An Act to authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of certain highway-railroad grade separations in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 83-571 (H.R.6080), enacted 08/09/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 571-AUG. 9, 1954 
[68 S T A T . 
Prohibition. 
National 
A d v i -
s o r y 
Council on 
International Mon-
etary a n d Finan-
cial Problems. 
Members. 
62 Stat. 141. 
22 u s e 286b. 
65 Stat. 367. 
12 u s e 635d. 
12 u s e 635e. 
Effective date. 
67 Stat. 637. 
5 u s e 
133Z-15 
note. 
paid actual travel expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of 
subsistence and other expenses. 
"(e) No director, officer, attorney, agent, or employee of the Bank 
shall in any manner, directly or indirectly, participate in the delibera-
tion upon or the determination of any question affecting his personal 
interests, or the interests of any corporation, partnership or associa-
tion in which he is directly or indirectly personally interested." 
SEC. 2. Section 4 (a) of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, as 
amended, is hereby further amended by striking out all following 
"Federal Reserve System," and inserting in lieu thereof "the Presi-
dent of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and during such 
period as the Foreign Operations Administration shall continue to 
exist, the Director of the Foreign Operations Administration." 
SEC. 3. The Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended, is 
hereby further amended as follows: 
(a) Section 6 is amended by striking out the words "three and 
one-half times the authorized capital stock of the Bank" and sub-
stituting therefor the figure "$4,000,000,000". 
(b) Section 7 is amended by striking out the words "four and 
one-half times the authorized capital stock of the Bank" and sub-
stituting therefor the figure "$5,000,000,000". 
SEC. 4. The provisions of this Act for the appointment of a Presi-
dent and a First Vice President of the Bank and the members of the 
Board of Directors shall be effective upon its enactment. 
The remain-
ing provisions of this Act shall become effective when the President 
and First Vice President of the Bank and one other member of the 
Board of Directors initially appointed hereunder enter upon office, 
and shall thereupon supersede Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1953. 
Approved August 9, 1954. 
August 9, 1954 
[H. R. 6080] 
Public Law 571 
CHAPTER 661 
AN ACT 
To authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of certain highway-
railroad grade separations in the District of Columbia, and for other pur-
poses. 
D. C. highway-
r a ilr o ad g r a d e 
separations. 
Construction ap-
propriation. 
Poat, p. 807. 
Location. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in recognition 
of the fact that the need to bring traffic to and from the Washington-
Baltimore Parkway and to handle such traffic requires the construction 
of certain highway-railroad grade separations, there is hereby author-
ized to be appropriated to the District of Columbia for credit to the 
Highway Fund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of $290,000, which shall be in addition to any other 
amounts authorized, appropriated, accruing, or otherwise made avail-
able to the District of Columbia under any other provisions of law, 
for the construction and maintenance in the District of Columbia of a 
highway-railroad grade separation structure at the point in the north-
east section of the District of Columbia in the vicinity of South Dakota 
Avenue Northeast, where the proposed extension of New York Avenue 
as shown on the highway plan of the District of Columbia will cross 
the right-of-way of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
Railroad. Such sums as are appropriated shall remain available until 
expended when specifically 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 incident 
to construction and maintenance, including planning, design, over-
head, and supervision. 
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SEC. 3. Since the construction of New York Avenue extended is to 
provide connections between the District of Columbia and the Federal 
highway system, the entire cost of the 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 contribution to such cost of construction 
and maintenance shall be required of any railroad whose right-of-way 
is crossed by such structure, except as provided in section 4 of this Act. 
The grade-separation structure for which appropriation is hereby 
authorized shall be designed, constructed, and maintained so as not 
to interfere with the safe and efficient operation of any railroad 
whose right-of-way is crossed by the structure. 
SEC. 4. When the District of Columbia has acquired, hj purchase, 
condemnation, dedication, gift, or any other means, the right to use 
as a public thoroughfare the portions of New York Avenue extended 
adjoining the right-of-way of a railroad company, such railroad com-
pany shall dedicate as a public thoroughfare the portion of such street 
which lies within the right-of-way belonging to such railroad com-
pany: Provided, 
That such dedication by the railroad shall not 
impair or affect the right of the railroad to use for railroad purposes 
the portion of its right-of-way so dedicated. 
Approved August 9, 1954. 
Public Law 572 
CHAPTER 662 
AN ACT 
Relating to the renewal of star-route and screen vehicle service contracts. 
August 10, 1954 
[S. 1244] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America iji Congress assembled, That the first sen-
tence of the next to hist paragraph of section 3951 of the revised 
statutes, as amended (39 U. S. C. 434) is amended by striking out the 
words ''one year" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "six months". 
Approved August 10, 1954. 
64 Stat. 260. 
Public Law 573 
CHAPTER 663 
AN ACT 
To approve an amendatory repayment contract negotiated with the North 
Unit irrigation district, to authorize construction of Haystack Reservoir on 
the Deschutes Federal reclamation project, and for other purposes. 
August 10, 1954 
[S. 2864] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the contract 
with the North Unit irrigation district in form substantially similar 
to that approved by the district directors on July 31, 1953, which has 
been negotiated by the Secretary of the Interior pui-suant to section 7, 
subsection (a), of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 
1192; 43 U. S. C, 1946 edition, sec. 485), is approved and the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to execute it on behalf of the United 
States. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary is authorized to construct the Haystack Dam 
and equalizing reservoir and related works as a feature of the 
Deschutes Federal reclamation project at a cost not in excess of an 
amount which, together with other project costs reimbursable and 
returnable to the United States pursuant to the terms and provisions 
North Unit irri-
gation district. 
Repayment 
con-
tract. 
43 u s e 485f. 
Haystack 
D i 
etc. 
Construction.