Flood Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4911 : an Act Authorizing the Construction of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors for Flood Control, and for Other Purposes .. |
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Act of June amendment ARGETSINGER Arkansas Army engineers Bayou Board of Engineers center line Chairman CHANDLER channel Chattanooga Flood Protection Chief of Engineers city of Hartford Connecticut River constructed substantially County Department drainage Engineers in House estimated cost Federal Government feet Flood Control Committee Flood Protection District flood-control project floodway flow Fort Oglethorpe Gully Brook conduit hearings hereby authorized House Document Numbered House of Representatives improvement included June 28 letter levees Mahoning River Major REBER Mississippi River Missouri modification Mosquito Creek Mosquito Creek Reservoir national defense Park River conduit plants President proposed purposes railroads recommendation reference Reservoir River and tributaries Rivers and Harbors Rossville SCHLEY Secretary Secretary of War Senator BURTON Senator MALONEY Senator MCNARY Senator OVERTON Seventy-sixth Congress sewer statement steel stream substantially in accordance survey TARVER Tennessee River Tennessee Valley Authority third session tion TYLER United water supply White River Youngstown
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Page 12 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 12 - Territorial possessions, which include the following-named localities, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and waterflow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on such drainage areas ; the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for such purposes...
Page 46 - An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes", approved April 27, 1935, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following : "SEC.
Page 46 - To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive measures needed...
Page 3 - Floodway substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document No.
Page 10 - That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to allot, from any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for flood control, not to exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year to be expended in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work threatened or destroyed by flood.
Page 6 - August 18, 1941, authorized to be appropriated the sum of $24.000,000, in addition to previous authorizations, for the prosecution of the comprehensive plan approved in the Act of June 28. 1938. for the...
Page 12 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 9 - Provided, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior act or joint resolution shall be made: Provided further, That after the regular or formal reports made as required by law on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless...
Page 7 - In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $144,000,000 for the prosecution of the comprehensive plan for the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken by the Corps of Engineers, approved by the Act of June 28, 1938, as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress.