The American River Basin Project. Hearings Before a Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation ... on H.R. 4152 and 4157, March 22-25, 19481948 - 252 pages |
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acre-feet acre-foot acres agencies Alameda amendments American River Basin American River development appropriation Army engineers authorized BARRETT build Bureau of Reclamation Calif California canal capacity Central Valley project Chairman Chief of Engineers Clair Engle committee Congress Congressman conservation construction Contra Costa County Corps of Engineers cost Costa CRAWFORD CREIM D'EWART Dorado County El Dorado County feasibility Federal Flood Control Act Folsom Dam Folsom Reservoir Gas & Electric going Government Governor hydroelectric industrial Interior irrigation JENKINSON JOHNSON kilowatts land legislation LEMKE Miller Miller-Engle bill MURDOCK operation Pacific Gas percent Placerville POULSON power plant present proposed question reclamation law ROCKWELL Sacramento San Francisco San Joaquin San Jose Santa Clara County Santa Clara Valley SEHLMEYER Senator Shasta Dam Sly Park statement storage tion transmission lines United utility water and power water resources water supply WELCH WHEELER
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Page 38 - 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 175 - I want to thank the chairman and members of the committee for the consideration that has been given the witnesses appearing in behalf of this great project.
Page 42 - Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable at an estimated cost of...
Page 11 - Numbered 26 of the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works of the State of California, and shall consult the local interests to be affected by the construction and operation of said works, through public hearings or in such other...
Page 69 - Investigations which form the basis of any such plans, proposals, or reports shall be conducted in such a manner as to give to the affected State or States, during the course of the investigations, information developed by the investigations and also opportunity for consultation regarding plans and proposals, and, to the extent deemed practicable by the Chief of Engineers, opportunity to cooperate in the investigations. If such investigations in whole or part are concerned with the use or control...
Page 69 - Congress to recognize the interests and rights of the States in determining the development of the watersheds within their borders and likewise their interests and rights in water utilization and control...
Page 72 - Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works in connection therewith as he may deem necessary for irrigation purposes. Such irrigation works may be undertaken only after a report and findings thereon have been made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in said Federal reclamation laws and after subsequent specific authorization of the Congress by an authorization Act; and, within the limits of the water users...
Page 208 - That in said sales or leases preference shall be given to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organizations financed in whole or in part by loans made pursuant to the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 and any amendments thereof.
Page 70 - The use for navigation, in connection with the operation and maintenance of such works herein authorized for construction, of waters arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian...
Page 219 - The Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Reclamation, is hereby further authorized and directed to conduct the necessary investigations, surveys, and studies for the purpose of developing plans for disposing of the water and electric power which would be made available by the project...