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Public Law 86–313

To extend for an additional three years the time within which the State of Michigan may commence and complete the construction of certain projects heretofore authorized by the Congress.

Approved September 21, 1959

Statutory text

AN ACT

To extend for an additional three years the time within which the State of Michigan may commence and complete the construction of certain projects heretofore authorized by the Congress.

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

That the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the State of Michigan, acting through the International Bridge Authority of Michigan, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, across the Saint Marys River, from a point in or near the city of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, to a point in the Province of Ontario, Canada”, approved December 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 1222; Public Law 889, Seventy-sixth Congress), is hereby revived and reenacted : Provided, That this Act shall be null and void unless the actual construction of the bridge, or series of bridges, causeways, and approaches thereto, referred to in such Act of December 16, 1940, is commenced within three years, and completed within six years, from the date of enactment of this Act.

Sec. 2.

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

Approved September 21, 1959.

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