DOCEMENT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 7634 AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND PRES- AND S. 1902 AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR PROSE- CONTENTS Projects included by committee amendment on House floor. Status of investigations on the Big Sioux and Vermillion Rivers.. Quinebaug River, Thames River Basin, Conn. and Mass Richland, Chambers, and Cedar Creeks, Tex (Waxahachie Creek) RIVERS AND HARBORS-FLOOD CONTROL TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1959 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 11:15 a.m., in room 4200, Senate Office Building, Hon. Robert S. Kerr (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Kerr, Randolph, Young (Ohio), Moss, Case (South Dakota), and Cooper. Senator KERR. Good morning, General. General, this committee is always happy to have you come before it and talk to us about projects and progress on the development of water resources. We are happy to receive from you and your staff information on the projects upon which we must take action and report to the Senate. We have before us H.R. 7634, the rivers and harbors, beach erosion control, and flood control omnibus bill which has passed the House of Representatives and has been referred to this committee of the Senate, and S. 1902. (The bills referred to are as follows:) [H.R. 7634, 86th Cong., 1st sess.] AN ACT Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-RIVERS AND HARBORS SEC. 101. That the following works of improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, flood control, and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports hereinafter designated: Provided, That the provisions of section 1 of the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945 (Public Law Numbered 14, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this title; and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full: NAVIGATION Southwest Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 408, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $240,000; Stonington Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 36, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $198,000; South Bristol Harbor, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 30, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $97,000; |