OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL For expenses necessary for the preservation, operation, maintenance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood control, and related works, including such sums as may be necessary for the maintenance of harbor channels provided by a State, municipality or other public agency, outside of harbor lines, and serving essential needs of general commerce and navigation; financing the United States share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the remedial works in the Niagara River; activities of the California Debris Commission; administration of laws pertaining to preservation of navigable waters; surveys and charting of northern and north Program by activities: 10 1. Navigation projects: (a) Channels and harbors. (b) Locks and dams....... 2. Flood control projects: (a) Reservoirs.. (b) Channel improvements, inspections, and miscellaneous maintenance.. 3. Multiple-purpose projects including power... Total, operation and maintenance of projects. 71 72 74 90 91 4. Protection of navigation.... 5. Niagara remedial works. Total program costs, funded.. Change in selected resources 1.. Total obligations....... Financing: 16 Comparative transfers to other accounts... 21 Unobligated balance available, start of year. 23 Unobligated balance transferred to "Flood control, hurricane and shore protection emergencies," Public Law 88-511, August 30, 1964. 24 Unobligated balance available, end of year. New obligational authority... New obligational authority: 40 Appropriation................ 44 Proposed supplemental due to civilian pay increases.. Relation of obligations to expenditures: 10 Total obligations... 70 Receipts and other offsets (items 11-17). Obligations affecting expenditures.. Obligated balance, start of year.. Obligated balance, end of year....... Expenditures excluding pay increase supplemental pay increase Expenditures from civilian supplemental.. 1964 1965 1966 actual estimate estimate Stores. Unpaid undelivered orders. Advances... 83,940 86,368 90,150 24,970 30,660 30,400 10,357 12,424 14,420 1 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: 1963 1966 1964 1965 200 200 180 306 12,837 12, 185 10,614 8,711 2 Total selected resources_---- 13,019 12,491 10,814 8,911 This appropriation finances operation and maintenance of existing projects and other related activities. 1. Navigation projects.-In 1966 operation and maintenance will be carried out on 229 channel and harbor projects and 31 locks, dams, and canals. 2. Flood control projects.-In 1966, 144 flood control reservoirs and 18 local flood protection projects will be operated and maintained. Other completed flood control projects will be inspected to determine the adequacy of maintenance by local interests. 750-100-65-25 Total estimate 242,000 19,000 67,400 115,000 9,690 25,600 65,800 208,000 180,000 26,900 The Corps of Engineers-Civil is responsible for the flood control program for the lower Mississippi Valley from Cape Girardeau, Mo., to the Gulf of Mexico, including the main alluvial stream, the basins of the St. Francis and White, lower Arkansas, Yazoo, Tensas, and Atchafalaya Rivers, and Bayou Lafourche, and the alluvial lands around Lake Pontchartrain. The adopted plan calls for raising and strengthening about 1,600 miles of existing levees along the main river, for enlarging or constructing some 1,700 miles of levees on tributaries and in side basins, for channel improvement by bank stabilization and by dredging a navigation channel 12 feet deep and 300 feet wide from Baton Rouge, La., to Cairo, Ill., and for five flood-detention reservoirs on minor tributaries. projects threatened or destroyed by flood, as authorized by law (33 U.S.C. 702a, 702g-1), [$77,862,000] $77,060,000, to remain available until expended. (Public Works Appropriation Act, 1965.) To June 30, 1963 204,465 483,140 15,869 58,892 48,043 1,462 21,452 28,685 115,444 115,274 20,364 1,684,390 1,113,090 Obligations 1964 actual 43 91 29 2,566 26,691 632 1,772 4,283 833 426 1,411 6,577 7,644 1,637 23,688 78,323 -2 -757 298 77,862 78,323 -2 78,321 6,922 -8,600 76,643 be completed, and four will be continued. Basic data 1. General investigations.-Two flood control studies will subsequently used in planning and designing projects are collected. |