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The Montlake Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that carries State Route 513 (Montlake Boulevard) over Seattle 's Montlake Cut —part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal —connecting Montlake and the University District .

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32-496: It is the easternmost bridge spanning the canal. The bridge is 344 feet (105 m) long, and was designed by Carl F. Gould , one of the original architects of the University of Washington campus. The bridge and its control towers were designed in conjunction with the university's Collegiate Gothic style. It provides a clearance of 46 feet (14 m) and is reported as providing 48 feet (15 m) of vertical clearance above

64-658: A clearance width of 146 feet (45 m) and 129 feet (39 m) in the open position. This bridge can be hailed on channel 13 or using appropriate horn request, of one long and one short, for an opening. Normal bridge opening restrictions Monday through Friday except federal holidays differs here than all the rest of the drawbridges on the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Restrictions are from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. from April 30 to September 1 and from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. from September 1 to April 30. Additionally,

96-602: A design derived from the Chicago bascule bridge, but is unique because of its trunnion supports, employed to avoid a patent infringement lawsuit by the Strauss Bascule Bridge Company . Piers and abutments for a permanent bridge were built in 1914 as part of construction for the Ship Canal, but a serious proposal for a bridge at Montlake didn't come until 1916. The first bridge in its place

128-550: A firm that soon won the commission to plan the University of Washington campus (1915). Thereafter Bebb and Gould completed a number of campus buildings; most important was Suzzallo Library (1922–1927). From this auspicious start, the firm emerged as leading designers of institutional and other buildings in the Pacific Northwest. Their work included residences, churches, schools, hospitals, memorials, club houses, commercial structures and other buildings. The firms work

160-470: A local parade that drew thousands of residents. A report from 1993 states that the Montlake Bridge averaged a volume of 60,900 vehicles each weekday, while another report from 2001 puts normal weekend traffic across the bridge at about 40,000 vehicles each day. In addition to the vehicular traffic, the bridge conveys pedestrians and bicyclists across the canal by way of sidewalks on each side of

192-671: A one" or similar. While new regulations are continually becoming effective, the printed volumes of the CFR are issued once each calendar year, on this schedule: The Office of the Federal Register also keeps an unofficial, online version of the CFR, the e-CFR, which is normally updated within two days after changes that have been published in the Federal Register become effective. The Parallel Table of Authorities and Rules lists rulemaking authority for regulations codified in

224-591: A process that includes (a) publication of the proposed rules in a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), (b) certain cost-benefit analyses, and (c) request for public comment and participation in the decision-making, and (d) adoption and publication of the final rule, via the Federal Register . Rulemaking culminates in the inclusion of a regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations. Such regulations are often referred to as "implementing regulations" vis-a-vis

256-642: A substantive scope (typically using language such as "The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to [accomplish some purpose or within some scope]" and (b) procedural requirements (typically to invoke rulemaking requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA, codified at 44 U.S.C.   §§ 3501 – 3521 ), Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA, codified at 5 U.S.C.   §§ 601 – 612 ), and several executive orders (primarily Executive Order 12866 )). Generally, each of these laws requires

288-437: A survey they conducted "revealed that members of the public, librarians, researchers, students, attorneys, and small business owners continue to rely on the print" version of the Federal Register . AALL also argued that the lack of print versions of the Federal Register and CFR would mean the 15 percent of Americans who do not use the internet would lose their access to that material. The House voted on July 14, 2014, to pass

320-858: Is published as a special issue of the Federal Register by the Office of the Federal Register (part of the National Archives and Records Administration ) and the Government Publishing Office . In addition to this annual edition, the CFR is published online on the Electronic CFR (eCFR) website, which is updated daily. Congress frequently delegates authority to an executive branch agency to issue regulations to govern some sphere. These statutes are called "authorizing statute" or "enabling statute" (or "authorizing legislation"). Authorizing statutes typically have two parts:

