Volume 68 · 99
Public Law 83–361
To provide for the construction of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial at the site of old Saint Louis. Missouri, in general accordance with the plan approved by the United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission, and for other purposes.
Approved May 17, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the construction of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial at the site of old Saint Louis. Missouri, in general accordance with the plan approved by the United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission, and for other purposes.
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 constructed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial National Historic Site, Saint Louis, Missouri, an appropriate national memorial to those persons who made possible the territorial expansion of the United States, including President Thomas Jefferson and his aides, Livingston and Monroe, who negotiated the Louisiana Purchase, the great explorers, Lewis and Clark, and the hardy hunters, trappers, frontiersmen, pioneers, and others who contributed to such expansion.
Sec. 2.
The memorial authorized herein shall be constructed in
Contracts, employment, etc.
general, in accordance with the plan approved by the United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission on May 25, 1948. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into such contracts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Secretary is also authorized to employ, in his discretion, by contract or otherwise, landscape architects, architects, engineers, sculptors, artists, other expert consultants, or firms, partnerships, or associations thereof, and to include in any such contract provision for the utilization of the services and facilities, and the payment of the travel and other expenses, of their respective organizations, in accordance with the usual customs of the several professions and at the prevailing rates for such services and facilities, without regard to the civil-service laws or regulations, the Classification Act of 1949, section 3709 of the Revised
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Statutes, as amended, or any other law or regulation relating to either employment or compensation.
The Secretary of the Interior, in connection with the construction
Easements, etc.
and operation of the memorial, is authorized to grant such easements as are in the public interest, and, in his discretion, to convey to the city of Saint Louis for aboveground parking structures, under such terms and conditions as he may consider to be compatible with maintaining the integrity, appearance, and purposes of said memorial, such portion of the historic site as may in his judgment be excluded therefrom without detriment thereto, subject, however, to reversion of such portion of the historic site to the United States if such excluded area ceases to be used for parking purposes by said city.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant easements for the purpose of erecting underground structures suitable for public protection under such terms and conditions as he may consider to be compatible with maintaining the integrity, appearance, and purposes of said memorial.
Sec. 3.
The memorial project authorized herein shall not be undertaken
Relocation of railroad tracks.
until there shall have been reached an agreement satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior providing for the relocation of the railroad tracks and structures now situated on lands adjacent to the Jefferson National Expansion, Memorial National Historic Site, between the boundary of the site and the river. Such agreement shall contain such terms as may be deemed desirable by the Secretary but shall contain a provision limiting the Federal expenditure of funds in connection with such relocation of the tracks and structures to work undertaken within the historic site area.
Sec. 4.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to
Appropriation.
exceed $5,000,000 to complete certain elements of the memorial as authorized by this Act. These elements are specifically described as (1) railroad relocation, $1,875,000; (2) grading and filling, $1,125,000; (3) landscaping, $500,000; (4) paved areas, utilities, and so forth, $900,000; and (5) restoration of Old Courthouse, $600,000. Funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act shall be expended by the United States for construction of the memorial in the ratio of $3 of Federal funds for each $1 of money contributed hereafter by the city of Saint Louis or other non-Federal source for purposes of the memorial, and for such purposes the Secretary is authorized to accept from the said city or other non-Federal sources, and to utilize for purposes of this Act, any money so contributed: Provided, That the value of any land hereafter contributed by the city of Saint Louis shall be excluded from the computation of the city’s share.
The authorization for an appropriation contained in subsection
Restrictions.
(a) shall not be effective until such time as—
the receipts of the Government for the preceding fiscal year have exceeded the expenditures of the Government for such year, as determined by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget; or
the budget submitted to the Congress by the President
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under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, reveals that the estimated receipts of the Government for the fiscal year for which such budget is submitted are in excess of the estimated expenditures of the Government for such fiscal year.
Sec. 5.
The authorization for an appropriation contained in this
Arch.
Act shall not be deemed to authorize the appropriation of any funds to be available for expenditure in any manner for the planning or construction of the stainless steel arch provided for in the so-called “Saarinen Plan”, approved May 25, 1948, by the United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission, or any modification of such arch, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed not to expend any Government funds in planning for or constructing such arch or any modification thereof.
Approved May 17, 1954.