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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 II is hereby 68 Stat. 964. 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".

records, etc.

SEC. 3. There shall be transferred to the Department of Transfer 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.

An Act To authorize land exchanges for purposes of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Montgomery County, Maryland, and for other purposes, approved August 27, 1958 (72 Stat. 931)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purposes of relocating electric trolley lines, electrical transmission lines, and related facilities of the D.C. Transit System, Inc., and the Potomac Electric Power Company, Inc., in order to eliminate the necessity for crossings between the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the facilities of the aforesaid corporations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and to preserve more effectively the historic properties of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to consummate desirable exchanges as hereinafter prescribed.

In furtherance of these purposes, the Secretary is authorized on behalf of the United States to accept, from the aforesaid corporations or their successors or assigns, title to non-Federal land and interests in land adjacent to and situated in the vicinity of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Montgomery County, Maryland, and in exchange therefor to convey to the aforesaid grantors or their successors or assigns land or interests in land of the United States comprising a part of or located in the vicinity of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Montgomery County, Maryland: Provided, That Federal lands or interests outside the administrative control of said Secretary may be conveyed only with the approval of the administering agency. The aforesaid exchanges are authorized to be made without additional compensation by either party to the exchange when the properties to be exchanged are of approximately equal value. When, however, the properties are not of approximately equal value, as may be deter

George Washrial Parkway. Land exchange.

ington Memo

40 U.S.C. 651 note.

National Capi

tion Agency.

Land acquisition, etc., authority.

mined by the Secretary, an additional payment of funds
shall be required by the Secretary or by the grantors of
non-Federal properties, as the case may be, in order to
make an equal exchange. The Secretary is authorized
to use any funds available for the George Washington
Memorial Parkway project for such purposes. The
Secretary may consummate land exchanges herein
authorized upon such terms, conditions, and procedures
as he may find to be necessary or desirable in carrying out
the purposes of this Act.

An Act Authorizing the National Capital Transportation Agency
to carry out part 1 of its transit development program and to
further the objectives of the Act approved July 14, 1960 (74
Stat. 537), approved October 4, 1961 (75 Stat. 776)
Whereas the National Capital Transportation Agency
on July 31, 1961, transmitted to the Congress, pur-
suant to section 204 (c) of the National Capital Trans-
portation Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 537), a report entitled
"Report on Part One of the Transit Development Pro-
gram, July 1961"; and

Whereas part 1 of the transit development program pro-
vides for acquisition by the National Capital Trans-
portation Agency of land for future express transit
service in conjunction with the development of certain
new highways and parkways in the National Capital
region:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representtal Transporta- atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of enabling the National Capital Transportation Agency to carry out that part of its transit development program described in its report entitled "Report on Part One of the Transit Development Program, July 1961," transmitted to the Congress on July 31, 1961, pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) of section 204 of the National Capital Transportation Act of 1960, the National Capital Transportation Agency is hereby authorized, subject to the provisions of such Act, to acquire, or enter into agreements for the acquisition or use of, facilities, property, and rights-of-way for express transit:

40 U.S.C. 664.

(1) in the center median area and elsewhere in, adjacent to, or in conjunction with (A) Interstate Route 66 in Fairfax County and Arlington County, Virginia; and (B) Interstate Route 95 in Prince Georges County, Maryland;

(2) adjacent to, or in conjunction with (A) the George Washington Memorial Parkway; (B) the Little Falls Branch Parkway from the George Washington Memorial Parkway to the vicinity of Massachusetts Avenue; (C) the Parkway Spur through the Cabin John Valley from Cabin John to

the Capital Beltway; and (D) the Capital Beltway
from the George Washington Memorial Parkway
to the vicinity of Bradley Boulevard, all in Mont-
gomery County, Maryland:

Provided, That the Agency is further authorized to car- Construction.
ry out, as part of part 1 of its transit development pro-
gram, such construction in connection with the land ac-
quisition projects provided for herein, as must neces-
sarily be undertaken at the time the aforesaid highways
and parkways are constructed: Provided further, That
the authority granted the Agency under subparagraph
(2) above shall in no way diminish the powers of the
Secretary of the Interior under other Federal laws.

3. Mississippi River Parkway Project

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Survey to determine feasibility of parkway authorized__.

Mississippi
River Parkway.
Appropriation
authorized for
survey.
Post, p. 980.

Report to
Congress.

Time limitation.

An Act To authorize the survey of a proposed Mississippi River Parkway for the purpose of determining the feasibility of such a national parkway, and for other purposes, approved August 24, 1949 (63 Stat. 626)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum not exceeding $250,000 to be used by the Department of the Interior through the National Park Service and by the Federal Works Agency through the Public Roads Administration to make a joint survey of a route for a national parkway to be known as the Mississippi River Parkway. The survey shall follow, in general, the route of the Mississippi River. An estimate of cost of construction of the national parkway or any portions thereof found to be practicable by said survey, together with such other data as will be valuable, shall be obtained with the objective of determining the desirability of authorizing the construction of the parkway or any portion thereof. A report of the survey, upon its completion, shall be transmitted to the Congress by the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, together with their recommendations thereon.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency are hereby directed to complete such joint survey within two years after the enactment of this Act.

4. Natchez Trace Parkway

Secretary of the Interior authorized to enter into agreement for relocating
portions of parkway--

Act of August 25, 1958
Purchase and exchange of land authorized_
--Act of June 30, 1961
Ackia Battleground and Meriwether Lewis National Monuments included
in Natchez Trace Parkway--
Act of August 10, 1961

An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement for relocating portions of the Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, and for other purposes, approved August 25, 1958 (72 Stat. 839)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into an agreement with the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District which shall provide for the district, upon terms and conditions which the Secretary determines are in the public interest, to relocate those portions of sections 3-0 and 3-N of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Madison County, Mississippi, required in connection with the Pearl River Reservoir.

SEC. 2. To cooperate in the relocation, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to transfer to the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District the aforesaid portions of the existing Natchez Trace Parkway lands and roadway in exchange for the contemporaneous transfer to the United States of relocated parkway lands and roadway situated and constructed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement authorized by the first section of this Act: Provided, That such exchange shall be made on the basis of approximately equal values.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept and to use until expended without additional authority any funds provided by the district for the purpose of this Act pursuant to agreement with the Secretary of the Interior, and any such funds shall be placed in a separate account in the Treasury which shall be available for such purpose. (16 U.S.Č. § 460 note.)

An Act To authorize the purchase and exchange of land and interests therein on the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace Parkways, approved June 30, 1961 (75 Stat. 196)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to consolidate, on the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Natchez Trace Parkway, the land forming each such parkway, to adjust ownership lines, and to eliminate hazardous crossings of and accesses to these parkways, the Secretary of the Interior

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