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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters

§ 535b. Presidential approval; recommendations of Federal officials

Statutory text

No bridge may be constructed, maintained, and operated as provided in section 535 of this title unless the President has given his approval thereto. In the course of determining whether to grant such approval, the President shall secure the advice and recommendations of (1) the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, in the case of a bridge connecting the United States and Mexico, and (2) the heads of such departments and agencies of the Federal Government as he deems appropriate to determine the necessity for such bridge.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. International Bridge Act of 1972

    Pub. L. 92–434 § 4 · 86 Stat. 731

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 535b

    (Pub. L. 92–434, § 4, Sept. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 731.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 92–434, § 4, Sept. 26, 1972, 86 Stat. 731.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. No bridge may be constructed, maintained, and operated Presidential approval. as provided in section 2 unless the President has given his approval thereto. In the course of determining whether to grant such approval, the President shall secure the advice and recommendations of (1) the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, in the case of a bridge connecting the United States and Mexico, and (2) the heads of such departments and agencies of the Federal Government as he deems appropriate to determine the necessity for such bridge.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 92–434, § 4, , 86 Stat. 731.)

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