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[CITE: 33USC523]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                CHAPTER 11--BRIDGES OVER NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                  SUBCHAPTER II--ALTERATION OF BRIDGES
 
Sec. 523. Relocation of bridges

    If the owner of any bridge and the Secretary shall agree that in 
order to remove an obstruction to navigation, or for any other purpose, 
a relocation of such bridge or the construction of a new bridge upon a 
new location would be preferable to an alteration of the existing 
bridge, such relocation or new construction may be carried out at such 
new site and upon such terms as may be acceptable to the bridge owner 
and the Secretary, and the cost of such relocation or new construction, 
including also any expense of changes in and additions to rights-of-way, 
stations, tracks, spurs, sidings, switches, signals, and other railroad 
facilities and property, and relocation of shippers required for 
railroad connection with the bridge at the new site, shall be 
apportioned as between the bridge owner and the United States in the 
manner which is provided for in section 516 of this title in the case of 
an alteration and the share of the United States paid from the 
appropriation authorized in section 518 of this title: Provided, That 
nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the United 
States to pay any part of the expense of building any bridge across a 
navigable stream which the Secretary of Transportation shall not find to 
be, in fact, a relocation of an existing bridge.

(June 21, 1940, ch. 409, Sec. 13, 54 Stat. 502; July 16, 1952, ch. 889, 
Sec. 4, 66 Stat. 733; Pub. L. 97-449, Sec. 2(d)(1), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 
Stat. 2440.)


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-449 substituted ``Secretary of Transportation'' for 
``Secretary of War''. See Transfer of Functions note below.
    1952--Act July 16, 1952, struck out ``used for railroad traffic'' 
after ``owner of any bridge''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Section 6(g)(3) of Pub. L. 89-670 transferred functions, powers, and 
duties of Secretary of the Army [formerly War] and other officers and 
offices of Department of the Army [formerly War] relating to obstructive 
bridges under this subchapter to Secretary of Transportation. Pub. L. 
97-449 amended this section to reflect transfer made by section 6(g)(3) 
of Pub. L. 89-670, and repealed section 6(g)(3).