Public Works Appropriations for 1956: Hearings ... 84th Congress, 1st Session; Central Section |
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AANDAHL acre-feet acres additional agricultural allocation amount appropriation Arkansas River authorized bank stabilization Basin project benefit-cost ratio benefits budget Bureau of Reclamation canal CANNON capacity Chairman channel CLINTON Colonel STARBIRD committee completed Congress construction contract cooperatives Corps of Engineers County Creek Dardanelle DAVIS DEXHEIMER division DOMINY drainage drought Electric facilities farm feet firm power fiscal year 1956 flood control funds Garrison Garrison Dam Glendo going Government included increase installation irrigation June June 30 Kansas City kilowatt-hours kilowatts land MAGNUSON matter referred miles million Missouri Basin Missouri River Basin navigation Nebraska North Dakota Oahe Oahe Dam Oklahoma Omaha operation and maintenance percent PHILLIPS plant POTTER powerplant present proposed pumping RABAUT record relocation repayment requested Reservoir RILEY schedule Sioux City Southwestern Power Southwestern Power Administration STANFORD statement substation tion unit Valley WRIGHT Yellowtail
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Page 29 - M. of section 4 of the act of December 5, 1924, 43 Stat. 703, 43 USC 438, and section 44 of the act of May 25, 1926, 44 Stat.
Page 17 - War, the Department of Justice, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor. The...
Page 487 - National Park Service" of section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1602; 16 USC 14). Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes", approved December 24, 1944 (16 USC 460d), as amended by the Flood Control Act of 1962 (76 Stat.
Page 357 - Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto...
Page 110 - Norton faces a chronic water shortage in the future as it did this past summer when the city was almost without water on many occasions ; and Whereas there has been authorized by the Congress as a part of the Pick-Sloan plan, a dam known as the Norton Dam in the Almena project for irrigation to be constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior; and Whereas there is an immediate need for the construction of the same, not only for...
Page 75 - That matter was taken up to the circuit court of appeals, and the circuit court of appeals has just reversed the decision of the circuit court and virtually held that no damages can be recovered.
Page 286 - ... at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost, interest on an appropriate share of the construction investment at not less than 3 per centum per annum, and such other fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper...
Page 212 - Council testified; other hearings were held before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the United States Senate at one of which the chairman of the Research Council testified.
Page 357 - State agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State, based on surveys and investigations conducted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and such State agency for the purpose of determining the possible damage to wildlife resources...
Page 286 - ... supply and allocated to irrigation; and shall require payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year. In the event such contracts are made for furnishing water for irrigation purposes, the costs of any irrigation water distribution works constructed by the United States in connection with the new project, new division of a project, or supplemental works on a project, shall be covered by a repayment contract entered into pursuant to said subsection (d) The provisions...