Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress |
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... depth of 35 feet in the seaward section of the inner harbor at and below Maine State Pier , in an anchorage area of 170 acres between Diamond Island Ledge and House Island , and in the main ship channel entering the harbor from the ...
... depth of 35 feet in the seaward section of the inner harbor at and below Maine State Pier , in an anchorage area of 170 acres between Diamond Island Ledge and House Island , and in the main ship channel entering the harbor from the ...
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... depth of the present channel ? Colonel FERINGA . The shaded light part of the channel is 35 feet , and the part that is very heavy blue is now 30 feet , and we recommend that it be deepened to 35 feet . The CHAIRMAN . Very few ships ...
... depth of the present channel ? Colonel FERINGA . The shaded light part of the channel is 35 feet , and the part that is very heavy blue is now 30 feet , and we recommend that it be deepened to 35 feet . The CHAIRMAN . Very few ships ...
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... depth of the inner harbor itself . Colonel FERINGA . It is now 30 feet . Mr. RANKIN . Then you have to do some deepening after you get into the harbor ? Colonel FERINGA . That is what we are going to recommend — that it be deepened to ...
... depth of the inner harbor itself . Colonel FERINGA . It is now 30 feet . Mr. RANKIN . Then you have to do some deepening after you get into the harbor ? Colonel FERINGA . That is what we are going to recommend — that it be deepened to ...
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... depth to a 35 - foot channel and increase to 400 feet the bottom width . It is already 380 , but it shelves in . That is not a very great widening , but it is a good deepening . The reason is that we have 11 oil companies and a pipe ...
... depth to a 35 - foot channel and increase to 400 feet the bottom width . It is already 380 , but it shelves in . That is not a very great widening , but it is a good deepening . The reason is that we have 11 oil companies and a pipe ...
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... depth they felt they had too little under their keel . Now they have gone to a much bigger type of ship . I know at the December 1944 meeting in Portland Mr. Knappen , who spoke for the American Merchant Marine Institute , said that the ...
... depth they felt they had too little under their keel . Now they have gone to a much bigger type of ship . I know at the December 1944 meeting in Portland Mr. Knappen , who spoke for the American Merchant Marine Institute , said that the ...
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12 feet 28 feet 30 feet additional amount ANGELL annual carrying charges Army engineers authorized barge Baton Rouge Board of Engineers Calcasieu River canal cargo CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Colonel FERINGA Columbia River commerce Congress construction Coos Bay craft Creek damages deepening depth district engineer DONDERO dredging Engineers for Rivers estimated existing project facilities favor Federal feet 6 inches feet deep feet wide fishing flood control Gulf Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Harbor Act Harbors Committee industrial interests Intracoastal Waterway Johns River Lake Charles land LARCADE load located lock Louisiana lumber maintenance Mattaponi River Mermentau River miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation operation Oreg PETERSON of Georgia petroleum products PITTENGER port of Coos present proposed PYBURN railroads RANKIN Rivers and Harbors savings Schuylkill River Sioux City South statement tankers terminal tion tonnage tons traffic transportation tributary turning basin vessels WHEELER width
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Page 79 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 297 - Investigations which form the basis of any such plans, proposals, or reports shall be conducted in such a manner as to give to the affected State or States, during the course of investigations, information developed by the investigations and also opportunity for consultation regarding plans and proposals, and, to the extent deemed practicable by the Chief of Engineers, opportunity to cooperate in the investigations.
Page 298 - ... arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, Irrigation, mining or industrial purposes.
Page 298 - States (as defined in paragraph (a) of this section) , and to the Secretary of War, be subject to the same provisions regarding investigations, plans, proposals, and reports as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section for the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War.
Page 260 - To agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way and spoil-disposal areas for the new work in the improvement of the Hudson River and for subsequent maintenance when and if required.
Page 152 - ... assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will : (1 ) Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and spoil-disposal areas...
Page 272 - This, however, is subject to the conditions that local interests furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the...
Page 297 - ... affected State or States, during the course of the investigations, Information developed by the Investigations and also opportunity for consultation regarding plans and proposals, and, to the extent deemed practicable by the ChIef of Engineers, opportunity to cooperate In the Investigations.
Page 147 - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND HARBORS, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 : 30 am, Hon.
Page 75 - F2d 1286. Mr. Justice Douglas, whom Mr. Justice Black joins, dissenting. In 1945 Congress authorized the Benbrook Dam and Reservoir Project on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River near the southwest outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas. The authorization stated in part: "The improvement of the Trinity River and tributaries, Texas, for navigation, flood control, and allied purposes is hereby approved and authorized in accordance with the reports contained in House Document Numbered 403, Seventy-seventh Congress.