Rivers and Harbors, Flood Control 1954: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session on H.R. 9859, an Act Authorizing the Construction, Repair, and Preservation of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors for Navigation, Flood Control, and for Other Purposes. July 22 and 23, 1954 |
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acre-feet Annual benefits approved Army engineers benefit-cost ratio Board of Engineers bridge Budget Chairman channel improvement Chief of Engineers city of Mandan Colonel ALLEN Colonel STARBIRD Congressman conservation construction Corps of Engineers County dam and reservoir damage depth Detroit Beach drainage dredging Eighty-third Congress Engineers for Rivers estimated cost existing project facilities Federal Government feet deep Flood Control Act flood protection Heart River hereby House Document Numbered industrial interests irrigation ITSCHNER Lake land levee located Lock Haven Louis lower Heart River maintenance Mandan miles million Mississippi River Missouri Morton County navigation omnibus bill Pascagoula percent Plan of recommended Port Washington present Project economics proposed Purgatoire River railroad record refinery relocations Report authorized Richmond rights-of-way Rivers and Harbors route San Lorenzo River Senator BUSH Senator HOLLAND Senator KUCHEL ships statement Tacoma Thank tion Trinidad Truckee River UNITED STATES SENATOR valley Waterway
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Page 1 - That the following works of improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, flood control, and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports...
Page 6 - That penstocks and other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam...
Page 6 - The following works of improvement for the benefit of navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 13 - ... when the Secretary of the Army determines such action to be in the public interest, and for such periods of time and upon such conditions...
Page 13 - Army may deem necessary. No use of any area to which this section applies shall be permitted which is inconsistent with the laws for the protection of fish and game of the State in which such area is situated. All moneys received for leases or privileges shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.
Page 6 - Provided, That the authorization for any flood-control project herein adopted requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from the date on which local interests are notified in writing by the Department of the Army of the requirements of local cooperation, unless said interests shall within said time furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the required cooperation will be furnished.
Page 147 - Avenue to the navigation turning basin ; all generally in accordance with the plans of the district engineer, and with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 12 - States for flood control, navigation, and allied purposes, including the development of hydroelectric power, shall be paid at the end of such year by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State in which such property is situated, to be expended as the State legislature may prescribe for...
Page 12 - And provided further, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law.
Page 138 - States of $2,252,000 for construction; provided that local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army...