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... additional damages of about $ 29,400,000 . Twenty - four lives were lost in this area . The lower Mississippi rose in flood through March and April of 1945 , owing to the combination of high - volume flow on the Ohio , excessive run ...
... additional damages of about $ 29,400,000 . Twenty - four lives were lost in this area . The lower Mississippi rose in flood through March and April of 1945 , owing to the combination of high - volume flow on the Ohio , excessive run ...
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... additional projects . Our appropri- ation bill for the fiscal year 1947 , as passed by the Senate on March 19 , provides the amount of $ 199,613,500 for continuation of these projects and the initiation of construction of 36 additional ...
... additional projects . Our appropri- ation bill for the fiscal year 1947 , as passed by the Senate on March 19 , provides the amount of $ 199,613,500 for continuation of these projects and the initiation of construction of 36 additional ...
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... additional study or investigation as the Chief of Engineers finds necessary to take into account important changes in economic factors as they occur , and additional stream flow records , or other factual data . We recog- nize this ...
... additional study or investigation as the Chief of Engineers finds necessary to take into account important changes in economic factors as they occur , and additional stream flow records , or other factual data . We recog- nize this ...
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... additional authorizations for the projects that have been approved in the Ohio valley ? General WHEELER . That is correct , sir . The CHAIRMAN . We have thus the importance of making additional authorizations for something like three ...
... additional authorizations for the projects that have been approved in the Ohio valley ? General WHEELER . That is correct , sir . The CHAIRMAN . We have thus the importance of making additional authorizations for something like three ...
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... additional data to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors . The Board has given careful consideration to the views expressed by local interests in communications received . VIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR ...
... additional data to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors . The Board has given careful consideration to the views expressed by local interests in communications received . VIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR ...
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acre-feet acres additional ALLEN approved April Army engineers authorized Barren County Bayou Bayou Macon benefits canal CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers Clifton Forge Clinton River Colonel HERB Colonel SCHEIDENHELM Colonel WEST completed Congress construction Covington CRAWFORD cubic feet Desha County district engineer division engineer Eagle Creek estimated cost farm feet per second Flood Control Act Flood Control Committee flood damage flood protection flood-control project floodway flow Fredericksburg Gathright Dam glad hearings HICKMAN highway improvement industrial interests Jackson River James River Lake land levee ment Mississippi River MOOMAW Mount Clemens Oakland County Ohio River percent pollution Port Oliver Potomac River present proposed railroad recommended record Red River Red Run represent reservoir rights-of-way River Basin Rivers and Harbors Rossville Salem Church Savage River Secretary square miles statement stream submitted tion town tributaries United Valley Vicksburg Virginia Washington watershed WHEELER WHITTINGTON
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Page 662 - States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 696 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission...
Page 540 - State in which such national forest is situated, to be expended as the state legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which such national forest is situated...
Page 26 - 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 173 - ... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected.
Page 173 - June 22, 1936, and to supplement the preliminary examinations and surveys which the Secretary of War has heretofore been authorized and directed to make of waterways with a view to the control of their floods, the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made for run-off and water-flow retardation and soilerosion prevention on the watersheds of said waterways, the costs thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore...
Page 47 - That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the...
Page 50 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 167 - ... to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in drainage areas of the United States and its territorial possessions...
Page 690 - States (as defined in paragraph (a) of this section) , and to the Secretary of War, be subject to the same provisions regarding investigations, plans, proposals, and reports as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section for the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War.