15. EMERGENCY FLOOD CONTROL WORK PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 OF THE FLOOD CONTROL ACT APPROVED AUGUST 18, 1941 The Flood Control Act approved August 18, 1941, authorized the allotment from flood-control appropriations of not to exceed $1,000,000 for any one fiscal year to be expended in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work threatened or destroyed by flood. The amount of $20,000 was allotted to the Rock Island district on June 2, 1945, for emergency flood control work pursuant to section 5 of the act approved August 18, 1941. There were no costs or expenditures under this authorization during the fiscal year 1945. The allotment will be applied to emergency flood-control work during the fiscal year 1946. Cost and financial summary Cost of new work to June 30, 1945 Cost of maintenance to June 30, 1945 Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945 Unexpended balance June 30, 1945 Total amount appropriated to June 30, 1945 20,000 20,000 Amount allotted from War Department Civil Appropriation Act approved Apr. 28, 1942 Balance unexpended June 30, 1945 20,000 20,000 16. EMERGENCY FLOOD-CONTROL WORK UNDER AUTHORITY OF PUBLIC LAWS NOS. 138 AND 318, SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, AND 75, SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS Because of the heavy demands for emergency repair work to flood-control structures damaged or destroyed by the disastrous floods which occurred in the springs of 1943, 1944, and 1945, Congress in the act approved July 12, 1943, Public, No. 138, Seventy-eighth Congress, in the act approved May 29, 1944, Public, No. 318, Seventy-eighth Congress, and in the act approved June 5. 1945, Public, No. 75, Seventy-ninth Congress, authorized the amounts of $10,000,000, $12,000,000, and $12,000,000, respectively, to be appropriated as emergency funds to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which had been threatened or destroyed by the recent floods. Pursuant to the act of July 12, 1943, one repair job was accomplished at a cost of $1,285.80 during fiscal year 1944. The expenditures were $1,285.80. Pursuant to the acts of May 29, 1944, and June 5, 1945, the amounts of $430,000 and $81,000 were allotted to the Rock Island district for emergency levee repair work and for flood fighting and rescue work necessitated by the spring floods of 1944 and 1945, respectively. During fiscal year 1945 emergency repairs were completed to the levees of 14 drainage districts. The work involved the placement of 338,000 cubic yards of fill. In addition emergency repairs were underway at 3 other locations on June 30, 1945. The total costs during the fiscal year were $316,225.93. The expenditures were $297,031.88. The unexpended balance on June 30, 1945, $213,968.12, will be applied to accounts payable June 30, 1945, $18,541.35, and to emergency flood-control work during the fiscal year 1946. 17. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, SURVEYS, AND The costs for work during the fiscal year amounted to $91,942.68. The expenditures were $90,964.37. The balance unexpended June 30, 1945, $104,623.09, will be applied as needed during the fiscal year 1946 to the payment of expenses incurred under this heading. The additional sum of $100,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year 1947. Cost and financial summary Cost of new work to June 30, 1945_. Cost of maintenance to June 30, 1945 Total cost of permanent work to June 30, 1945 Undistributed costs June 30, 1945 Net total cost to June 30, 1945 Minus accounts payable June 30, 1945 Net total expenditures Unexpended balance June 30, 1945 Total amount appropriated to June 30, 1945 $748, 127. 68 748, 127. 68 -430.00 747, 697.68 5, 135. 77 742, 561.91 104, 623. 09 847, 185.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1947 for maintenance 1 7, 746.47 96, 876.62 100,000.00 1 Exclusive of available funds. 18. OTHER FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECTS FOR WHICH NO ESTIMATES ARE SUBMITTED 1 Work under the project has been deferred pending further study. * Work under the project has been deferred pending fulfillment of the required local cooperation. * Completed. Status of all investigations for flood control called for by flood control acts and committee resolutions |