352-721: Is the headquarters of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington. Code of Federal Regulations In the law of the United States , the Code of Federal Regulations ( CFR ) is the codification of the general and permanent regulations promulgated by the executive departments and agencies of the federal government of the United States . The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to federal regulation. The CFR annual edition

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384-563: The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After his return to New York, he apprenticed with McKim, Mead and White , D. H. Burnham & Company , and George B. Post and Sons . In 1908 Gould moved to Seattle . After working briefly for other architects, Gould initiated his own practice. His early commissions were primarily residential. One of his first commissions was a Dutch/gothic style residence on Federal Ave in Seattle that

416-459: The CFR. The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad subject areas: The Federal Register Act originally provided for a complete compilation of all existing regulations promulgated prior to the first publication of the Federal Register , but was amended in 1937 to provide a codification of all regulations every five years. The first edition of the CFR was published in 1938. Beginning in 1963 for some titles and for all titles in 1967,

448-555: The Office of the Federal Register began publishing yearly revisions, and beginning in 1972 published revisions in staggered quarters. On March 11, 2014, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the Federal Register Modernization Act (H.R. 4195; 113th Congress) , a bill that would revise requirements for the filing of documents with the Office of the Federal Register for inclusion in the Federal Register and for

480-532: The University of Washington.) Work slowed thereafter, as the Depression limited opportunities, although the firm designed several more University of Washington buildings in this period, and, as campus architects after 1932, supervised designs by other architects. In 1933 Gould was commissioned to design a new building to house the Everett Public Library . A masterwork of early-thirties design,

512-708: The architecture program at the University of Washington . As the lead designer in the firm Bebb and Gould , with his partner, Charles H. Bebb , Gould was responsible for many notable Pacific Northwest buildings, such as the original Seattle Art Museum and for the campus plan of the University of Washington. He was born in New York City to wealthy tea merchant Charles Judson Gould and Annie E Westbrook Gould and spent his childhood between houses on West 50th Street in Manhattan and suburban Nyack, New York . He graduated from Harvard in 1898, then spent five years at

544-479: The authorizing statute. The rules and regulations are first promulgated or published in the Federal Register . The CFR is structured into 50 subject matter titles. Agencies are assigned chapters within these titles. The titles are broken down into chapters, parts, sections and paragraphs. For example, 42 C.F.R. § 260.11(a)(1) would indicate "title 42, part 260, section 11, paragraph (a)(1)." Conversationally, it would be read as "forty-two C F R two-sixty point eleven

576-481: The bridge in its closed position. The bridge creates a bottleneck for traffic heading to and from State Route 520 (SR-520), and the creation of alternate routes has been proposed multiple times over the years. Traffic can become backed up for more than a mile when the bridge is open, as can be seen in aerial photographs. Plans to replace SR-520 include adding a second bascule bridge across the Montlake Cut next to

608-614: The current Montlake Bridge. The Montlake Bridge is celebrated as the site of boating season's "opening day" festivities the first Saturday in May. The bridge was constructed by the city of Seattle at a cost of $ 670,000. The steel was fabricated and erected by the Wallace Equipment Company. A. Munster, acting bridge engineer of the City of Seattle supervised the construction, J. D. Blackwell was city engineer and D. W. McMorris

640-632: The draw may only open on the top and bottom of the hour from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Further navigation restriction can be found within the Code Federal Regulations and the Notice to Mariners . Carl F. Gould Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (24 November 1873 – 4 January 1939) also spelled Carl Freylinghausen Gould , was an architect in the Pacific Northwest , and founder and first chair of

672-488: The mean regulated level of Lake Washington for the central 100 feet (30 m) of the bascule span. It is one of four original bascule-type drawbridges over the Ship Canal, the others being the Ballard , Fremont , and University bridges. It was the last one to be completed, has the highest clearance of the four, and is the only one that is part of the state highway system . It is also one of six bascule bridges based on

