An Act to amend the act of June 21, 1940, relating to the alteration of certain bridges over navigable waters, so as to include highway bridges, and for other purposes.
PL 82-564 (H.R.8127), enacted 07/16/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 564-JULY 16, 1952 
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after referred to as "Parcel C") comprising a portion of lots 22 and 23 
in section 14, township 1 north, range 5 west, Mount Diablo base and 
meridian, as shown on the map entitled "Map. No. 1, Salt Marsh and 
Tide Lands situate in the County of Contra Costa, State of California, 
1872" (on file in the office of the surveyor general). Such land contains 
approximately one hundred and twenty-nine one-thousandths acre 
(five thousand six hundred and twelve square feet), excepting there-
from the land described in section 2, and is more particularly described 
as follows: 
Beginning for reference at the northwesterly corner of block 13, 
as said block is shown on the map of Osborne's Addition, filed in map 
book "E", at page 107, in the office of the county recorder of Contra 
Costa County; thence along the northerly line of said block 13, south 
seventy-seven degrees fourteen minutes twenty-eight seconds east, 
sixty-six and thirty-four one-hundredths feet to the true point of com-
mencement ; thence from a tangent that bears north fifty degrees four 
minutes thirty-eight seconds west, along a curve to the left with a 
radius of two thousand five hundred and fifty-five feet, through an 
angle of six degrees twenty minutes fifty-one and seven-tenths seconds, 
a distance of two hundred eighty-three and six one-hundredths feet 
to the property line common to the lands, now or formerly, of United 
States of America and of the city of Richmond; thence along said 
common line, north forty-nine degrees nineteen minutes 
fifty-six 
seconds east, twenty and seventy-seven one-hundredths feet; thence 
from a tangent that bears south fifty-six degrees seventeen minutes 
fifty-seven and eight-tenths seconds east, along a curve to the right 
with a radius of two thousand five hundred and seventy-five feet 
through an angle of six degrees twenty-seven minutes fifty-seven and 
eight-tenths seconds, a distance of two hundred ninety and sixty one-
hundredths feet; thence south forty-nine degrees fifty minutes east, 
twenty-seven and seventy-four one-hundredths feet to said northerly 
line of said block 13; thence along last said line north seventy-seven 
degrees fourteen minutes twenty-eight seconds west, forty-three and 
fifty one-hundredths feet to the true point of commencement. 
Requirements. 
SEC. 4. (a) The eascmeuts granted pursuant to sections 2 and 3 
shall include all the privileges and appurtenances necessary for the 
full enjoyment thereof. 
(b) The conveyance of land made pursuant to the first section of 
this Act and the grants of easements made pursuant to sections 2 and 3 
of this Act shall expressly provide that the State of California will 
at all times maintain such public highway, embankments, and drain-
age systems in good order, condition, and repair wholly at its own 
cost and expense, and that such drainage systems will be constructed 
and maintained by the State of California in such manner as to pro-
vide sufficient and adequate surface drainage at all times from the 
adjacent or contiguous lands owned by the United States. 
Approved July 16, 1952. 
Public Law 564 
CHAPTER 889 
July 16, 1952 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 8127] 
To amend the Act of June 21, 1940, relating to the alteration of certain bridges 
over navigable waters, so as to include highway bridges, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bepresentatives 
of the 
Bridges. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third, 
fourth, and fifth paragraphs of section 1 of the Act of June 21, 1940, 
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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. 
5 u s e 1001 note. 
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.