Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1986: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, Part 2

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Page 1556 - Texas, and generally extends from St. Louis in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.
Page 1927 - JOHNSON, CHIEF, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT OFFICE WILLIAM H. OSBORNE, ASSISTANT CHIEF, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Mr. BEVILL. The Committee will come to order. General...
Page 2119 - Congress, but which are being studied under the authority of section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948.
Page 2391 - Commission staff with us today, and we will be glad to try to answer any questions you or other members of the committee may have.
Page 1552 - MAINTENANCE DREDGING OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM BATON ROUGE TO THE GULF OF MEXICO.— We urge approval of the $64,430,000 in the President's fiscal year 2000 budget under O&M General.
Page 1533 - Saint is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College and the Army War College.
Page 1570 - ... funnel with its upper part spread across the Nation and with its spout at the Gulf of Mexico. Waters from as far east as New York and as far west as the Montana-Idaho line contribute to flows in the lower river. Mississippi River floods are not a development of recent years. The Mississippi has always been a threat to the security of the valley through which it flows. It was discovered by DeSoto in 1541. De la Vega, in his history of the expedition, described the first recorded flood on the Mississippi...
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