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791

PUBLIC LAW 5 9 2 - J U L Y 19, 1952

with the personnel, records, property, and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and all other funds, including trust funds, of the National Capital P a r k and Planning Commission, are hereby transferred to the Commission. a APPROPRIATIONS

"SEC. 10. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated and in any appropriate appropriation Act other than the annual District of Columbia Appropriation Act, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 1 to 10 of this Act, as amended, any existing provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding." SEC. 2. Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the Act approved June 6, 1924, as amended, shall be renumbered as sections 11, 12, and 13. Sections 1 and 2 of this Act may be cited as the "National Capital Planning Act of 1952". SEC. 3. The first section of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, authorizing appropriations for the acquisition and development of lands for the park and parkway system of the National Capital, is hereby amended— (1) by striking out "$9,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$13,500,000". (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(c) For the extension of the park and parkway system of the National Capital in the Virginia environs of Washington, as may be agreed upon between the National Capital Planning Commission and a park authority established under the Park Authorities Act of the State of Virginia (and such other public bodies as may be authorized under the laws of the State of Virginia), up the valleys of Hunting Creek, Cameron Run, Holmes Run, Tripps Run, Four Mile Run, Pimmit Run, Accotink Creek, and tributaries of such streams, and over other desirable lands, $4,500,000. No part of such sum shall be expended by the United States for any unit of such extension until the National Capital Planning Commission has received definite commitments from such park authority (and other public bodies) of the State of Virginia for two-thirds of the cost of acquiring the lands in its judgment necessary for such unit of the extension deemed by the Commission sufficiently complete. The title to the lands acquired hereunder shall vest in, and the development and administration thereof shall be under, such park authority or the State of Virginia in accordance with plans approved by the National Capital Planning Commission. Such lands shall not be used for any purpose other than the development and completion of the extension of the park and parkway system provided for in this paragraph, except with the approval and consent of the National Capital Planning Commission. No appropriation authorized in this paragraph shall be available for expenditure until a suitable agreement has been entered into between the National Capital Planning Commission and the appropriate local authority as to sewage disposal and storm-water flow." Approved July 19, 1952.

^o use 72-74. Short title. D. C. C o d e 810 2 note, 8-106

Restrictions.