Pub. L. 91-611, tit. I, sec. 102

Sec. 102. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to cause an immediate study to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of a navigation channel, having a depth of seventeen feet at mean low water, and a width of one. hundred feet, extending a distance of approximately two and one-half miles from deep water in Saint Georges Creek, Maryland, to the. Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland, and terminating in a turning basin at that location. Such project because of its immediate and long-range value to the United States Merchant Marine and to national defense, is hereby authorized, at an estimated cost, of $475,000 as determined to be feasible and justified by the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of the Army with the approval of the President, unless within the first period of ninety calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the report is submitted to it, such report is disapproved by the Congress. The requirements for cooperation shall include, provisions that local interests shall furnish all lands, easements, and rights-of-way for construction and future maintenance of the project; hold and save the United States free from damages, and bear the cost of all spoil disposal areas.