Flood Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4485 ... May 29-June 15, 1944 |
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... MISSOURI RIVER BASIN The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin approved by the Act of June 28 , 1938 , as modified by sub- sequent Acts , is hereby expanded to include the plan of ...
... MISSOURI RIVER BASIN The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin approved by the Act of June 28 , 1938 , as modified by sub- sequent Acts , is hereby expanded to include the plan of ...
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... Missouri River , from Kansas City to the mouth ; and also on the Upper Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River down to Cairo . I might say that I took occasion to observe those flood waters a short distance up from the ...
... Missouri River , from Kansas City to the mouth ; and also on the Upper Mississippi River from the mouth of the Missouri River down to Cairo . I might say that I took occasion to observe those flood waters a short distance up from the ...
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... Missouri for 138 miles , and empties into the Missouri River , in Chari- ton County , about 7 miles above Glasgow , Mo. The basin population is approximately 40,400 in Iowa , and 72,700 in Missouri . A farm population constitutes about ...
... Missouri for 138 miles , and empties into the Missouri River , in Chari- ton County , about 7 miles above Glasgow , Mo. The basin population is approximately 40,400 in Iowa , and 72,700 in Missouri . A farm population constitutes about ...
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... Missouri River Basin project proposed to be authorized by the paragraph beginning at line 13 on page 12 , and ending at line 10 on page 13 of this bill is not , in my opinion , truly comprehensive in character . The reasons for this ...
... Missouri River Basin project proposed to be authorized by the paragraph beginning at line 13 on page 12 , and ending at line 10 on page 13 of this bill is not , in my opinion , truly comprehensive in character . The reasons for this ...
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... Missouri . What dam is that , General ? General ROBINS . That is the Isabella Dam on the Kern River , Senator . Senator OVERTON . That is a project that the President recommended be turned over to the Bureau of Reclamation and not be ...
... Missouri . What dam is that , General ? General ROBINS . That is the Isabella Dam on the Kern River , Senator . Senator OVERTON . That is a project that the President recommended be turned over to the Bureau of Reclamation and not be ...
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acre-feet acres agencies agricultural Arkansas Army engineers authorized BASHORE benefits Bureau of Reclamation Calif California Central Valley project Chairman CHEADLE Chief of Engineers CLARK of Missouri Colonel GOETHALS Colonel REBER Congress conservation construction Corps of Engineers County Creek crops Department farm feet flood control flood protection flood-control bill flood-control project Governor SHARPE harbor bill hearings high dam House Document improvement interests Interior irrigation district Kern River Kings River levees ment miles Mississippi Missouri River Basin multiple-purpose navigation objection operation percent Pick plan proposed purposes question recommendations Representative river and harbor ROBINS Sacramento River San Joaquin River Secretary Senator AIKEN Senator AUSTIN Senator BURTON Senator CLARK Senator CORDON Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MILLIKIN Senator OVERTON Senator ROBERTSON Shasta Dam statement storage streams subcommittee Table Mountain Dam tion tributaries Tulare Lake Tuolumne River United West Williamsville
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Page 719 - That nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder...
Page 719 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 719 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 33 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 808 - Preference in the .sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives.
Page 249 - River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy as a means of making, the project herein authorized a self-supporting and financially solvent undertaking...
Page 249 - Indian reservations, and other beneficial uses, and for the generation and sale of electric energy as a means of financially aiding and assisting such undertakings and in order to permit the full utilization of the works constructed to accomplish the aforesaid purposes...
Page 251 - 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.
Page 42 - The Constitution of the United States provides that " the Congress shall have power "" to regulate commerce
Page 808 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.