Volume 50
Public Law 75–648
To authorize improvement of navigation facilities on the Columbia River, and for other purposes.
Approved August 16, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize improvement of navigation facilities on the Columbia River, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause such alterations in existing bridges across the Columbia River at Cascade Locks and Hood River, Oregon, as will render navigation for oceangoing vessels in the pool formed by the Bonneville Dam reasonably
Reimbursement of owners for costs of alterations.
free, easy, and unobstructed, and to reimburse the owners of said bridges for the actual cost of such alterations from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for maintenance and improvement of rivers and harbors.
Approved, August 16, 1937.