Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Part 1, Volume 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - Harbors

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Page 1563 - June 28, 1938, approved the general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Ohio River Basin as set forth in House Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as, in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 1293 - The sum of $25,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 1288 - The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin approved by the Act of June 28, 1938...
Page 1230 - The improvement is subject to the conditions that responsible local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project; (&) hold and save the United States free from damages...
Page 1408 - States, or municipalities; and provided further, mat in case high dams are built before the United States shall have built the projected locks and low dams which are to be replaced, the United States shall contribute to the cost of the substituted structures an amount equal to the estimated cost of the work of navigation for which substitution is made.
Page 1627 - The Flood Control Act of June 28, 1938, approved the general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Ohio River Basin as set forth in House Flood Control Committee Document No.
Page 1642 - Reservoirs; subject to the condition that for each local flood-protection project, no expenditures will be made until local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rightsof-way necessary for the construction of the project; (6) hold and save the United States free from damages...
Page 1200 - ... channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable in the interest of flood control: Provided, That not more than $250,000 shall be expended for this purpose for any single tributary from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.
Page 1359 - ... works to prevent flood damage to highways, bridge approaches, and public works, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable : Provided, That not more than $50,000 shall be allotted for this purpose at any single locality from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.
Page 1572 - ... of any flood control work threatened or destroyed by flood, including the strengthening, raising, extending or other modification thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers for the adequate functioning of the work for flood control.

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