768 Highways, etc. , damaged by Army or Navy. Reimbursement to States. Payment of claim. Proviso. Cooperative de- velopment, etc. Where street park- ing prohibited. Availability of funds. Provisos. Enforcement of parking prohibition. Restriction on cost. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 474-NOV. 19, 1941 [55 STAT. SEc. 10. EMERGENCY REPAIRS. -The Commissioner of Public Roads is authorized to reimburse the several States for the necessary rehabilitation or repair of roads and highways of States or their subdivisions substantially damaged by the Army or the Navy, or both. The Commissioner is authorized on behalf of the United States to consider, ascertain, adjust, and determine any claim accruing subse- quent to May 27, 1941, submitted by the State highway department of any State, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Com- missioner, for reimbursement of the cost of such rehabilitation or repair. Such amount as may be found to be due to any claimant shall be certified to Congress for payment out of appropriations that may be made by Congress therefor, together with a brief statement of the character of each claim, the amount claimed, and the amount allowed: Provided, That no claim shall be considered by the Commissioner unless notice of intention to file such claim has been presented to him within thirty days after the occurrence of the damage upon which the claim is based, except that in case of damage caused by maneuvers such notice shall be filed within thirty days after completion of such maneuvers: And provided further, That in either case such notice of damage accruing before the passage of this Act shall be filed within thirty days after the passage thereof. SEC. 11 . OFF-STREET PARKING. -In order to facilitate the flow of traffic on sections of the strategic network of highways forming bypasses around and connections into and through municipalities and metropolitan areas, the Commissioner of Public Roads is authorized to cooperate with the States in the location, development, and construc- tion of off-street facilities for the parking of vehicles, and projects for providing such facilities shall be considered to be highway projects. Where provision is made by any State for the permanent prohibition of parking of vehicles within the roadway or street portion of any through highway over which the State has been legally vested with traffic control and which forms a section of the strategic network of highways, funds heretofore or hereafter made available for expendi- ture in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Highway Act, as amended and supplemented, for construction and reconstruction on the system of Federal-aid highways, are hereby also made available, on the pro rata basis heretofore provided by law, for the location, development, and construction of off-street vehicle parking facilities to serve the area where parking on such highway is so prohibited, including the cost of acquiring the lands necessary for such facilities: Provided, That the Federal Works Administrator is authorized and directed to withhold from any allotment of Federal highway funds to any State a sum equal to the Federal share of the cost of any off- street parking facilities upon the failure of such State adequately to enforce such permanent prohibition of parking of vehicles within the roadway or street portion in connection with which Federal funds have been expended for the construction of such off-street parking facilities: And provided further, That the authority contained in this section shall not be exercised unless the Commissioner of Public Roads finds that the Federal share of the cost of providing such off-street parking facilities will be materially less than the Federal share of the cost of widening or relocating the section of the strategic network of highways which such off-street parking facilities are designed to serve, and that the benefits to be derived from the construction of off-street parking facilities will be substantially as great as the benefits to be derived from such widening or relocation. SEC. 12 . COST OF RIHT-OF-WAY ON STRATIEIC HIGHWAY NET- woRK. -When funds heretofore or hereafter made available for
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