Colonel DIXON. The next project is in the State of Pennsylvania, the Schuylkill River above Fairmount Dam. The total estimated cost of this project is $4,589,000, of which $3,794,000 has been appropriated to date. We are requesting this morning $795,000, which should complete the Federal responsibility in connection with this project. As the committee will recall, the project involves the removal of cumulative deposits in certain pool areas in the river. The benefit to cost ratio is 2.96 to 1.0. Senator ELLENDER. That is a project for dredging in three pools above dams. Senator DWORSHAK. This is a continuing project in that we have appropriated funds for this work for the past few years. Colonel DIXON. Yes, it is a continuing project, except this appropriation is the last one we will have to request. The State has lived up to its responsibilities, which involves the expenditure of some $35 million on works which have been extremely effective. General CHORPENING. I want to say here that the estimated cost on this project last year was $12,574,000. We have reduced it to $4,589,000. This is one where the elements worked in our favor rather than against us. Senator ELLENDER. I am here to give you the glad hand on that. PORT ARANSAS-CORPUS CHRISTI WATERWAY, TEX. Colonel DIXON. The next project is Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway in the State of Texas. Senator DwORSHAK. That is a new start? Colonel DIXON. This is considered a resumption, sir. We are talking about a specific feature of the Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway; namely, the 34-foot Tule Lake extension. The total project involves a Federal cost of $9,657,200 of which $5,976,000 has been appropriated to date. All work that funds were appropriated for has been completed. The request of $500,000 applies to the Tule Lake extension, which was authorized in 1945 and further modified in 1948. The total estimate of this specific feature is $1,429,000, on which local interests have expended $216,400 for partial deepening and widening. With the $500,000 we expect to complete about 2 miles of the Tule Lake extension. With $589,000 in fiscal year 1956 it will be possible to complete the 4.3-mile Tule Lake extension. Senator ELLENDER. Only dredging is involved? Colonel DIXON. Yes, sir. It is for a channel 200 feet wide by 34 feet deep. Senator DwORSHAK. How many years have you been working on this? Colonel DIXON. The Tule Lake extension has not been initiated by the Federal Government as yet. The waterway itself is an old project. Senator DwORSHAK. You have listed total appropriations to June 1953 of almost $6 million. Colonel DIXON. That involves the overall Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway project. The Tule Lake extension is just a specific feature of the overall project. It is a channel extension to an area called Tule Lake, along which there are a number of large industries that are developing in addition to those there now. The benefit-cost ratio is 1.4 to 1. Senator ELLENDER. On that specific project? Colonel DIXON. On this specific feature of the project. Colonel DIXON. Specifically, this is the Craney Island disposal area. The benefit-to-cost ratio is 1.55 to 1. Senator DwORSHAK. Has there been an increase in the cost of this? General CHORPENING. Very slight; $293,900 on the entire Norfolk Harbor improvement. Senator ELLENDER. That is the project wherein we are going to recover quite an acreage? Colonel DIXON. That is correct. Senator ELLENDER. Is it panning out as you expected? General CHORPENING. We just received funds in the current fiscal year for the first time, $700,000. We are getting underway. As far as we can see, it is going to work out as we presented it to the committee last year. Senator ELLENDER. Over a period of how many years will it be that you are going to reclaim this 2,500 acres? Colonel DIXON. The disposal area has an estimated life of 25 years. It should take us, at the rate we are dredging and having to get rid of our disposal material, 25 years to fill it completely. Senator DwORSHAK. Who will own it? Colonel DIXON. The Federal Government. Senator ELLENDER. I presume, if this thing is complete in 25 years and the land values hold on to what they are now, or if we want to dispose of that, we can get our money back plus? General CHORPENING. Yes, sir. It ought to be extremely valuable land. It will be at least 8 feet above mean high water. Senator ELLENDER. Another attractive feature was that it will be cheaper for the Government to carry these spoils there than to take them to the ocean. General CHORPENING. That is the basis for the justification. In fiscal 1954 we will initiate construction of the leveed area including sluiceways, and we are now acquiring certain lands needed for the construction. PURPOSE OF PROJECT Senator ELLENDER. The purpose of this project is simply to use it as a dumping ground? Colonel DIXON. That is right, sir. General CHORPENING. We have exhausted all other available areas for dumping. If we did not do this, we would have to carry our dredged material out to sea. Senator ELLENDER. A good deal of it might come back to you? General CHORPENING. Yes, sir. Senator DwORSHAK. The committee will recess until 10 a. m. tomorrow. