...Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters and their tributaries for flood-control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever...estimated costs and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. No such specific criteria have been established by law for...

...watersheds for flood-control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue nre in excess of estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of the people are otherwise alfected. The Department of the Army, specifically the Chief of Engineers, shall have the Jurisdiction...

...that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected." 49 Stat. 1570, 33 USC § 701a. In the same Act, the Secretary...

...1936 states that the Federal Government should undertake or participate in flood control improvements "if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people arc otherwise adversely affected." In compliance with this policy statement, benefits and costs...

...activity of the Federal Government in cooperation with States and local interests where the benefits are in excess of the estimated costs and if the lives...security of the people are otherwise adversely affected. From that beginning there has grown the vast flood-control program undertaken by the Federal Government...

...that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. "SEC. 2. That, hereafter, Federal investigations and improvements...

...that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected." "Washington, District of Columbia: Levees and grade raising...

...that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. "SEC. 2. That, hereafter, Federal investigations and improvements...

...flood-control acts are brief but clear. The 1936 act states that the Federal Government should undertake work for flood-control purposes "if the benefits to whomsoever...they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs * * *." Reports submitted to Congress under the flood-control acts must, therefore, show that total...

..."[Tlhe Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters, or their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for...estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected." (Emphasis added.) Pursuant to this policy statement, Federal...