An Act to amend the act of February 7, 1905, as amended, authorizing the Kensington & Eastern Railroad Co. to construct a bridge across the Calumet River.
PL 82-565 (H.R.8190), enacted 07/16/1952

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entitled "An Act to provide for the alteration of certain bridges over 
navigable waters of the United States, for the apportionment of the 
cost of such alterations between the United States and the owners of 
such bridges, and for other purposes" (33 U. S. C , sec. 511), are 
amended to read as follows: 
"The term 'bridge' means a lawful bridge over navigable waters 
of the United States, including approaches, fenders, and appurte-
nances thereto, which is used and operated for the purpose of carry-
ing railroad traffic^ or both railroad and highway traffic, or if a State, 
county, municipality, or other political subdivision is the owner or 
joint owner thereof, w^hich is used and operated for the purpose of 
carrying highway traffic. 
"The term 'bridge owner' means any State, county, municipality, 
or other political subdivision, or any corporation, association, partner-
ship, or individual owning, or jointly owning, any bridge, and, when 
any bridge shall be in the possession or under the control of any 
trustee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, or lessee, such term shall 
include both the owner of the legal title and the person or the entity 
in possession or control of such bridge." 
SEC. 2. Section 6 of such Act of June 21, 1940 (33 U. S. C , sec. 
516), is amended by striking out the following: '"'"Provided^ That the 
part of the cost of alteration of any bridge for both highway and 
railroad traffic, attributable to the requirements of traffic by highway, 
shall be borne by the proprietor of the highway:". 
SEC. 3. In the administration of this Act, hearings and other pro-
cedures shall be exempted from the provisions of the Administrative 
Procedure Act (60 Stat. 237), except as to the requirements of section 
3 thereof. 
SEC. 4. Section 13 of such Act of June 21, 1940 (33 U. S. C, sec. 
523), is amended by striking out the words "used for railroad traffic". 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
54 Stat. 497. 
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Public Law 565 
CHAPTER 890 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of February 7, 1905, as amended, authorizing the Kensington 
and Eastern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet 
River. 
July 16, 1952 
[H. R. 8190] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act of Feb-
ruary 7, 1905, as amended, authorizing the Kensington and Eastern 
Railroad to construct a bridge across the Calumet River, is amended 
to read as follows: 
"SECTION 1. The Kensington and Eastern Railroad Company, a rail-
road company organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its 
successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct, maintain, 
and operate a bridge across the Calumet River in the northeast quarter 
of the northwest quarter of section 36, township 37 north, range 14 east 
of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, at a point 
about three hundred and fifty feet south of the north line of the said 
section, the said point being about eight-tenths of a mile upstream from 
the bridge of the New York, Chicago and Saint Louis Railroad Com-
pany, located near Hegewisch, in the State of Illinois. 
"SEC. 2. The bridge authorized by section 1 of this Act may be either 
a drawbridge or a fixed bridge as approved by the Chief of Engineers 
and the Secretary of the Army: Provided^ That changes in type, 
C a l u m e t River 
bridge. 
33 Stat. 703. 
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design, and location of such bridge may be made, upon approval of 
plans for such changes by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary 
of the Army. 
"SEC. 3. The bridge authorized by section 1 of this Act shall be 
maintained and operated according to existing law as contained in 
chapter 11 of title 33 of the United States Code and all rights granted 
thereunder are hereby expressly reserved. 
"SEC. 4. The Kensington and Eastern Railroad Company may sell, 
assign, transfer, and mortgage all of its rights, powers and privileges 
under this Act; and its successors and assigns, and any corporation to 
which such rights, powers, and privileges are sold, assigned, or trans-
ferred, or which acquires the same by mortgage foreclosure or other-
wise, may exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly 
upon such corporation. 
"SEC. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved." 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
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Public Law 566 
CHAPTER 891 
JvUy 16, 1952 
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ACT 
[H. R. 8194] 
To amend an Act approved May 26, 1928, relating to a bridge across the 
Mississippi River at Bettendorf, Iowa, 
M i s s Is s i p p i 
River bridge, Bett 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sembledy That section 7 of the 
eiidorfriowa! 
Act approved May 26, 1928, is hereby amended by adding at the end 
45 Stat. 761. 
Q£ ^J^^ section the following: "Any State or public agency or political 
subdivision thereof that may have originally constructed said bridge 
as assignee of the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act, 
and any State or public agency or political subdivision thereof that 
may have succeeded to the rights of such assignee and that may have 
taken over or acquired said bridge, is hereby authorized, and subject 
to approval of the pertinent plans by the Chief of Engineers and 
Secretary of the Army, to enlarge and reconstruct said bridge and 
approaches, including the construction of a separate but adjacent span 
across the Mississippi River and approaches thereto with intercon-
nections with the original span, and to continue to charge tolls for 
transit over such bridge as so enlarged and reconstructed, subject to 
the limitations expressed in section 3 hereof, to provide a fund suffi-
cient to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the 
bridge and its approaches as so enlarged and reconstructed under eco-
nomical management and to provide a sinking fund to amortize the 
cost thereof including interest and financing cost, as soon as possible 
under reasonable charges, but witliin a period of not to exceed thirty 
years from the date of completion of such improvements, and after a 
sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so pro-
vided, such bridge and adjacent span shall thereafter be maintained 
and operated free of tolls in accordance with such arrangement as 
may be mutually agreed upon by the public agency or political sub-
division then owning said bridge and the State Highway Departments 
or other appropriate authorities of Iowa and Illinois, and, in connec-
tion with any such enlargement and reconstruction of said bridge and 
approaches thereto, shall have the right and power to enter upon and 
acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use such real estate and other 
property as may be needed upon making just compensation therefor 
to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of the State in which