Section 4. Authority to construct bridge.
Notwithstanding the authority granted to the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission in its compact to construct bridges across the Delaware River, the Secretary of Transportation, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation of the State of New Jersey and the United States Department of Transportation, is hereby authorized to construct, as part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, a bridge across the Delaware River in the vicinity of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Phillipsburg, New Jersey, within ten miles of the existing toll bridge owned and operated by the commission.