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11. EMERGENCY BANK PROTECTION WORKS UNDER AUTHORITY OF SECTION 14 OF PUBLIC LAW 526, SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

Section 14 of Public Law No. 526, approved July 24, 1946. read, in part, as follows:

66% * * the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to allot from any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made for flood control, not to exceed $1,000,000 per year, for the construction of emergency bank protection works to prevent flood damage to highway bridge approaches, and public works, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable: Provided, That not more than $50,000 shall be allotted for this purpose at any single location from the appropriations for any one fiscal

year

Pursuant thereto allotments were made for emergency bank protection work within the Fort Peck District as shown in the following tabulation:

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Operation and results during fiscal year.-The total cost of emergency bank protection work during the year was $30, 608.43; expenditures were $19,890.70.

Condition at end of fiscal year.-Planning was initiated on the rural flood-protection project on the Sun River. All other emergency bank-protection works tabulated above are complete.

Proposed operations.-Work on presently scheduled bank-protection works will be completed.

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Other new work data: Unobligated balance, June 30, 1950 ...

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$20,271.68

12. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS, SURVEYS, AND
CONTINGENCIES FOR FLOOD CONTROL

The cost of work during the year was $122,178.42 and the expenditures were $118,553.39.

The balance unexpended on June 30, 1950, amounting to $26,467.16, plus an allotment of $65,000, a total of $91,467.16, will be applied to accounts payable and as needed during the fiscal year 1951 for payment of expenses incurred under this heading. The additional sum of $176,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1952.

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2 Assurances of local cooperation requested Aug. 29, 1946. Assurances have not been received. 3 The levee system at the town of Marmarth, N. Dak., was improved by the Works Progress Administration. An investigation of the project to improve existing levees to protect the principal portion of the town of Marmarth against floods showed that the authorized project was inadequate, consequently an interim report to the review report on the Little Missouri River has been prepared which recommends authorization of a more comprehensive flood control project at Marmarth, N. Dak. Local interests have furnished tentative assurances that they will furnish necessary local cooperation for this recommended project.

Exclusive of $5, 990 contributed by the State of North Dakota.

Authorized by 1950 Flood Control Act. No planning or construction funds have been allocated.

Status of all investigations for flood control called for by flood control acts and committee resolutions

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Bear Butte Creek, S. Dak., for
flood control (tributary of
Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and
Wyo.).

Beaver Creek, Mont., and N.
Dek.,_tributary of Little Mis-
souri River.

Bowman irrigation project, N.
Dak., on Grand River.

Cannonball River, flood protec-
tion at and in the vicinity of
Mott, N. Dak.

Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and
Wyo., for flood-control im-
provements of Whitewood,
Spearfish, Redwater, and Hay
Creeks.

Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and
Wyo., for flood control on
Bear Butte Creek.
Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and
Wyo., for flood control on
Rapid Creek.

Gallatin, Jefferson and Madison
Rivers, Montana (Three Forks
Basin).

Glasgow, Mont., on Milk River,

with a view to flood control at.

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Status of all investigations for flood control called for by flood control acts and committee resolutions

Locality

Authorization act

Date transmitted to Congress

Document
No.

Recommendation

Grand River, Bowman irrigation project, N. Dak.

Grand River, S. Dak...

Hay Creek, S. Dak. and Wyo., for flood-control improvements (tributary of Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and Wyo.). Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin Rivers, (Three Forks Basin).

Little Missouri River and tributaries, including Beaver Creek, Mont. and N. Dak. (flood control and irrigation).

Little Missouri River and tributaries, at Marmarth, N. Dak., (interim report).

Madison, Gallatin and Jefferson Rivers, Mont. (Three Forks Basin).

Milk River with a view to flood control at Glasgow, Mont.

Missouri River, with a view to flood protection along the Sun River, Mont.

Moreau River, S. Dak...

Mott, N. Dak., and vicinity on Cannonball River, N. Ďak.

Rapid Creek, S. Dak., improvement for flood control (tributary of the Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and Wyo.). Redwater Creek, S. Dak. and Wyo. (tributary of Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and Wyo.). Spearfish Creek, S. Dak. (tributary of Cheyenne River, S. Dak. and Wyo.).

Sun River, Mont. (tributary of Missouri River).

Three Forks Basin (Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin Rivers, Mont.).

Whitewood Creek, S. Dak. (tributary of Cheyenne River, 8. Dak, and Wyo.).

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FLOOD CONTROL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DENVER, COLO., DISTRICT

The Denver district comprises the portion of northern Colorado, southern Wyoming and southwestern Nebraska embraced in the drainage basins of North and South Platte Rivers and their tributaries above their junction at North Platte, Nebr. (At the close of fiscal year 1950 the Denver District was discontinued and incorporated into the Omaha, Nebr., district).

District engineer: Lt. Col., L. J. Lincoln, Corps of Engineers. Division engineer of the Missouri River Division, Omaha, Nebr., comprising the Kansas City, Mo., Omaha, Nebr., Garrison, N. Dak., Fort Peck, Mont., and Denver, Colo. districts: Brig. Gen. S. D. Sturgis, Jr.

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5. Emergency flood-control work

1673

6. Preliminary examinations, surveys, and contingencies for flood control

1674

7. Disaster operation "Snowbound"

1674

1675

8. Inactive flood-control projects

1. MISSOURI RIVER BASIN, DENVER DISTRICT Location. The flood-control improvements included in this project are located on and along the Missouri River and several of the principal tributaries of the Missouri River and are located in the states comprising the Missouri River Basin.

Existing project. The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin provides for levees along the Missouri River between Sioux City, Iowa, and the mouth and reservoirs located on the main stem of the Missouri River and on the tributaries for control of flood flows at the dam sites. The existing project was authorized by the following flood-control acts:

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