EXTENDING AN INVITATION TO HOLD THE 1956 OLYMPIC GAMES AT DETROIT, MICH. MARCH 9, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. KEE, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the following REPORT (To accompany H. J. Res. 178) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 178) extending an invitation to the International Olympic Committee to hold the 1956 Olympic games at Detroit, Mich., having considered the same, report favorably and unanimously thereon without amendment and recommend that the joint resolution do pass. The International Olympic Committee is being invited by the United States Olympic Association (of which the President of the United States is honorary president) to hold the Olympic games in Detroit, Mich., in 1956. House Joint Resolution 178 gives official United States sanction to this invitation. The extension of the invitation will involve no fiscal expense to the United States Government. The city of Detroit was designated as the site of the Olympic games when they are next held in the United States, after an investigation and selection made by a committee of the United States Olympic Association. Prompt action on House Joint Resolution 178 is recommended because the site of the 1956 Olympic games will be decided at a meeting of the international committee to be held in Rome in April 1949. O AUTHORIZING THE AMERICAN RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT, CALIFORNIA, FOR IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION MARCH 9, 1949.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ENGLE of California. from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 165] The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 165) to authorize the American River Basin development, California, for irrigation and reclamation, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows: Page 1, line 6, strike out "and the whole" and insert in lieu thereof "which development". Page 2, line 16, strike out "ninety" and insert in lieu thereof "one hundred twenty". Page 2, line 17, insert "hydroelectric" before the word "afterbay” and insert "power plants" after the word "afterbay". Page 2, lines 17-19, strike out: "such supplemental works and equipment as may be required to maintain a firm supply of electrical energy,". Page 3, line 2, insert "further" after the word "hereby". Page 3, line 6, after the word "project" insert: ", including studies of such supplemental works and equipment as may be required to maintain a firm supply of electric energy,". Page 3, line 11, insert "particularly" after the word "and". Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed by implication or otherwise as an allocation of water and in the studies for the purposes of developing plans for disposal of water as herein authorized the Secretary of the Interior shall make recommendations for the use of water in accord with State water laws, including but not limited to such laws giving priority to the counties and areas of origin for present and future needs. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of this bill is to extend and reauthorize the Central Valley project, California, to include the Folsom Dam and Reservoir and supplemental works as a part of that project. HISTORY OF FOLSOM PROJECT The Folsom Dam was authorized for construction as a flood control project by the Army engineers in 1944 (Public Law 534, 78th Cong., H. Doc. 649). The plans called for 355,000 acre-feet storage capacity. Though part of this capacity was earmarked for irrigation, the authorization did not include provision for construction of irrigation or power facilities. After the project was authorized and prior to any appropriation for construction it was agreed that the project should be enlarged and built as a multiple-purpose project for flood control, irrigation, power, and other beneficial uses. The Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the State water authorities all agreed finally that the initial plans for a reservoir of 355,000 acre-feet capacity should be enlarged to provide a reservoir of 1,000,000 acre-feet capacity which would not only provide more adequate storage for flood control but also provide the minimum storage required for irrigation, hydroelectric power, and other uses consistent with the conservation of water resources in the Central Valley area. On January 12, 1948, the President of the United States sent a special message to Congress specifically recommending that the present authorization be expanded to a million acre-feet and that provision be made for transfer of the dam and reservoir when construction is completed by the Army engineers to the Bureau of Reclamation for operation and maintenance as a coordinated part of the Central Valley project under the Federal reclamation laws; for the construction by the Bureau of Reclamation of a power plant, afterbay, and necessary transmission lines; and for construction by the Bureau of Reclamation of irrigation canals and related works needed to deliver water to irrigation districts, cities, and suburban areas. The complete text of the President's message appears in the appendix of this report. In the Eightieth Congress, second session, the sum of $1,000,000 was appropriated for the Army engineers to commence construction on the project, it being understood that the necessary legislation authorizing the dam on the million acre-foot basis and carrying the other recommendations of the President would be prepared by this committee. Bills introduced for that purpose were the subject of extensive hearings in the spring of 1948 but the legislation was not enacted in the Eightieth Congress. NECESSITY FOR LEGISLATION As indicated by the foregoing, it is necessary immediately to enact legislation increasing the authorization of this project from one involving 355,000 acre-feet storage capacity to 1,000,000 acre-feet so that construction can proceed on the agreed capacity, and, in addition, to provide for the power and irrigation features recommended by the President which will then be required for full utilization of that capacity. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL The bill as amended provides for the construction by the Corps of Engineers of Folsom Dam and Reservoir on the American River, Calif., with a storage capacity of approximately 1,000,000 acre-feet in lieu of the now authorized 355,000 acre-feet dam and reservoir. The cost of the dam and reservoir has been estimated by the Corps of Engineers on the basis of October 1948 prices at $51,800,000. The bill as amended also authorizes construction by the Bureau of Reclamation of certain facilities on Sly Park and Camp Creeks for irrigation of lands in El Dorado County, of a hydroelectric plant at Folsom Dam with an installed capacity of 120,000 kilowatts, of smaller power plants downstream from but closely related to the Folsom Dam plant, and of all necessary transmission lines from these power plants to load centers. As of October 1948, the cost of these works was estimated by the Bureau of Reclamation at $59,200,000. All costs of the American River development save those made nonreimbursable by law will be returned to the United States pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws. The developments thus authorized will utilize but a part of the potentialities of the American River Basin's waters. Accordingly, the bill provides for studies by the Bureau of Reclamation of means of making full use of the remaining water and of the need therefor, and for report thereon. Among the investigations which are to be made and reported on are studies of the feasibility of diversion canals leading north and south from Folsom Reservoir to serve lands in El Dorado, Sacramento, and Placer Counties, of canals and appurtenant works to serve lands in Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, and San Benito Counties, and of supplemental works and equipment needed to furnish and maintain a firm supply of electric energy. The studies are to take full account of the water laws of the State of California, including such laws as give priority to present and future uses of water in the areas in which it originates. The bill provides further that upon completion Folsom Dam and Reservoir shall be transferred to the Bureau of Reclamation for operation and maintenance in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws and section 7 of the Flood Control Act of 1944. Folsom Dam and Reservoir and the other works authorized in this bill will become an integral part of the Central Valley project, California. Its surplus power revenues will become available to aid irrigation developments in the Central Valley area which could not otherwise go forward. The power generated at its plants will be interchanged with power from other Central Valley developments which is, in part, timed to serve the needs of the whole Central Valley area including particularly, the control of saline intrusions in the bay region. FURTHER MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Emphasizing the importance of this legislation along the lines of H. R. 165, the President in a letter to the chairman of the Committee on Public Lands dated February 25, 1949, again urged the early enactment into law of his recommendations originally made in his |