THE COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL. SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT OF STATE WATER 120192 FEBRUARY 7, 8, AND 9, 1935 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1935 14 CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT OF CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1935 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee this day met at 10:40 a. m., Hon. Riley J. Wilson, chairman, presiding, to consider H. R. 4122 and H. R. 4128, identical bills, as follows: [H. R. 4122 and 4128] A BILL To improve navigation and to control destructive flood waters on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in the State of California; to aid and improve agriculture and industrial development within said river basins; and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of improvement of navigation on the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in the State of California; to control destructive flood waters in said Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basin; to aid and improve agriculture and industry within said basins; to provide for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making the project hereinafter referred to a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking; to provide for the economic and social well-being of the people of the State of California, and for other beneficial purposes, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums of money as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of $170,000,000. SEC. 2. All moneys authorized to be appropriated by this Act shall be made available as herein provided for expenditure by the Water Project Authority, a body politic and corporate, created in and by an Act of the Legislature of the State of California passed and adopted at the legislative session of 1933, and designated the "Central Valley Project Act of 1933" (ch. 1042, Statutes of 1933), and thereafter approved by the people of the State of California at a special election held in said State on December 19, 1933; said moneys to be expended, subject to the provisions of this Act, for the purpose of the acquisition of the necessary rights and properties and the construction by said Water Project Authority of the Central Valley project, as said project and the construction thereof is authorized, set forth, and provided for in said Central Valley Project Act of 1933, and hereinafter referred to as "project." SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of War shall have and exercise joint power and authority in administering this Act. SEC. 4. The said Secretary of the Interior and the said Secretary of War shall authorize and approve all expenditures to be made under this Act; shall approve any and all plans and specifications for the construction of said Central Valley project; shall exercise general supervision and control over the construction of said project to the extent necessary to insure substantial compliance with the approved plans and specifications; shall approve all contracts entered into by said Water Project Authority for the sale, use, or disposal of water and electric energy or other facilities to be made available by the operation of said project as to their suffiency in matters of both form and substance, and shall have and exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary, or appropriate to insure the proper application of the funds made 1 |