Parker Dam on the Colorado River and Grand Coulee Dam on the Colombia River: Hearings ... 74th Congress, 1st Session on H.R. 8057, a Bill to Authorize and Adopt Certain Public Works Projects for Controlling Floods, Improving Navigation, Regulating the Flow of Certain Streams of the United States, and for Other Purposes |
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All-American Canal allocated amendment amount appropriation Arizona Army engineers authorized and adopted bill Boulder Dam Bureau of Reclamation CARLSON CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Colonel EDGERTON Colorado River Columbia River COMMITTEE ON FLOOD completed decision DEMPSEY ENGLEBRIGHT FERGUSON flood control flood-control projects FORD Fort Peck Dam funds future allotments go ahead Government Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee project harbor improvement hereby authorized heretofore Hiss HOWARD incidental works necessary Indian Industrial Recovery Act Interior Department involved irrigation jurisdiction KIMBALL legislation MCCLELLAN MEAD ment Metropolitan District Metropolitan Water District National Industrial Recovery navigable river nonnavigable P. W. A. projects Parker Dam project projects listed Public Works Administration purpose reclamation projects Reclamation Service recommendation RICH river and harbor Secretary Six Companies statement storage Supreme Court surveys thing tion total cost understand United validated and ratified War Department WATHEN WEST WHITTINGTON ZIMMERMAN
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Page 52 - Grand Coulee Dam' on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified, and the President, acting through such agents as he may designate, is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain dams, structures, canals, and incidental works necessary to such projects, and in connection therewith to make and enter into any and all necessary contracts including contracts amendatory...
Page 1 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation, and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making, the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 1 - Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings...
Page 20 - Interior, or between the District and the United States, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, and...
Page 13 - Valley, the construction of a dam and reserdisposition of any real or personal property in connection with the construction of the project, in accordance with the terms of the convention of Feb. 1, 1933, concluded between the United States and Mexico, and proclaimed by the President of the United States on Nov. 13, 1933. The estimated total cost of the work to be performed in the United States amounts to $5,256,634.
Page 37 - STATEMENT OF DR. ELWOOD MEAD, COMMISSIONER, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASHINGTON, DC -.-•••,
Page 1 - ... as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings, the projects known as Parker Dam on the Colorado River and Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, are hereby authorized and adopted, and all contracts and agreements which have been executed in connection therewith are hereby validated and ratified...
Page 1 - IS. 2811, 74th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize and adopt certain Public Works projects for controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of certain streams of the United States, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Page 11 - States of treaty obligations heretofore assumed: Provided, That no river or harbor improvements shall be carried out unless they shall have heretofore or hereafter been adopted by the Congress or are recommended by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army...
Page 21 - ... the case. It has been. Under date of January 5, 1935, the Chief of Army Engineers did recommend this dam. The Court held, however, that that recommendation had not been made pursuant to an act adopted in 1899 which provides for the making of such recommendations upon the direction of Congress and is not to be read by itself but is to be read in connection with this earlier legislation. The Court referred to this National Industrial Recovery Act as a fragmentary provision which must be read in...