Pub. L. 85-500, tit. I, sec. 106

Sec. 106. That the improvement of Apalachicola Bay, Florida, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954 in accordance with72 Stat. 301 the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 156, Eighty-second Congress; and the improvement of Apalachicola Bay, Florida, channel across Saint George Island, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954, in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 557, Eighty-second Congress, are hereby modified to provide that the Secretary of the Army shall reimburse local interests for such work as they may have done upon the projects insofar as this work shall be approved by the Chief of Engineers and found to have been done in accordance with the projects adopted by the Act of 1954: Provided, That reimbursement shall be based upon the reduction in the amount of material which will have to be removed to provide project dimensions at such time as Federal dredging of the channels is undertaken: Provided further, That such reimbursement shall be subject to appropriations applicable thereto and shall not take precedence over authorized Federal improvements of higher priority.