Private Law 83–943

That the jurisdiction

Bunker Hill Development Corp.

conferred upon the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by subsection (b) of section 1346, title 28, United

62 Stat. 933.

States Code, is hereby extended to a civil action, which may be commenced not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, asserting any claim or claims of Bunker Hill Development Corporation, of Newburgh, New York, against the United States for alleged damages arising out of the construction of Stewart Field, a United States Air Force base located at Newburgh, New York, in such a manner as to allegedly damage its golf course and buildings as a result of weed-laden soil dust and cement dust blowing over its properties in 1942 and 1943, and to destroy a proposed housing development of said corporation, and for alleged damages to the property of said corporation by reason of the alleged failure of the Government to provide and maintain proper drainage from said Stewart Field, which resulted and successively results in the storm-flooding of the property of the corporation. Any such civil action may be joined for trial with any pending action between the Bunker Hill Development Corporation and the United States relative to damages in the construction of Stewart Field. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all provisions of law applicable in and to such subsection, and applicable to judgments therein and appeals therefrom, are made equally applicable in respect of the civil actions authorized by this Act. Nothing in this Act shall constitute an admission of liability on the part of the United States.