Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations for 1955: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil Functions and Military Construction of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 |
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acre-feet additional allocation amount authorized AVERAGE ANNUAL BENEFITS Average annual charges benefit-cost ratio bridge budget Buffalo Bureau CEDERBERG Chairman channel Chief of Engineers CHORPENING Colonel DIXON Colonel MARTZ Colonel POWERS Colonel STARBIRD Colonel WHIPPLE Columbia River committee Congress construction continuing contracts Corps of Engineers correct Creek damage Data on continuing DAVIS District drainage dredging easement employees estimated cost facilities feet fiscal year 1955 flood control funds going Government Governor SEYBOLD HAND increase interests June 30 Kentucky River Lake land levee lock and dam maintenance matter referred MEEHEAN miles million Mississippi River Missouri River navigation obligations Ohio River Omaha operation overall planning POTTER present problem Proposed in fiscal RABAUT railroad reduced referred to follows relocation request Reservoir RILEY schedule Sioux City STATEMENT OF AVERAGE structures studies STURGIS survey tion United waterway
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Page 31 - We would like for him to have a few moments, and then Mr. Dan Mitchell who is with the Knott Coal Co. of Hazard. Mr. CHINN. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I consider it an honor and a privilege to appear before your committee in behalf of the Buckhprn Kentucky Reservoir. My name is Orville Chinn, I am an engineer by profession, I am now the director of the Flood Control and Water Usage Division of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I am here at the request of the Buckhorn Watershed Association...
Page 82 - Lands in reservoir areas of navigation only projects. (c) Lands in reservoir areas of flood control only projects which do not provide conservation pools. (d) Lands required for a relatively short time for temporary structures or for use during the construction period only. (e) Easements may...
Page 45 - The medical service is one of the most important activities of the home as experience indicates that the patient load of the hospital will vary between 20 and 25 percent of the membership of the home. There has been a steady improvement in the medical services of the home. The affiliation of the home hospital with the Army Medical Center in the training of medical residents and interns has continued to raise the standard of care and treatment of patients. The provision of social and recreational...
Page 157 - Provided, That whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Army, the condition of any of the aforesaid works is such that its entire reconstruction is absolutely essential to its efficient and economical maintenance and operation as herein provided for, the reconstruction thereof may include such modifications in plan and location as may be иглеЕ-irv to provide adequate facilities for existing navigation...
Page 13 - State senator from the district hi which I live in Omaha, currently serving as speaker of the unicameral legislature in the city of Lincoln, our State capital. Mr. Tvrdik has received a letter from Governor Crosby designating him as an official representative of Nebraska to testify before this committee for the purpose at hand. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I should like to have this letter made a part of the record. Mr. DAVIS. We will be pleased to have this placed in the record. (The material...
Page 584 - Chairman, members of the committee, it is indeed a pleasure to be back with the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.