Flood Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4485 ... May 29-June 15, 1944 |
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... Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War De- partment under the direction of the Secretary of War ...
... Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War De- partment under the direction of the Secretary of War ...
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... Federal , State , or local governmental agencies for the use of areas suitable for public park and recreational purposes may be granted without monetary consideration when the Secretary of War determines such action to be in the public ...
... Federal , State , or local governmental agencies for the use of areas suitable for public park and recreational purposes may be granted without monetary consideration when the Secretary of War determines such action to be in the public ...
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... Federal Power Commission , with reference to the pending bill [ reading ] : REPORT OF FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ON H. R. 4485 , A BILL AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS ON RIVERS AND HARBORS FOR FLOOD CONTROL , AND FOR ...
... Federal Power Commission , with reference to the pending bill [ reading ] : REPORT OF FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ON H. R. 4485 , A BILL AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS ON RIVERS AND HARBORS FOR FLOOD CONTROL , AND FOR ...
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... Federal Power Commission , the Land Use Coordinator of the Department of Agriculture , and the Chief of Engineers . This agreement is an extension of a similar agree- ment which has been in effect since 1939. Among other things , it pro ...
... Federal Power Commission , the Land Use Coordinator of the Department of Agriculture , and the Chief of Engineers . This agreement is an extension of a similar agree- ment which has been in effect since 1939. Among other things , it pro ...
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... Federal flood - control program . Additional projects on which reports have been submitted by the Department since the hearings of the House Flood Control Committee are now before this committee for consideration . I have spoken in ...
... Federal flood - control program . Additional projects on which reports have been submitted by the Department since the hearings of the House Flood Control Committee are now before this committee for consideration . I have spoken in ...
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acre-feet acres agency agricultural amendment Army engineers authorized BARNES BASHORE benefits built Bureau of Reclamation Calif California CALLAND canal Central Valley project Chairman Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri Colonel GOETHALS Congress conservation construction Corps of Engineers County Creek Department Dummerston farm feet Flood Control Committee flood damage flood protection flood-control bill flood-control project going high dam House Document improvement interests Interior irrigation district Kern River KERR Kings River land levees low dam miles Missouri River multiple-purpose navigation operation percent proposed purposes recommended River Basin River project Rivers and Harbors ROBINS Sacramento River San Joaquin River Secretary Senator AIKEN Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator CLARK Senator CORDON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLIKIN Senator OVERTON Senator ROBERTSON Shasta Dam SHUTLER statement storage streams Table Mountain Dam tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuolumne River United water supply watershed West River Williamsville
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Page 719 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 719 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 719 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 33 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 808 - Preference in the .sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives.
Page 249 - 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 249 - 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 and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes...
Page 251 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 42 - The Constitution of the United States provides that " the Congress shall have power "" to regulate commerce
Page 808 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.