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Volume 53 · 1082

Public Law 76–355

Granting the consent of Congress to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware to construct, maintain, and operate a pipe-line bridge across the Missouri River.

Approved July 25, 1939

Statutory text

AN ACT

Granting the consent of Congress to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware to construct, maintain, and operate a pipe-line bridge across the Missouri River.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the consent of

Missouri River.

Pipe-line bridge authorized across, Dakota Co., Nebr., to Woodbury Co., Iowa.

Congress is hereby granted to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a pipe-line bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River from a point in Dakota County in the State of Nebraska to a point in Woodbury County in the State of Iowa, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation: Provided, That the work shall not be

Provisos.

Submission of plans.

commenced until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and by the Secretary of War: Provided further, That in approving the plans

Conditions and stipulations imposed.

for said pipe-line bridge, such conditions and stipulations may be imposed as the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War may deem necessary to protect the present and future interests of the United States.

Sec. 2.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to Northern Natural Gas Company of Delaware, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is fully authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

Sec. 3.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 25, 1939.

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