An Act to amend title II of the Act of August 30, 1954, entitled ""An Act to authorize and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for other purposes
PL 84-534 (H.R.7228), enacted 05/22/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 534-MAY 22, 1956 
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"Public Library", $98,500; 
"Kecreation Department", $79,000; 
"Metropolitan Police", $840,300, of which amount $118,100 
shall be payable from the highway fund; 
"Fire Department", $330,000; 
"Office of Civil Defense", $3,400; 
"Courts", $445,000; 
"Department of Public Health", $1,263,800; 
"Department of Corrections", $145,000; 
"Department of Public Welfare", $297,800; 
"Department of Buildings and Grounds", $77,300; 
"Office of the Surveyor", $4,400; 
"Department of Licenses and Inspections", $54,000; 
"Department of Highways", $70,300, of which amount $50,522 
shall be payable from the highway fund; 
"Department of Vehicles and Traffic", $53,500 (payable from 
the highway fund); 
"Department of Sanitary Engineering", $124,500, of which 
amount $36,941 shall be payable from the water fund and $37,487 
shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund; 
"Washington Aqueduct", $43,500 (payable from the water 
fund); 
"National Guard", $5,800; 
"National Capital Parks", $95,000; 
"National Zoological Park", $21,600. 
GENERAL PROVISION 
SEC. 1402. Except where specifically increased or decreased else-
where in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, 
or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during 
the fiscal year 1956, limiting the amounts which may be expended for 
personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or 
amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authori-
zations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased 
to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by the 
499! fat^ 53o/"* Act of June 10, 1955 (Public Law 68), the Act of June 28, 1955 
5 ^irac? ina SSte! (Public Law 94), the Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 242), the 
2 use 60« noti Act of August 5, 1955 (Public Law 243), and the Act of August 5, 
cod/|i?6'59?'ieJ 1955 (Public Law 244). 
Approved May 19, 1956. 
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Public Law 534 
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y 22, 1956 
AN ACT 
[H. R; 72283 
To amend title II of the Act of August 30, 1954, entitled "An Act to authorize 
and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for other 
purposes". 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
brid*"** ^*'*"* United States of America in Congress assenibled, That section 201 of 
p<Swn«c River, title I I of the Act of August 30, 1954, entitled "An Act to authorize 
and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for 
other purposes" (68 Stat. 963), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
con.t*ucUoiu 
"SEC. 201. (a) The Secretary of Commerce (referred to hereinafter 
as the "Secretary") is authorized and directed to construct a six-lane 
bridge over the Potomac River, from a point at or near Jones Point, 
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Virginia, across a certain portion of the District of Columbia, to a 
point in Maryland, together with bridge approaches on property 
owned by the United States in the State of Virginia: Provided^ That 
nothing in this section or in other sections of this Act shall be con-
strued as authorizing or as requiring the Secretary to construct any 
ingress or egress approaches to the bridge which will directly connect 
with or empty into those streets within the corporate limits of the city 
of Alexandria, Virginia, which are east of Mount Vernon Boulevard 
(now known as Washington Street) and are now known as Potomac 
Street, South Lee Street, South Fairfax Street, South Koyal Street, 
South Pitt Street, South St. Asaph Street, Green Street, and Jefferson 
Street. 
"(b) The bridge shall be of deck girder construction, with a mov-
able span of the double-leaf bascule type over the navigable channel 
liaving horizontal clearance of approximately one hundred and fifty 
feet and vertical clearance above mean low water of approximately 
forty feet, and shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions 
of subsection (b) of section 502 of the "General Bridge Act of 1946", 
approved August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 847), as amended, and subject 
to the conditions and limitations in this title. 
"(c) The Secretary shall request the recommendations and sug-
gestions of the National Capital Planning Commission relative to the 
design of such bridge and approaches and shall consult with the Sec-
retary of the Interior with respect to all plans for overpasses, ap-
proaches, interchanges, and connecting roads at both ends of the bridge 
which affect lands and facilities administered or authorized to be 
administered by the Department of the Interior. 
"(d) Upon the completion of the bridge project all lands acquired 
pursuant to this Act that are located within the authorized boundaries 
of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, with the exception of 
such portions thereof that shall be actually occupied by the bridge 
structure and main approaches leading thereto and the bridge itself, 
shall be under the administrative control and jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of the Interior for purposes of the Parkway." 
SEC. 2. Section 204 of the said title I I is hereby amended by 
inserting, immediately before the period at the end thereof, the words 
"and that such bridge will be maintained and operated by the said 
States". 
SEC. 3. There shall be transferred to the Department of Commerce 
so much of the records, property, and funds of the Department of the 
Interior as may be appropriate by reason of the enactment of the 
foregoing provisions of this Act. 
Such measures and dispositions 
as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary 
to effectuate the said transfers shall be carried out in such manner 
as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate. 
Approved May 22, 1956. 
Approaches. 
Structure. 
33 u s e 525. 
D e s i g n , reconir 
mendations. 
J u r i s d i c t i o n , 
e t c . , o f acquired 
lands. 
68 Stat. 964. 
Transfer of rec-
ords, etc. 
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CHAPTER 317 
AN ACT 
To designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River in the vicinity 
of Jones Point, Virginia, as the "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge". 
May 22, 1956 
[H. R. 8130] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the bridge 
to be constructed over the Potomac River from a point at or near 
Jones Point, Virginia, across a certain portion of the District of 
Columbia, to a point in Maryland, under tlie provisions of title I I of 
Woodrow Wilson 
Memorial Bridge.