more information about Quinby because that is now in line with your program that even though it does not make a direct contribution to national defense, it is so essential to domestic economy-which may not be as bright as some people think-that we would be justified in spending a little money to help out those that may be really up against it hard before another year.

Senator ELLENDER. To revert to this particular project, the whole amount was over the ceiling and not within ceiling?

Colonel STARBIRD. All was over ceiling.

General CHORPENING. We were not allowed to include any funds within ceiling. It had to be over.

Senator ELLENDER. How much did you recommend over ceiling? Colonel STARBIRD. $2,500,000.

Senator ELLENDER. And they allowed $2,300,000.

Senator ROBERTSON. Will you ask your present district engineer at Norfolk if he could get us some up-to-date information on the need of $25,000 for that turning basin at Quinby so that before these hearing are finished we may put that in our record?

General CHORPENING. Yes, sir.

(The information referred to appears on page 451.)

Senator ROBERTSON. Someone testified last year it was still a very good project but expressed surprise we got as much done as we did for the money. They estimated that, in view of the fact we knew of a dredging outfit that would do the work so much cheaper than the Engineers thought it could be done, that $25,000 would build the turning basin. We agreed to that and were hoping to go ahead. General CHORPENING. I will get the information.

Colonel STARBIRD. The next project is the Wichita and Valley Center, Kans., project. It is a floodway project to take the waters of the Arkansas, the Little Arkansas, and various other streams around the city of Wichita. This project has an estimated cost of $14,139,000. There has been appropriated to date $5,753,000, or 41 percent of the total cost. This amount includes an appropriation in fiscal year 1954 of $1.1 million.

This project has a benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.18 to 1. The amount recommended for appropriation in fiscal year 1955 is $2,250,000.

The sum carried over from fiscal year 1953 into fiscal year 1954 totaled slightly over $1.6 million. The amount available after December 31 was $1,230,000. We expect to reduce the overall to the neighborhood of $300,000 by the end of this fiscal year.

I might mention this is a project that has quite a heavy local contribution. The normal four assurances are provided and the cost

to local interests will be over $612 million. Also, I might mention that the main communication facilities of the city lie in the flood plain. Senator CORDON. That $62 million is in addition to the estimated Federal cost?

Colonel STARBIRD. That is in addition, sir, and is for lands, rightsof-way, and public relocations.

Senator ELLENDER. $2,250,000 was your within ceiling recommendation?

Colonel STARBIRD. No, sir. We recommended $2,541,700; the amount granted was $2,250,000.

Senator ELLENDER. So they cut out about $292,000. Finally we found one that was a little below your recommendation. That is within ceiling now?

Colonel STARBIRD. That is within ceiling.

BARBOURVILLE, KY.

The next project is a project for local protection of a small city on the Kentucky River, well up the Kentucky River, at about mile 635. It is a project upon which we have had no construction money to date. We have had planning money only.

The estimated cost of the project is $2,190,000. The project has had appropriated for planning $55,000 to date. The amount recommended for fiscal year 1955 is $350,000 to initiate construction on the first unit of the program. The project has a benefit-to-cost ratio of

1.29 to 1.

I might mention, also, this community has a record of very, very frequent flooding. In fact, there have been 21 floodings during the last 35 years. Local interests will provide toward this project the normal four assurances of cooperation that I described yesterday.

Senator CORDON. Has there been any reluctance on the part of local interests to take care of that contribution?

Colonel STARBIRD. No; definitely not, sir. The city organized and has pushed itself so as to get a bond issue ready.

Senator ELLENDER. This amount was above ceiling, I suppose.
Colonel STARBIRD. This was over ceiling.

Senator ELLENDER. How much did you recommend over ceiling?
Colonel STARBIRD. We recommended the amount that was granted,

a minimum amount to initiate construction.

The cost to local interests for the furnishing of these assurances in this case is quite high, $282,000 exclusive of the maintenance and operation they must take over after completion.

Colonel STARBIRD. The next project is one which would be brought to completion with the funds recommended in fiscal year 1955. It is the Covington local protection project in Kentucky on the Ohio River, directly across from Cincinnati, and will protect a community of around 65,000 persons. This project has an estimated cost of $7,753,300. That is a reduction of almost $700,000 from last year.

The amount appropriated to date is $6,720,200, or 87 percent of the total required. All units of the project are now underway. The appropriation to date includes $1,100,000 in fiscal year 1954. The project has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.5 to 1.

The amount recommended for fiscal year 1955 is $900,000 and, as I mentioned, that is the amount to complete, except for the possibility there may be some contingent matter arise in the future that might add $133,100.

Senator CORDON. You have a figure here, balance to complete, of $133,100. That would indicate that you had in mind some specific work that would be needed after 1955?

