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Secretary of Labor and the respective State highway departments information which will enable him to judge compliance with the requirements of this section and the Secretary of Labor shall render to the Secretary such assistance and information as he shall deem necessary to carry out the equal employment opportunity program required hereunder." (b) The analysis of chapter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "140. Equal employment opportunity."
(c) Subsection (b) of section 112 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Contracts for the construction of each project shall be awarded only on the basis of the lowest responsive bid submitted by a bidder meeting established criteria of responsibility. No requirement or obligation shall be imposed as a condition precedent to the award of a contract to such bidder for a project, or to the Secretary's concurrence in the award of a contract to such bidder, unless such requirement or obligation is otherwise lawful and is specifically set forth in the advertised specifications."
72 Stat. 895.
DISTRICT o r COLUMBIA
SEC. 23. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or any court decision or administrative action to the contrary, the Secretary of Transportation and the government of the District of Columbia shall, in addition to those routes already under construction, construct all routes on the Interstate System within the District of Columbia as set forth in the document entitled "1968 Estimate of the Cost of Completion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways in the District of Columbia" submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Transportation with, and as a part of, "The 1968 Interstate System Cost Estimate" printed as House Document Numbered 199, Ninetieth Congress. Such construction shall be undertaken as soon as possible after the date of enactment of this Act, except as otherwise provided in this section, and shall be carried out in accordance with all applicable provisions of title 23 of the United States Code. (b) Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this section the government of the District of Columbia shall commence work on the following projects: (1) Three Sisters Bridge, 1-266 (Section B l to B 2). (2) Potomac River Freeway, 1-266 (Section B2 to B4). (3) Center Leg of the Inner Loop, 1-95 (Section A6 to C 4), terminating at New York Avenue. (4) East Leg of the Inner I ^ o p, 1-295 (Section C l to C4), terminating at Bladensburg Road. (c) The government of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of Transportation shall study those projects on the Interstate System set forth in "The 1968 Interstate System Cost Estimate", House Document Numbered 199, Ninetieth Congress, within the District of Columbia which are not specified in subsection (b) and shall report to c^^^e^s^" Congress not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this °"^^^^' section their recommendations with respect to such projects including any recommended alternative routes or plans, and if no such recommendations are submitted within such 18-month period then the Secretary of Transportation and the government of the District of Columbia shall construct such routes, as soon as possible thereafter, as required by subsection (a) of this section. (d) For the purpose of enabling the District of Columbia to have its Federal-aid highway projects approved under section 106 or 117 of title 23, United States Code, the Commissioner of the District of 72 Stat. 892, '
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