Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress |
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... representing the Maine Port Authority , and the other a representative of the Propeller Club of Portland . The CHAIRMAN . We will hear Colonel Feringa and then hear you and your witnesses . Will you please proceed , Colonel ? Mr. RANKIN ...
... representing the Maine Port Authority , and the other a representative of the Propeller Club of Portland . The CHAIRMAN . We will hear Colonel Feringa and then hear you and your witnesses . Will you please proceed , Colonel ? Mr. RANKIN ...
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... represents our local Propeller Club , which is a very influential and useful organization . The CHAIRMAN . We will be glad to hear you , Mr. Kimball . STATEMENT OF HAROLD E. KIMBALL , SECRETARY OF THE MAINE PORT AUTHORITY AND OF THE ...
... represents our local Propeller Club , which is a very influential and useful organization . The CHAIRMAN . We will be glad to hear you , Mr. Kimball . STATEMENT OF HAROLD E. KIMBALL , SECRETARY OF THE MAINE PORT AUTHORITY AND OF THE ...
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... represents a majority of the ocean shipping interests of the United States , would like to express to you their views in connection with some of these projects . 86902-46- -3 The members of the institute own and operate many large ...
... represents a majority of the ocean shipping interests of the United States , would like to express to you their views in connection with some of these projects . 86902-46- -3 The members of the institute own and operate many large ...
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... represented here . The CHAIRMAN . What is the present depth ? Colonel FERINGA . It is 30 feet , and we do not recommend any deep- ening , in the present report . In brief , what we propose is a slight shifting of the presently ...
... represented here . The CHAIRMAN . What is the present depth ? Colonel FERINGA . It is 30 feet , and we do not recommend any deep- ening , in the present report . In brief , what we propose is a slight shifting of the presently ...
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... represent owns considerable land adjacent to Johnson's Creek in Bridgeport Harbor . The need for a 30 - foot channel in Bridgeport Harbor has been well established , and has been approved as of March 1945. The modification of this ...
... represent owns considerable land adjacent to Johnson's Creek in Bridgeport Harbor . The need for a 30 - foot channel in Bridgeport Harbor has been well established , and has been approved as of March 1945. The modification of this ...
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12 feet 29 feet 30 feet additional ANGELL annual carrying charges Army engineers authorized barge Baton Rouge Big Sioux River Board of Engineers bridge Calcasieu River canal cargo CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers Colonel FERINGA Columbia River commerce Congress construction Coos Bay craft Creek damages deepening depth district engineer DONDERO dredging Engineers for Rivers estimated existing project facilities favor Federal feet 6 inches feet deep feet wide fishing Gulf Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Harbor Act Harbors Committee industrial interests Intracoastal Waterway Johns River Lake Charles land LARCADE load located lock Louisiana lumber maintenance Mermentau River miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation operation Oreg PETERSON of Georgia petroleum products PITTENGER port of Coos Portland present proposed PYBURN railroads RANKIN Rivers and Harbors savings Schuylkill River Sioux City South statement tankers terminal tion tonnage tons traffic transportation tributary turning basin vessels WHEELER width
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Page 278 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 81 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until 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 296 - 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 306 - ... arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, Irrigation, mining or industrial purposes.
Page 306 - 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.
Page 278 - As used in this section the term ' commerce ' shall include the use of waterways by seasonal passenger craft, yachts, house boats, fishing boats, motor boats, and other similar water craft, whether or not operated for hire.'* Approved, February 10, 1932.
Page 280 - This, however, is subject to the conditions that local interests furnish 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...
Page 39 - But there will be no meeting of the committee to-morrow. (Accordingly, at 12.30 orlock pm, a recess was taken until 2 o'clock pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS The committee resumed at 2 o'clock pm, at the expiration of the recess.
Page 246 - Local cooperation. This provides that local interests agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-ofway, and spoil disposal areas...
Page 226 - States of $378,000, subject to the provision that local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War...