Colonel STARBIRD. That is a matter still under negotiation, to determine whether or not that payment need be made. It is actually for work or a claim for payment for work already accomplished. Senator ELLENDER. Will you tell us how the $700,000 saving came about?

Colonel STARBIRD. Yes, sir. It came about in that we have had very good success on our bids here for the construction of pumping plants.

We also are reaching the end of the project, and naturally what little contingency remains we can now absorb.

Senator ELLENDER. It can be said that you had overestimated the $700,000, and because of better contracts you were able to save that? Colonel STARBIRD. Yes, sir.

it?

Senator ELLENDER. But the project was completed as you planned

Colonel STARBIRD. The next project, the Maysville project, is another local protection project on the Ohio River about 100 miles above the city of Cincinnati. It is a project for the protection of a heavily industrialized area and some residential areas in the city of Maysville, which has a population of around 8,000 persons. This project has an estimated cost of $6,656,000. We have appropriated to date $4,319,800

for 65 percent of thet total cost. This includes $1 million appropriated for fiscal year 1954. The project has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.3 to 1. Our financial situation on this project is as follows: We carried over into fiscal year 1954 over $900,000 which together with the appropriation provided $1,900,000 for fiscal year 1954. We have now reduced the available funds to slightly over $1,200,000 through the end of the calendar year 1953.

We expect to reduce the available funds to approximately $600,000 by the end of the fiscal year. The amount recommended for fiscal your 1955 for this project is $1 million.

Senator ELLENDER. Is that your within-ceiling figure?

Colonel STARBIRD. The funds for this project were recommended within ceiling.

General CHORPENING. But the within-ceiling amount recommended was actually $1,173,000.

Senator ELLENDER. Was there a cut made by the Budget?

General CHORPENING. That is correct.

Senator ELLENDER. Of how much?

General CHORPENING. Of $173,000, sir.

Colonel STARBIRD. The next project is a small local protection project for the city of Pineville on the Kentucky River at mile 655. This is actually protective works for two small communities, the city of Pineville and its young suburb, Wallsend.

This project is a going project. The total estimated cost of the project is $1,692,000. There have been appropriated to date $674,000, or 40 percent of the total cost. That includes an appropriation in fiscal year 1954 of $400,000. The project has a high benefit-cost ratio of 1.81 to 1.

The project had carried over into fiscal year 1954 a sum of $211,000. With the appropriation and carryover, we have left as of the beginning of this calendar year $456,000. We will reduce that to $155,000 by the end of this fiscal year.

Senator ELLENDER. Is that $260,000 within your recommendation? Colonel STARBIRD. That was a within-ceiling amount. The amount we recommended was $263,100.

Senator ELLENDER. So they cut you $3,100.

Colonel STARBIRD. The next project is a local protection project, the Cumberland-Ridgeley project, which gives protection to the main industrial and a large part of the lower residential areas of the city of Cumberland and its adjoining city, Ridgeley. This also is a going project. The estimated cost of the project is $15,391,000, of which 38 percent, $5,839,200, has been appropriated to date; $950,000 was appropriated in fiscal year 1954.

The project has a benefit-cost ratio of 1.33 to 1. The amount recommended for fiscal year 1955 is $600,000. We carried over into 1954, $919,000. The amount available as of the first of the calendar year was $844,000. We will reduce the unexpended balance to $152,500 by the end of the fiscal year.

Senator ELLENDER. Was the amount you recommended within ceiling?

Colonel STARBIRD. Our recommendation was within ceiling, sir. But we recommended $700,000.

Senator CORDON. Tell us a little bit more about the status of construction on this project. I know it is a $15 million project and you have asked for only $600,000 for the fiscal year. The amount seems out of order in connection with a project of that magnitude.

Colonel STARBIRD. The work we have done so far has largely been the construction of certain pressure conduits plus the initiation of work on the upper end of Wills Creek that joins the river at the city of Cumberland. The money that is recommended will carry the program along on a minimum economic schedule. The work that will be undertaken really consists of three parts. One part will be the relocation of an industrial dam. That relocation, incidentally, has already been initiated; but the job is to move that dam out of Wills Creek where it forms a constriction and to move it over into the main river, the north branch, where it will not constrict as much, and this represents one part of the project. Until we get that moved, we really should not go forward with much more work on Wills Creek.

At the bottom end of the project we have another part where we are initiating work on the main river to provide channel clearance. and the construction of low levees. On the upper end of the project is the third part, which is on the main river where we are continuing work on some walls and levees that will protect a portion of West Cumberland.

Senator ELLENDER. Is any of that water used for local purposes? Colonel STARBIRD. This is a channel and levee improvement project. Senator ELLENDER. Purely flood control?

Colonel STARBIRD. It is a flood-control project, sir.