An Act to increase the amount authorized for the erection and equipment of suitable and adequate buildings and facilities for the use of the National Institute of Dental Research
PL 84-732 (S.3246), enacted 07/19/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 731-JULY 19, 1956 
[70 STAT. 
Public Law 731 
CHAPTER 636 
July 19, 1956 
AN ACT 
[s. 2704] 
rj>Q authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of certain highway-
railroad grade separations in the District of Columbia, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Fmid.^* "^^*"'*^ United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in recognition 
Appropriation. 
of the fact that the need to bring traffic to and from the Washington-
Baltimore Parkway and to handle such traffic requires the construc-
tion of certain highway-railroad grade separations, there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated to the District of Columbia for credit 
to the Highway Fund, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, the sum of $665,000, which shall be in addition to 
any other amounts authorized, appropriated, accruing, or otherwise 
made available to the District of Columbia under any other provision 
of law, for the construction and maintenance in the District of Colum-
bia of a highway-railroad grade separation underpass at a point in 
the southeast section of the District of Columbia in the vicinity of 
East Capitol Street, where the proposed extension of East Capitol 
Street as shown on the highway plan of the District of Columbia will 
cross the right-of-way of the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing-
ton Railroad and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Such sums as 
are appropriated shall remain available until expended when specifi-
cally provided in the appropriation Act. 
SEC. 2. Appropriations made to carry out the purposes of this Act 
shall be available for construction, maintenance, and expenses inci-
dent to construction and maintenance, including planning, design, 
overhead, and supervision. 
SEC. 3. Since the construction of East Capitol Street extended is to 
provide connections between the District of Columbia and the Federal 
Highway System, the entire cost of construction and maintenance 
of the grade-separation structure referred to in the preceding sections 
of this Act shall be borne by the District of Columbia, out of funds 
authorized to be appropriated by this Act and any other funds avail-
able to the District, and no contributions to such cost of construction 
and maintenance shall be required of any railroad whose right-of-way 
is involved by such structure, except as provided in section 4 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 4. The dedication by the railroads to the District of Columbia 
of the right to use as a public thoroughfare the portion of East Capi-
tol Street extended shall not impair or affect the right of the rail-
roads to use for railroad purposes the portion of its right-of-way so 
dedicated. 
Approved July 19, 1956. 
Public Law 732 
CHAPTER 637 
July 19, 1956 
AN ACT 
[s. 3246] 
rj,^ increase the amount authorized for the erection and equipment of suital)le 
and adequate buildings and facilities for the use of the National Institute of 
Dental Research. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the 
''National Dental Research Act", approved June 24,1948 (Public Law 
42usc'2l8note "^^^^ Eightieth Congress), is amended by striking out '•$2,0()(),000-" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$4,000,000''. 
Approved July 19, 1956.