62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 479, 480-JUNE 16, 1948 of this Act, but not to exceed $69,800,000, for public works in con- tinental United States during the fiscal year 1948, and $59,971,160 for public works outside continental United States during the fiscal year 1948. With respect to projects within and without continental United States, the approximate cost for each project enumerated in section 1 of this Act may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be varied upward or downward 10 per centum, but the total cost of projects in continental United States authorized by this Act shall not exceed $92,932,600, and the total cost of projects outside continental United States authorized by this Act shall not exceed $116,756,900. Any such appropriation shall be available under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for expenses incident to con- struction including administration, overhead, planning, and surveys, and shall be available until expended. Approved June 16, 1948. [CHAPTER 480] AN ACT Supplementing the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the State of Maryland, by and through its State Roads Commission or the successors of said commission to construct, maintain, and operate certain bridges across streams, rivers, and navigable waters which are wholly or partly within the State", approved April 7, 1938. Be it enacted vy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Maryland, by and through its State Roads Commission or the successors of said commission, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate, subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of section 502 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, (1) a bridge across or a tunnel under the Chesapeake Bay, in the State of Maryland, from a point in Anne Arundel County at or near Sandy Point to a point approximately opposite on Kent Island, or a combined bridge and tunnel at such location, and approaches thereto, and (2) a bridge across or a tunnel under the Patapsco River in the city of Baltimore from a point at or near the mouth of North West Branch to a point approximately opposite at or near Fairfield, and approaches thereto. SEC. 2 . The State of Maryland, by and through its State Roads Commission or the successors of said commission, is hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland for the use of each of the structures and facilities the con- struction of which is hereby authorized and to use such tolls in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland for the purposes hereinafter provided. SEC. 3 . The State of Maryland, by and through its State Roads Commission or the successors of said commission, may unite or group either or both of the bridges heretofore constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved April 7, 1938 (52 Stat. 205), across the Susquehanna River and the Potomac River with either or both of the structures and facilities the construction of which is hereby authorized into one or more projects for financing purposes. The rates of tolls charged for the use of each of the structures or facilities so included in any such project shall be so adjusted in accordance with the provisions of said Act of April 7, 1938, as to provide in the aggre- gate a fund not to exceed an amount sufficient to pay the reasonable costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating all of the structures or facilities included in the project, and their approaches, under eco- nomical management, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the aggregate cost of the structures or facilities hereby authorized included in the project, and their approaches, including 463 Variation of project costs. June 16, 1948 [S. 2201] [Public Law 654] Maryland. Construction, etc., of bridges. 60 Stat. 847. 33U.S.C. §525(b). Toll charges. Grouping ofprojects for financing purposes. Application of tolls to operation, sinking fund, etc.
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