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, Wednesday, February 3, 1954, the committee recessed, to reconvene at 10 a. m., Thursday, February 4, 1954.) CIVIL FUNCTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1954 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, in room F-39, the United States Capitol, Hon. Milton R. Young, presiding. Present: Senators Young, Ellender, and Holland. CIVIL FUNCTIONS FLOOD-CONTROL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS STATEMENTS OF BRIG. GEN. C. H. CHORPENING, USA., ASSISTANT CHIEF OF ENGINEERS FOR CIVIL WORKS AND COL. ARTHUR D. STARBIRD, USA, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF CIVIL WORKS FOR FLOOD CONTROL-(Resumed) AMOUNT REQUESTED Senator YOUNG. The committee will please come to order. General Chorpening, do you want to proceed where we left off yesterday? General CHORPENING. Yes. Yesterday we completed the testimony on the navigation and construction projects, and today we start on the flood-control-construction projects. In the budget this year there is a total of 49 flood-control projects for which funds are being specifically requested. Of the 49, 7 are included as new starts and 3 are resumptions. Resumptions are projects, started in some earlier year, on which no work was done for some time, and for which we are now asking funds to resume work. The total amount being requested for flood-control construction is $59,892,000. That is not quite 20 percent of the total construction funds being requested in the budget. Colonel Starbird will present the detailed testimony. Colonel Starbird was here last year during some of the hearings. He is now my assistant for flood-control matters. Senator ELLENDER. May I ask a question, please? Senator YOUNG. Yes, sir. Senator ELLENDER. How does that amount compare with last year? 42592-54-15 223 1954 APPROPRIATION General CHORPENING. The amount of the appropriation in fiscal year 1954 for flood control was $42,834,000. Senator ELLENDER. The reason why I asked the question is because of what was brought out the other day for flood control of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and all work connected with it which was reduced to $45,200,000. That is contrasted with $70 million requested by the engineers. Now, I wonder if you could tell us why it is that was done? I wonder if you could tell where these projects are, where they are located, where the amount is increased from $42 million to $60 million? I just cannot understand the reason. General CHORPENING. Senator Senator ELLENDER. Do you get what I am trying to drive at? Senator ELLENDER. The reduction that I point out is over $6 million from the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries; there is a decrease. Here there is an increase. General CHORPENING. An increase of $18 million over last year. REASON FOR INCREASE Senator ELLENDER. There was an increase of $18 million over last year, and I would like to get an explanation of that. General CHORPENING. The bulk of that is due to the inclusion of new starts in this budget. That would be the major percentage of that difference between last year and this year-the new starts that are being requested and the resumptions. Senator ELLENDER. Now, is it your purpose to take each one individually? General CHORPENING. Yes. Senator YOUNG. Senator, let me ask this: General, do you have the appropriations for a year ago plus the carryover, and the appropriation this year plus any other carryover? I think that would give us a little better understanding of it. General CHORPENING. The figure of $42,834,000 which I have given you, sir, is the amount actually appropriated for 1954. Although some part of this will be carried over and used in fiscal year 1955, such amount is not a part of the 60 million which we are requesting for 1955. Senator YOUNG. Now, do you have the carryover of funds that you had at the beginning of fiscal year 1954? General CHORPENING. We could give that to you, if you desire it. I do not have that figure immediately available. Senator YOUNG. You had more carryover; did you not, at the beginning of fiscal year 1953? CARRYOVER FUNDS General CHORPENING. For the overall civil works program, Senator, on June 30, 1952, we had approximately $400 million carryover funds, that is, unexpended funds. On June 30, 1953, we had_approximately $285 million unexpended funds. We anticipate on June |