Markham Ferry Project, Grand River, Okla: Hearing Before the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on S. 3432, a Bill to Provide for the Construction of the Markham's Ferry Project on the Grand River in Oklahoma by the State of Oklahoma, May 25, 1950 |
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Page 3 - 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...
Page 3 - ... part with Federal funds provided on the basis of such purposes, and the operation of any such project shall be in accordance with such regulations : Provided, That this section shall not apply to the Tennessee Valley Authority, except that in case of danger from floods on the Lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Tennessee Valley Authority is directed to regulate the release of water from the Tennessee River into the Ohio River in accordance with such instructions as may be issued by the War...
Page 2 - In addition to previous authorizations there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $200,000,000 for the partial accomplishment of the works to be undertaken under said expanded plans by the Corps of Engineers.
Page 2 - The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes, approved by the Act of June 28, 1938, for the Arkansas River Basin, is hereby modified to include the reservoirs in the Grand...
Page 3 - Board, and with such modification as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable.
Page 3 - ... disagreement as to the measures required for compliance, a report of the circumstances, together with the recommendations of the District and Division Engineers, will be submitted to the Chief of Engineers for consideration. (b) Regulations for the use of storage allocated for flood control or navigation at reservoirs constructed wholly or In part with Federal funds provided on the basis of such purposes, are contained In § 208.16 et seq.
Page 14 - Pensacola project, as proposed by the authority in its declaration, would affect the navigable stages of the Arkansas River, a navigable water of the United States, to which...
Page 33 - This system of the authority is now interconnected with systems of the Public Service Co. of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co., and the Arkansas and Louisiana electric utilities.
Page 2 - Neodesha, and Elk City Rivers in Kansas. The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes as approved by the act of June 28, 1938, for the Arkansas River was modified to include these reservoirs as an integral part of the system. The Fall River and Toronto Rivers definite project reports have been completed, and the Elk City and the Neodesha Reservoirs studies are well advanced.
Page 3 - For initiation and accomplishment of this plan the act authorizes the sum of $55,000.000 to be appropriated. The Chief of Engineers, in his report of September 20, 1945, recommended improvement of the Arkansas River and tributaries to provide a navigable depth of 9 feet from the Mississippi River to Catoosa, Okla., by canalization of the Arkansas and Verdigris Rivers and the construction of 12 reservoirs, one of which was the Markham Ferry reservoir, for navigation, flood control, power development...