 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1953 - 874 pages
...of the United States . . . constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government . . . ; that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters... | |
 | United States - Agricultural laws and legislation - 1936 - 684 pages
...commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries...the Federal Government in cooperation with States, of the general welfare ; that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - Connecticut River - 1937 - 184 pages
...apportionment of costs, have been negotiated between the States of Massachusetts and New Hainpshire, and the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts. Vermont,...control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proi>er activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors - Natural resources - 1937 - 894 pages
...Congress undertook flood control as an end in itself — declaring that "it is the setYSfe ol gress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries...their political subdivisions and localities thereof." The inclusiveness of a phrase like "navigable waters or their tributaries" makes this policy Nation-wide,... | |
 | Forest management - 1937 - 542 pages
...history of the country, a coordinated land and water program for flood control. It declares, first, that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper Federal activity in cooperation with the States and their political subdivisions, and secondly that... | |
 | United States. National Resources Committee - Government publications - 1938 - 206 pages
...bill of 1936 clearly states that "it is the sense of ConDivision of Costs and Responsibility gress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries...activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with the States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof", and provides that Federal expenditures... | |
 | Tennessee Valley Authority - Chattanooga (Tenn.) - 1939 - 210 pages
...the construction of public works for flood control, the Congress set out as a declaration of policy that: Flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries...their political subdivisions, and localities thereof. This increased interest of the Federal Government in local protection problems and obligations of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee - 1941 - 130 pages
...Congress, in the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, set forth a new policy in which it recognized that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper activity of the Federal Government, and it directed that Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - Flood control - 1944 - 846 pages
...commerce between the States, constitute a menace to national welfare; that it is the sense of Congress that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries Is a proper activity of tlie Federal Government in cooperation with States, their political subdivisions, and localities thereof;... | |
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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... 