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704-433: The new Everett Public Library opened to the public on October 3, 1934. He died on 4 January 1939. Works by Gould or by his partnership include many that survive and/or are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These include: After Gould's unexpected death in 1939, Bebb took trusted employee John Paul Jones into the partnership and the firm was renamed Bebb and Jones. Overall, Carl F. Gould

736-696: The program belonged to the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (BAID), although Gould supplemented BAID programmes with studio assignments he and the other faculty developed themselves. He married Dorothy Wheaton Fay in 1915. Gould contributed to the U.S. effort in World War I, by designing a 3,000-worker community in Washington as a company town supporting the Spruce Production Division . The half-mile-square townsite

768-474: The publication of the Code of Federal Regulations to reflect the changed publication requirement in which they would be available online but would not be required to be printed. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) strongly opposed the bill, arguing that the bill undermines citizens' right to be informed by making it more difficult for citizens to find their government's regulations. According to AALL,

800-448: The roadway. The bridge does not open during morning and evening rush hours . It opens at designated times (usually on the hour and half-hour) during the hours just prior to and after rush periods, and on demand at other times. The bridge openings last for an average of four minutes from when traffic stops to when it resumes again. Most of the openings are for sailboats , as most of the tugs that operate this far east are able to pass under

832-431: Was a key figure in architecture and the arts in Seattle in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Gould's daughter, Anne Gould Hauberg continued to play a significant role in Seattle as patron of the arts today. In 1941 his daughter, Anne Westbrook Gould, married John Henry Hauberg Jr. The family papers are archived at the University of Washington . Carl F. Gould is also the namesake of Gould Hall, which

864-534: Was a makeshift walkway made from a series of barges , set up by graduate manager Dar Meisnest to allow football fans to cross for the Washington/ Dartmouth game in 1920. The temporary bridge was so heavily traveled, it demonstrated the need for a permanent structure, which was finished in June 1925. The permanent bridge was opened on June 27, 1925, a month ahead of schedule and as the centerpiece for

896-964: Was assistant engineer. The bridge and the Montlake Cut together are a City of Seattle Designated Landmark (ID 107995), and the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, as well as the Washington Heritage Register . It is owned and operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation . Montlake Bridge has two traffic lights one on either side of the Montlake Cut. These traffic lights are lit for large commercial traffic and if seen red small vessels need to proceed with caution of oncoming large commercial vessel. Height restriction are listed at 48 feet (15 m) at center and 32 feet (9.8 m) all together, with

928-768: Was elected a Fellow in the AIA in 1926. By the 1930s, Bebb's role in Bebb and Gould declined and the firm's work began to reflect the emergence of Art Deco . This new direction was reflected in the design for the Seattle Art Museum building (1931–1933) (now the Seattle Asian Art Museum ) in Volunteer Park . (The design of the front elevation reflects the influence of draftsman Walter Wurdeman who had joined Bebb and Gould after graduating from

960-666: Was laid out with bunkhouses, and dining and recreation halls styled after Adirondack lodges . Gould again served as President of the Seattle Fine Arts Society from 1926 to 1929 and was instrumental in its restructuring as the Art Institute of Seattle (predecessor to today's Seattle Art Museum ). Gould served as President of the American Institute of Architects Washington State Chapter (predecessor to AIA Seattle Chapter) from 1922 to 1924. He

992-543: Was stylistically eclectic, reflecting Gould's Beaux-Arts training and the tendencies of the period. Gould founded the University of Washington program in architecture in 1914 and served as the first chair of the Architecture Department (1914–1926). Gould modeled the program after that of the Beaux-Arts as it had been adapted by American collegiate programs in architecture. Throughout Gould's tenure

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1024-487: Was the home for several decades of Teddy Roosevelt's granddaughter. Gould quickly emerged as a leader in city planning, as he campaigned for Bogue Plan (1911), which proposed a City Beautiful civic center for the city. In 1912, Gould became president of the Seattle Fine Arts Society, serving until 1916. He also began giving lectures in domestic design at the University of Washington . In 1914, Gould partnered with Seattle architect Charles H. Bebb to form Bebb and Gould,

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