Volume 72 · 180
Public Law 85–446
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for other purposes”, approved August 30, 1954.
Approved June 4, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for other purposes”, approved August 30, 1954.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of subsection (a) of the first section of title I of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and direct the construction of bridges over the Potomac River, and for other purposes”, approved August 30, 1954, as precedes the words “together with” is amended to read as follows:
“That
(a) the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to construct forthwith, to maintain, and to operate a low-level bridge, to be known as the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, over the Potomac River, from a point north of and in the vicinity of Constitution Avenue in the District of Columbia to the Virginia side of the Potomac River, such bridge to cross such portion or portions of the two islands comprising Theodore Roosevelt Island at the location approved in writing on April 30, 1958, by the Theodore Roosevelt Association,”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (b) of the first section of title I of such Act is amended to read as follows:
“(b) The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to construct and maintain structures providing pedestrian access or vehicular access, or both, to Theodore Roosevelt Island if requested to do so by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the plans for any such structure shall be first approved by the Theodore Roosevelt Association.”
Subsection (c) of the first, section of such Act is hereby repealed and subsections (d) and (e) of such section are hereby redesignated as subsections (c) and (d), respectively.
Approved June 4, 1958.