Comprehensive Flood-control Plans: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on Report of the Chief of Engineers, April 6, 1937, House Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, and Subsequent Reports of the Chief of Engineers, and Amendments to the Flood Control Acts of June 15, 1936, June 22, 1936, and August 28, 1937. March 30 to April 19, 1938 |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres additional Allegheny Allegheny River amount approximately Arkansas River Army engineers authorized backwater benefits BENNINGTON bill Cairo capacity CARLSON CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers CLASON Colonel COVELL Colonel MOSES Colonel REYBOLD Colonel SCOTT Colonel STURDEVANT Commission committee compact Congress Connecticut River conservation contribution County Creek cubic feet DEMUTH Denison Dam dikes district easements estimated cost Eudora Federal Government FERGUSON Flood Control Act flood protection flood walls flowage funds glad Governor AIKEN hearings interests Kansas lands and damages levee Lieutenant Colonel WHEELER located Major SMITH Mayor MCCLELLAN McCLURE ment Merrimack River Mississippi River Missouri Morganza navigation Ohio River Oklahoma percent Pittsburgh present question recommended record Red River reservoirs rights-of-way River Basin SCHLEY Senator OVERTON SHUTLER Smoky Hill River square miles statement storage stream survey tion total cost tributaries TYLER Valley VOORHIS Washita ZIMMERMAN
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Page 824 - Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes...
Page 340 - The port authority shall constitute a body, both corporate and politic, with full power and authority to purchase, construct, lease and/or operate any terminal or transportation facility...
Page 347 - It is hereby recognized that destructive floods upon the rivers of the United States, upsetting orderly processes and causing loss of life and property, including the erosion of lands, and impairing and obstructing navigation, highways, railroads, and other channels of commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare...
Page 348 - A majority of the members from each State shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, but no action of the Commission shall be binding unless at least two of the members from each State shall vote in favor thereof.
Page 697 - This is to certify that the above is a true and correct copy of resolution adopted by the Irrigation Districts Association of California in convention assembled in San Diego, Calif., December 9, 1955.
Page 349 - The port authority shall have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the legislature of either State concurred in by the legislature of the other.
Page 566 - STATEMENT OF HON. JAMES W. MOTT, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT AND FOREST-FIRE COOPERATION Mr.
Page 340 - States, setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this agreement and any legislation thereunder.
Page 346 - This Compact shall become operative when approved by the legislature of each of the signatory States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice of approval shall be given by the Governor of each State to the Governors of the other States and to the President of the United States...
Page 349 - ... to appoint and employ such agents and employees as may be required in the proper performance of the duties hereby committed to it and to fix and determine their qualifications, duties and compensation; (4) to enter into such contracts and agreements and to do and perform any and all other acts, matters and things as may be necessary and essential to the full and complete performance of the powers and duties hereby committed...