Flood Control: Hearing Before a Subcommittee, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 6634, an Act Amending Previous Flood-control Acts, and Authorizing Certain Preliminary Examinations and Surveys for Flood Control, and for Other Purposes. July 13, 1939

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Página 1 - 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.
Página 1 - 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...
Página 1 - ... channels in navigable streams and tributaries thereof, when in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable in the interest of flood control: Provided, That not more than $250,000 shall be expended for this purpose for any single tributary from the appropriations for any one fiscal year.
Página 1 - And provided further, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this Act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law: Gotts Island Channel, Maine.
Página 1 - 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...
Página 1 - That the surveys authorized to be performed under the direction of the Secretary of War as well as all duties performed by the Chief of Engineers under the direction of the Secretary of War shall be functions of the Engineer Corps, United States Army, and its head, to be administered under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Página 1 - ... 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...
Página 1 - That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to allot not to exceed $300,000 from any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for any one fiscal year for improvement of rivers and harbors, for removing accumulated snags and other debris, and for protecting, clearing, and straightening channels in navigable harbors and...
Página 1 - War is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be performed under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control, including floods aggravated by or due to tidal effect, at the following-named localities...
Página 1 - ... terms of the Federal flood-control law. The law is the 1938 act, Public Law 396, Seventysixth Congress, first session, section 4 of which states: The flood-control plan for the Ohio River Basin authorized in section 4 of the Act of Congress June 28, 1939, shall include the Muskingum River Valley damn and reservoirs as set forth in the official plan of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and the provisions of section 2 of the said Act shall apnl-' thereto — with certain provisions relative...

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