SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 4485 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES MAY 29, 31, JUNE 1,2,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1944 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce UNITED STATES WASHINGTON : 1944 60479 JOSIAH W. BAILEY, North Carolina, Chairman HATTIE W. CARAWAY, Arkansas HIRAM W. JOHNSON, California BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, Missouri ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan JOHN H. OVERTON, Louisiana OWEN BREWSTER, Maine THEODORE G. BILBO, Mississippi HAROLD H. BURTON, Ohio FRANCIS MALONEY, Connecticut ALEXANDER WILEY. Wisconsin GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE, Maryland EDWARD V. ROBERTSON, Wyoming CLAUDE PEPPER. Florida GUY CORDON, Oregon A. HAND JAMES, Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE JOHN H. OVERTON, Louisiana, Chairman BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, Missouri ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida OWEN BREWSTER, Maine JAMES M. MEAD, New York HAROLD H. BURTON, Ohio PAT MCCARRAN, Nevada GUY CORDON, Oregon II Reybold, Maj. Gen. Eugene------- Trustin, Harry--- FLOOD CONTROL MONDAY, MAY 29, 1944 UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a. m., pursuant to call, in the Capitol, Senator John H. Overton presiding. Present: Senators Overton (chairman of the subcommittee), Mead, Brewster, Burton, and Cordon. Present also : Senator Caraway. Senator OVERTON. (chairman of the subcommittee). The subcommittee will come to order. There has been submitted to this subcommittee for consideration and hearing H. R. 4485, authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes. The bill will be made a part of the record at this point. (The bill, H. R. 4485, is as follows:) [H. R. 4485, 78th Cong., 2d sess.) AN ACT Authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for 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, That the words "flood control" as used in section 1 of the Act of June 22, 1936, shall be construed to include channel and major drainage improvements, and that hereafter Federal investigations and improvements of rivers and other waterways for flood control and allied purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the War Department under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, and Federal investigations of watersheds and measures for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil erosion prevention on watersheds shall be under the jurisdiction of and shall be prosecuted by the Department of Agriculutr under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress. SEC. 2. That section 3 of the Act approved June 22, 1936 (Public, Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended by section 2 of the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public, Numbered 761, Seventy-fifth Congress), shall apply to all works authorized in this Act, except that for any channel improvement or channel rectification project provisions (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of said Act of June 22, 1936, shall apply thereto, and except as otherwise provided by law: Provided, That the authorization for any flood-control project herein adopted requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from the date on which local interests are notified in writing by the War Department of the requirements of local cooperation, unless said interests shall within said time furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that the required cooperation will be furnished. SEC. 3. The Chief of Engineers, under the supervision of the Secretary of War, is authorized to construct, maintain, and operate park and recreational facilities in reservoir areas under the control of the War Department, and to permit the construction, maintenance, and operation of such facilities. The Secretary |