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(b) Locks and dams.-The budget estimate of $685,000 provides the amount for operational requirements of two projects. Annual requirements are for operation and ordinary maintenance of project facilities; labor, supplies, materials, and parts required for the day-by-day functioning of projects; and periodic maintenance, repairs, and replacements.

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(a) Reservoirs.-The budget estimate of $742,000 for the operation and maintenance of seven flood control reservoirs, including essential repair work, and scheduling of flood control reservoir operations within the division, provides the amount for operational requirements. Annual requirements are for operation and ordinary maintenance of project facilities; labor, supplies, material, and parts required for the day-by-day functioning of projects, and periodic maintenance, repairs, and replacements.

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(b) Channel improvements, inspections, and miscellaneous maintenance.-The budget estimate of $128,000 provides for the essential annual and periodic maintenance requirements of three flood control protection projects and inspection of completed works within the division during the budget year.

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3. Multiple-purpose projects including power

The budget estimate of $8,326,000 for the operation and maintenance of 10 multiple-purpose projects provides the amount for operational requirements. Annual requirements are for operation and ordinary maintenance of project facilities; labor, supplies, materials, and parts required for the day-by-day functioning of the projects; and periodic maintenance, repairs, and replacements.

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4. Protection of navigation

The budget estimate of $159,000 provides for accomplishing the work essential to the administration and enforcement of specific laws enacted for the protection of navigation, and project condition surveys on some projects for which maintenance is not scheduled for the budget year.

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BRIG. GEN. ARTHUR H. FRYE, JR., DIVISION ENGINEER

EDMUND A. BARRETT, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT BRANCH, SOUTH PACIFIC DIVISION

GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS

Mr. CANNON. We shall turn to the South Pacific Division and take up first General Investigations.

Please insert the justifications in the record at this point. (The justifications follow:)

1. Surveys

JUSTIFICATION OF ESTIMATE

(a) Navigation studies.-The amount of $195,000 is requested for continuation of four studies during fiscal year 1965. Tentative allocations by studies follow:

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Consideration of providing harbor for light-draft vessels, to alleviate the shortage of ports of refuge on the California coast. Port Hueneme...

Consideration of modifying the existing project to provide additional deep-draft harbor facilities. Sacramento Valley navigation

Consideration of the feasibility of extending a 10-foot deep navigation channel upstream from the city of Sacramento to Red Bluff on the Sacramento River, to Marysville on the Feather River, and to the State fair site on the American River. San Diego Harbor, Sweetwater River.

Consideration of modifying the existing project to provide smallcraft harbors, additional deep-draft facilities and a second entrance into San Diego Bay development of a plan for flood control in the entire Sweetwater River Basin, including improvements to enhance the tidelands near the mouth.

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(b) Flood control studies.-The amount of $939,000 is requested for prosecution 25 studies during fiscal year 1965. This amount will permit completion of 6 reports and progress on 19 others. Tentative allocations by studies follow:

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Atherton Creek..

Consideration of levees and channel improvements to provide flood protection for urban and industrial developments in an area 30 miles south of San Francisco. Cache Creek...

Consideration of reservoirs for flood control, irrigation, water supply, and recreation on Cache Creek and tributaries, levee and channel improvements in the vicinity of Clear Lake, and a settling basin. Chester

Consideration of possible reservoirs, flood ways, or other means to provide protection in and around the area of Chester, Calif., from floodwaters of the Feather River.

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Consideration of a dam at the mouth of canyon supplemented by channel improvements for flood protection of parts of the cities of Upland and Ontario, Calif., and adjacent valuable agricultural land. Eel River..

Continuation of survey to develop plans for utilization of the water resources of the Eel River to implement the California water plan and provide for flood control, surplus water exportation, power development, recreation, and related purposes.

Fairfield vicinity streams.

Consideration of providing flood control for the area near the city of Fairfield by detention reservoirs, and/or diversions and channel improvements.

Guadalupe River..

Consideration of reservoirs, channel enlargement and construction of levees and bank protection works for flood protection and alleviation of water supply problems.

Jack and Simmerly Sloughs..

Consideration of levees for prevention of flood damages to a suburban area near Marysville.

Kern River-Isabella Reservoir.

Consideration of providing additional storage capacity in the Kern River Basin for flood control, conservation, recreation, and other purposes.

Merced County streams.

Consideration of providing flood control by additional reservoirs, and levees and channel improvements for several localities and the Castle Air Force Base. Poso-Deer-White streams.

Consideration, in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation, of providing flood protection to agricul tural areas by reservoirs, levees, and/ or channel improvements. Richardson Bay streams..

Consideration of levees, channel improvements and upstream reservoirs for flood control, water supply, recreation, and allied purposes. Russian River (Redwood Valley Reservoir).

This is a survey to consider construction of a multiple-purpose reservoir in Redwood Valley for flood control, water supply, recreation, and related purposes. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Consideration of a plan for flood control and navigation in the delta area, consistent with the interbasin plans being developed by the State of California and Bureau of Reclamation, for transfer of water. Sacramento-San Joaquin region.

Consideration of measures to preserve and enhance recreation consistent with the primary flood control and navigational purposes of existing and proposed improve

ments.

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$125,000

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$25,000

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