Merrimack River Valley and Connecticut River Valley Interstate Flood Control Compacts: Hearings... on H.J. Res. 482, H. J. Res. 435, Etc... |
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Page 60 - 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...
Page 5 - The port authority shall have such additional powers and duties as may hereafter be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by the action of the legislature of either State concurred in by the legislature of the other.
Page 18 - Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof...
Page 147 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby given to...
Page 42 - Local Interests are required to provide without cost to the United States all rights-of-way for levee foundations and levees on the main stem of the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the Head of Passes, except for maintenance setbacks.
Page 72 - United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 22 - States, and their tributaries, whereon power development appears feasible and practicable, with a view to the formulation of general plans for the most effective improvement of such streams for the purposes of navigation and the prosecution of such improvement in combination with the most efficient development of the potential water power, the control of floods, and the needs of irrigation...
Page 24 - It is hereby recognized that destructive floods upon the rivers of the United States, upsetting orderly processes and causing loss of life and property, including the erosion of lands, and impairing and obstructing navigation, highways, railroads, and other channels of commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare...
Page 4 - A majority of the members from each State shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, but no action of the Commission shall be binding unless at least two of the members from each State shall vote in favor thereof.
Page 25 - Federal investigations of watersheds and measures for runoff and waterflow retardation and soil erosion prevention on watersheds shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the Department of Agriculture under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress...
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| Title | Merrimack River Valley and Connecticut River Valley Interstate Flood Control Compacts: Hearings... on H.J. Res. 482, H. J. Res. 435, Etc... |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control |
| Published | 1937 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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