Control of Flood Waters of the Brazos River, Texas: Hearing Before a Subcommittee ... 74th Congress, 1st Session on S. 2092, a Bill to Control Waters of the Brazos River and Its Tributaries in the State of Texas, to Aid and Improve Agriculture and Industrial Development Within Said River Basin, and for Other Purposes. March 12, 1935Considers (74) S. 2092. |
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Abraham Streiff acre-feet agency aid and improve amount appropriated approximately BENNETT CHAMP CLARK BILL TO CONTROL Board of Water Brazoria County Brazos district Brazos River Conservation Brazos River district Brazos River Project Brazos River rises Brazos watershed COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE complete Conservation and Reclamation construction drought relief electric energy estimate expended Federal Government flood control fork GIBSON Henry Dunlavy hereinafter referred Interior irrigation JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY kilowatt-hours liquidate loan main stream Mexico million acres moneys MORRIS SHEPPARD municipal National Resources Board NORRIS North Dakota percent power dams President may designate property loss proposed rainfall Reclamation District repayment reservoirs river basin Secretary of Agriculture Senator BILBO Senator CONNALLY Senator COPELAND Senator Sheppard chairman silt spillway square miles statement storage reservoirs storms subcommittee sufficient Texas Texas Relief Commission THEODORE G three hundred tion Tom Connally transmission lines tributaries United UNITED STATES SENATE Water Engineers
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Page 3 - ... excess of the amount necessary for construction, operation, and maintenance, and payment of interest. Upon receipt of each such certificate the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to charge the fund with the amount so certified as repayment of the advances made under subdivision (b), which amount shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts.
Page 2 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and accomplish the purposes of this Act.
Page 2 - Dam fund" (hereinafter referred to as the "fund"), and to be available, as hereafter provided, only for carrying out the provisions of this act. All revenues received in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid into and expenditures shall be made out of the fund, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 3 - The Secretary of the Interior shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, at the close of each fiscal year, the amount of money in the fund in excess of the amount necessary for construction, operation and maintenance, and payment of interest. Upon receipt of each such certificate the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to charge the fund- with the...
Page 2 - Interior. (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance to the fund, from time to time and within the appropriations therefor, such amounts as the Secretary of the Interior deems necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act, except that the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed the sum of...
Page 2 - 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...
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Page 2 - All payments or advances to said district, and all moneys received therefrom, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall be made from, or received into said fund, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, or such agency the President may direct.
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Page 2 - Act; shall approve any and all plans and specifications for the construction of safd project; they 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...