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acres additional amount appropriation approved Arkansas River Army engineers authorized Bay City benefits budget estimate Bureau Canal Zone cemetery Chairman MCKELLAR channel Chief of Engineers Colonel POTTER committee complete Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost County Creek Reservoir damage district drainage economic Federal Government feet FERINGA fiscal year 1951 flood control flood wall flood-control project floodway funds gentlemen House Ice Harbor Ice Harbor Dam increase irrigation Kansas City Kings River land levees located lock and dam miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation NEWCOMER Ohio Ohio River Oklahoma operation percent PICK Pick-Sloan plan Port present recommended record request Reservoir River Basin rivers and harbors Sacramento River Senator CHAPMAN Senator CORDON Senator ELLENDER Senator GURNEY Senator MCCLELLAN Senator STENNIS Senator THOMAS statement tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuttle Creek United Valley waterway Yazoo
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Page 94 - ... shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year, or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made within that year; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund. This section, however, shall not apply to appropriations known as permanent or indefinite appropriations.
Page 735 - That may be inserted in the record at this point. (The resolution referred to is as follows...
Page 454 - Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank the committee for this opportunity to appear before you.
Page 464 - August 1955. I think this dam can be classified in a special category, along with the other one that was requested, in the Virgin Islands. I am sincerely hopeful you will authorize an appropriation in accordance with the figures I have cited, which are the figures submitted to me by the Chief of Engineers. Mr. Chairman, I would like permission to insert in the record a copy of a letter I addressed to the Chief of Engineers on January 16 of this year, together with his response dated January 20, and...
Page 529 - ... the Tuttle Creek Reservoir. We rest our case with that showing that we cannot, the Army engineers have taken a definite stand and say we cannot build levees down there until we can put in levees that will be safe. Thank you, gentlemen. Chairman McKELLAR. Are there any questions? Thank you. FURTHER STATEMENT OF WILLARD J. BREIDENTHA.L, CHAIRMAN, GREATER KANSAS CITY FLOOD PROTECTION COMMITTEE, KANSAS CITY, KANS. TUTTLE CREEK DAM PROJECTS Mr. BREIDENTHAL. Mr. Chairman, you are very courteous and...
Page 114 - Canal Zone retirement and disability fund, is as follows: For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of Panama, who are...
Page 365 - I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Newark at a meeting held December 27, 1938.
Page 776 - Senator MCCLELLAN. Mr. Chairman, we have present also this morning, Mr. OO Kemp who is president of the southeast Arkansas levee district, and Mr. George M. Jones, of Dermott, Ark., chairman of the board of commissioners of the Dermott drainage district. Mr. Kemp, would you care to add anything to what Mr. Poe has stated ? STATEMENT OF 0. 0. KEMP, ROHWER, ARK., PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS LEVEE DISTRICT GENERAL STATEMENT Mr. KEMP. Mr. Chairman, I do not know that I can add very much. Mr....
Page 122 - PICK. $17,100,000 for the completion of 31 projects whose total estimated cost is $130,000,000. This will bring the record of projects placed in operation to the following total: 244 local protection projects, 79 reservoirs. Four million dollars for advance planning on 68 projects. ESTIMATE FOR FLOOD CONTROL, MISSISSIPPI RIVER The estimate provides $72,000,000 for the continuation of the project for flood control in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River, of which $57,000,000 is for construction,...
Page 857 - ... extent of their capabilities. If channels are allowed to deteriorate and navigable depths are decreased by silting, great inconvenience and loss will be experienced. It is for this reason that we...