An Act to amend the act of July 26, 1956, to authorize the Muscatine Bridge Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Muscatine, Iowa, and the town of Drury, Ill
PL 89-499 (H.R.3976), enacted 07/08/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-499-JULY 8, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
July 8, 1966 
[H. R. 3976] 
Public Law 89-499 
AN A.CT 
To amend the Act of July 26, 1956, to authorize the Muscatine Bridge Commission 
to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River at 
or near the city of Muscatine, Iowa, and the town of Drury, Illinois. 
Muscatine 
Bridge Commis-
sion. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rej>resentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Act entitled 
"An Act creating the Muscatine Bridge Commission and authorizing 
tio^'^*'^^^ construe- g^j^j Commissioii and its successors to acquire by purchase or con-
demnation and to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges 
across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Muscatine, Iowa, 
and the town of Drury, Illinois", approved July 26,1956 (70 Stat. 669; 
Public LaAv 811, Eighty-fourth Congress), as amended by the Act of 
April 27,1962 (76 Stat. 59; Public Law 87-441), is amended by insert-
ing immediately after section 14 the following new section: 
"SEC. 15. The Commission and its successors and assigns are 
authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches 
thereto across the Mississippi River at or near the city of Muscatine, 
iowa, and the town of Drury,, Illinois, subject to the provisions of this 
Act; except that the authority granted by this section shall cease and be 
null and void unless the actual construction of such bridge is com-
menced within three years and completed within five years from the 
date of enactment of this section." 
Approved July 8, 1966. 
Time expiration 
provision. 
July 12, 1966 
[H. R. 7423] 
Public Law 89-500 
AN ACT 
To permit certain transfers of Post Office Department appropriations. 
Post Office De-
partment appropri-
ations-
Certain trans-
fers. 
74 Stat. 594. 
Copy of request 
to congressional 
committees. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2201 
of title 39, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting " ( a ) " immediately before the word "Con-
gress"; and 
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(b) Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation available to 
the Post Office Department for each fiscal year may, when so specified 
in an appropriation Act, be transferred, with the approval of the 
Bureau of the Budget, to any other appropriation or appropriations 
available to such Department for such fiscal year, but no appropriation 
shall thereby be increased by more than 5 per centum. Whenever the 
Postmaster General submits a request for the approval of the Bureau 
of the Budget of a transfer of any appropriation under this subsection, 
he shall furnish a copy of such request to the respective Committees 
on Appropriations and on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate 
and House of Representatives.". 
Approved July 12, 1966.