FLOOD CONTROL IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY DOCUMENT SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3531 DIV. A BILL TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR MAY 15, 1928 45952 JANUARY 27, 28, 29, AND 30, 1936 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1936 COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE ROYAL S. COPELAND, New York, Chairman DUNCAN U. FLETCHER, Florida MORRIS SHEPPARD, Texas CHARLES L. McNARY, Oregon HIRAM W. JOHNSON, California JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY, North Carolina GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota FLOOD CONTROL IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL The Subcommittee on Flood Control met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in the Capitol, Senator Morris Sheppard presiding. Present: Senators Sheppard (chairman of the subcommittee), Bilbo, and Gibson; also Senator Overton, who was added for the consideration of S. 3531. Present also: Senator Caraway of Arkansas. Senator SHEPPARD (chairman of the subcommittee). The Subcommittee on Flood Control will come to order. This hearing is to be on S. 3531, introduced by Senator Overton, to amend the act entitled "An act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes", approved May 15, 1928. The committee reporter will set out the bill in full at this point in the hearing: [S. 3531, 74th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To amend the Act entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes", approved May 15, 1928 "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the project for the control of floods of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, adopted by Public Act Numbered 391, approved May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), Seventieth Congress, entitled "An Act for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for other purposes", is hereby modified in accordance with the recommendations of section 43 of the report submitted by the Chief of Engineers to the Chairman of the Committee on Flood Control, dated February 12, 1935, and printed in House Committee on Flood Control Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, as hereinafter further modified and amended; and as so modified is hereby adopted and authorized and directed to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. SEC. 2. That the Boeuf Floodway, authorized by the provisions adopted in the Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928, shall be abandoned as soon as the Eudora Floodway, provided for in Flood Control Committee Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fourth Congress, first session, is in operative condition and the back-protection levee recommended in said document, extending north from the head of the Eudora Floodway, shall have been constructed. SEO. 3. That the levees along the Mississippi River from the head of the Morganza floodway to the head of the Atchafalaya River and down the east bank of the Atchafalaya River to intersection with the west protection levee of said Morganza floodway shall be raised and enlarged to 1928 grade and section. SEC. 4. That neither of the projects for the flood control of the Saint Francis River or the Yazoo River, hereby authorized, shall be undertaken until the States, or other qualified agencies, shall have furnished satisfactory assurances |