Financing.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Financing.—Whenever a limited access facility has been planned, designed, and established under the provisions of this Act, the complete financing of the construction thereof shall be provided by Congress in the annual Public Works Appropriation Act, under such long-term financing plans as may be found proper and feasible so as to expedite the construction in order that it can be completed m an estimated period of not more than three years. The initial expenditures for investigating, surveying, planning and designing the limited access facilities shall be carried under such financial arrangements as can now be adequately provided under the provisions of Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred seventeen, including the acquisition of property and property rights for such limited access facilities and service roads as provided under section five hereof. In addition to the existing available sources of funds under Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred seventeen, the Department of Public Works and Communications may avail of the financing arrangements authorized under Act Numbered Three thousand five hundred, as amended by Republic Acts Numbered One thousand four hundred two and One thousand four hundred thirty-five, and Republic Act Numbered One thousand, to take care of the initial expenditures for the acquisition of rights-of-way, construction of stream-crossing facilities, and such contiguous sections of the limited access highways as can adequately be met from continuing appropriations under these Acts, and from savings in the expenditure of the proceeds from the issue of bonds under Republic Act Numbered One thousand previously authorized by Congress for national road improvements and construction in the provinces and cities traversed by such limited access highway facilities. For the purposes of this section, section six of Republic Act Numbered Nine hundred seventeen, otherwise known as the Philippine Highway Act of Nineteen hundred fifty-three, is hereby amended to provide a new paragraph, immediately after paragraph (d) thereof, to be known as paragraph (e) to read as follows: "(e) Highway Engineering Fund.—One per centum of the Highway Special Fund shall be set aside and made available until expended for engineering, statistical and economic investigation, studies and planning, including the design, preparation of advance plans, working drawings and specifications, and undertaking such other procedure preliminary to actual construction of highways, limited access highways and facilities included, including expenditures for salaries and wages and other expenses of necessary technical personnel engaged to undertake the work hereinabove mentioned."