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000 Location 1949.-Funds are needed acres Additional to complete allotments to date amount approximately Arkansas River Army authorized average annual benefits Bayou budget Buford Dam Calif Chairman channel Colonel FERINGA Colonel MARSHALL Columbia River committee complete after fiscal Congress continuing contract County Creek drainage ENGEL estimated Federal cost facilities feet fiscal year 1948.-Construction fiscal year 1949 fiscal year 1949.-Funds Flood Control Act funds going Guam Harbor Act hatchery HORKAN Includes 1948 appropriation increase industrial Item June 30 justification KERR land LARKIN levee district LOUGHRY MAHON maintenance Major KIRK McNary Dam MEHAFFEY miles Mississippi River Missouri River National Cemetery NORRELL Ohio Ohio River Oreg Panama percent complete Port St Proposed operations requested Reservoir River and Harbor River Basin Sacramento Sacramento River San Joaquin River SCRIVNER statement Tentative allocation fiscal TIBBOTT tion Total estimated Federal United Valley waterway WHEELER
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Page 617 - ... Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal...
Page 620 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco.
Page 624 - In case of an international conflagration or the existence of any threat of aggression which would endanger the security of the Republic of Panama or the neutrality or security of the Panama Canal, the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Panama will take such measures of prevention and defense as they may consider necessary for the protection of their common interests. Any measures, in safeguarding such interests, which it shall appear essential to one Government to take,...
Page 619 - Welles. Assistant Secretary of State of the United States of America; and The President of the Republic of Panama; The Honorable Doctor Ricardo J. Alfaro, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Panama to the United States of America, and The Honorable Doctor...
Page 483 - That the sum of $12,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers for the repair, restoration, and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have been threatened or destroyed by the recent floods, or which may be threatened or destroyed by later floods, and for completion of work begun under the Acts entitled "An Act to provide for emergency flood-control...
Page 622 - Colon may enjoy direct means of land communication under Panamanian jurisdiction with other territory under jurisdiction of the Republic of Panama, the United States of America hereby transfers to the Republic of Panama jurisdiction over a corridor, the exact limits of which shall be agreed upon and demarcated by the two Governments pursuant to the following description : (a) The end at...
Page 500 - The 1928 act authorized $5,000,000 which has been exhausted and the 1936 act authorized $15,000,000 to replenish these funds "to be allocated by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in rescue work or in the repair and maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood heretofore or hereafter occurring.
Page 621 - The Government of the Republic of Panama shall not impose import duties or taxes of any kind on goods destined for or consigned to the agencies of the Government of the United States of America in the Republic of Panama when the goods are intended for the official use of such agencies, or upon goods destined for or consigned to persons included in classes (a) and (b) in...
Page 623 - ... included in the above-described corridor. The stream and drainage crossings of any highway built in the corridor shall not restrict the water passage to less than the capacity of the existing streams and drainage. No other construction will take place within the corridor than that relating to the construction of a highway and to the installation of electric power, telephone and telegraph lines; and the only activities which will be conducted within the said corridor will be those pertaining to...
Page 553 - Interior, and with the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the particular State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed...