other rights on land 
already owned by the United States on the east side of the Mount 
Vernon Memorial Highw^ay in Fairfax County, Virginia, extending 
from approximately station 42G to station 516 + 50, shown as areas 
"A", "B", "C", and "D" on plan numbered 105.22-415 in the files of 
the National Capital Planning Commission and more particularly set 
forth as follows: 
(1) To accept on behalf of the United States of America a good 
and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to that 
piece of land lying on the east side of the Mount Vernon Memorial 
JFIighway and extending from approximately opposite station 459 to 
station 516 + 50, approximately five thousand seven hundred and fifty 
feet in length and averaging approximately eight hundred feet in 
Avidth, and containing one hundred and ten acres, more or less, and 
as further shown as area "A" on said plan. 
(2) To accept on behalf of the United States of America a good 
and sufficient title in fee simple, free of all encumbrances, to area "D" 
lying between area "A" and the Potomac River, and containing one 
hundred and fifty acres, more or less; the Smoot Sand and Gravel 
Corporation reserving unto itself, its successors and assigns, the right 
to remove sand and gravel therefrom for a period of thirty years, and 
for the same period reserving such riparian rights as may exist in 
area "D". 
(3) To permit the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation, its suc-
cessors and assigns, to remove sand and gravel from that part of 
United States property lying east of area " B " and opposite stations 
426 to 459, to the extent of eighty-five acres, of the total one hundred 
and ten acres in area "C", as shown on said plan, for a period of twenty 
years, and for the same period granting such riparian rights as may 
exist in this area. 
(4) To require that the scope of dredging operations necessary to 
remove the sand and gravel in areas "C" and "D" be so limited and 
conducted as not to undermine the adjacent shores of areas "A" and 
" B " ; and to allow the workmen employed in the dredging operations 
at the locations described above to have access to the Mount Vernon 
Memorial Highway for the purpose of going to and from work, and 
to park their cars at designated places. 
(b) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby further authorized to 
prescribe in any contract or contracts entered into pursuant hereto 
any other terms and conditions deemed necessary to protect the inter-
ests of the United States in the above transactions, including condi-
tions governing the conduct of dredging operations, the deposition of 
spoil, and the revegetation of spoil areas, so that these activities will 
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Admini stration. 
be carried on in such a manner as to provide for the preservation of 
wildlife values in areas "C" and " D " : Provided^ That nothing con-
tained in this Act or any contract entered into pursuant to this Act, 
between the United States of America and the Smoot Sand and 
Gravel Corporation shall be construed as interfering with the unin-
terrupted right of the Smoot Sand and Gravel Corporation to dredge 
in areas "C" and "D" for the periods specified. 
(c) All lands acquired by the United States pursuant to this Act 
shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. 
The Secre-
tary shall administer all of the lands described in this bill as "A", 
"B", "C", and "D" so that fish and wildlife development and their 
preservation as wet land wildlife habitat shall be paramount, except 
such portion thereof that the Secretary shall designate as a part of the 
George Washington Memorial Parkway within one year from the 
effective date of this Act. 
(d) AH dredging shall be performed in accordance with plans 
recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secre-
tary, of the Army as provided in section 10 of River and Harbor Act 
approved March 3,1899 (30 Stat. 1151; 33 U.S.C. 403), as amended. 
Approved June 11, 1959. 
June 11, 1959 
[H. J, Res. 254] 
Public Law 86-42 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize participation by the United States in parliamentary conferences 
with Canada. 
Canada- U.S. In-
terparliam en t ar y 
group p a r t i c i p a -
tion. 
Appropriation. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Refvesentatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That not to exceed twenty-
four Members of Congress shall be appointed to meet jointly and at 
least annually and when Congress is not in session (except that this 
restriction shall not apply during the first session of the Eighty-sixth 
Congress or to meetings held in the United States) with representa-
tives of the House of Commons and Senate of the Canadian Parlia-
ment for discussion of common problems in the interests of relations 
between the United States and Canada. Of the Members of the Con-
gress to be appointed for the purposes of this resolution (hereinafter 
designated as tlie United States group) half shall be appointed by 
the Speaker of the House from Members of the House (not less than 
four of whom shall be from the Foreign Affairs Committee), and 
luilf shall be appointed by the President of the Senate from Members 
of the Senate (not less than four of whom shall be from the Foreign 
Relations Committee). 
Such appointments shall be for the period of each meeting of the 
Canada-United States Interparliamentary group except for the four 
members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the four members of 
the Foreign Relations Committee, whose appointments shall be for 
the duration of each Congress. 
SEC. 2. An appropriation of $30,000 annually is authorized, $15,000 
of which shall be for the House delegation and $15,000 for the Senate 
delegation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to assist in meeting 
the expenses of the United States group of the Canada-United States 
Interparliamentary group for each fiscal year for which an appro-
priation is made, the House and Senate portions of such appropriation 
to be disbursed on vouchers to be approved by the Chairman of the 
House delegation and the Chairman of the Senate delegation, 
respectively.