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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... effect of the bill upon the Commission's jurisdiction in other respects it is recommended that a proviso be added to the bill that nothing therein shall be construed to limit the authority and functions of the Federal Power Commission ...
... effect of the bill upon the Commission's jurisdiction in other respects it is recommended that a proviso be added to the bill that nothing therein shall be construed to limit the authority and functions of the Federal Power Commission ...
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... effect since 1939. Among other things , it pro- vides for monthly meetings in Washington of these officials and their staffs . Free and open discussions take place on all subjects of mutual interest and on all sources of potential ...
... effect since 1939. Among other things , it pro- vides for monthly meetings in Washington of these officials and their staffs . Free and open discussions take place on all subjects of mutual interest and on all sources of potential ...
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... effect on the floods down on the river ? Colonel GOETHALS . Yes ; it will have a very beneficial effect on the conditions down the river , and of all the dams in the project , this will have the most important effect on flood control ...
... effect on the floods down on the river ? Colonel GOETHALS . Yes ; it will have a very beneficial effect on the conditions down the river , and of all the dams in the project , this will have the most important effect on flood control ...
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... effect . Senator OVERTON . Or on the part of residents in general ? Colonel GOETHALS . No , sir ; generally in favor . Senator BURTON . Does that mean it would require additional in- dustrial development down there to make use of the ...
... effect . Senator OVERTON . Or on the part of residents in general ? Colonel GOETHALS . No , sir ; generally in favor . Senator BURTON . Does that mean it would require additional in- dustrial development down there to make use of the ...
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... effect on interstate commerce ; and that the courts cannot question the reasons or the objectives that actuated Congress in voting for a project . It is my opinion that the power of Congress to regulate stream flow of waters that are ...
... effect on interstate commerce ; and that the courts cannot question the reasons or the objectives that actuated Congress in voting for a project . It is my opinion that the power of Congress to regulate stream flow of waters that are ...
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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.