Pub. L. 83-704, tit. II, sec. 201

Sec. 201. (a) The Secretary of the Interior (referred to hereinafter as the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to construct, maintain, and operate a six-lane bridge over the Potomac River, from a point at or near Jones Point, Virginia, across a certain portion of the District of Columbia, to a point in Maryland, together with bridge approaches on property owned by the United States in the State of Virginia. (b) The bridge shall be of deck girder structure with a swing span having a one-hundred-and-fifty-foot horizontal clearance on each side of the pivot pier and a seventy-foot vertical clearance above mean low water, and shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 502 of the “General Bridge Act of 1946,” approved August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 847), as amended, and subject to the conditions and limitations in this title. (c) The Secretary shall request recommendations and suggestions of the National Capital Planning Commission relative to the design of such bridge and approaches.