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... feet , of which 2,360,000 acre - feet will be allocated to flood control and 3,408,000 acre - feet for power development . The minimum power pool of 964,000 acre - feet will be avail- able for recreation and conservation . The reservoir ...
... feet , of which 2,360,000 acre - feet will be allocated to flood control and 3,408,000 acre - feet for power development . The minimum power pool of 964,000 acre - feet will be avail- able for recreation and conservation . The reservoir ...
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... feet for flood control , power development , recreation , and conservation . The contract for construction of the dam and appurtenant works was approximately 8 percent complete when suspended in 1942 due to the war . Funds are required ...
... feet for flood control , power development , recreation , and conservation . The contract for construction of the dam and appurtenant works was approximately 8 percent complete when suspended in 1942 due to the war . Funds are required ...
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... feet high and 3,000 feet long . The construction of the project will involve the relocation of approximately 23 miles of railroad , 13 miles of State highway , and 37 miles of telephone line . The total estimated cost of the project is ...
... feet high and 3,000 feet long . The construction of the project will involve the relocation of approximately 23 miles of railroad , 13 miles of State highway , and 37 miles of telephone line . The total estimated cost of the project is ...
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... feet ( pool elevation ) of constructing dikes or levees which would be required by higher maximum , normal pool elevation than 1,830 feet for operating such dam . INTERPRETATION OF HOUSE PROVISO Is it your interpretation that you can ...
... feet ( pool elevation ) of constructing dikes or levees which would be required by higher maximum , normal pool elevation than 1,830 feet for operating such dam . INTERPRETATION OF HOUSE PROVISO Is it your interpretation that you can ...
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... feet above sea level ? General WHEELER . We are figuring on a minimum 6 - year construc- tion period , and then to fill it to 1,830 would require at least a year and a half longer . So it will be arouna 7 years before we will have the ...
... feet above sea level ? General WHEELER . We are figuring on a minimum 6 - year construc- tion period , and then to fill it to 1,830 would require at least a year and a half longer . So it will be arouna 7 years before we will have the ...
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Page 530 - 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.
Page 479 - 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 96 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved January 21, 1927 (44 Stat.
Page 479 - 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 533 - States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government...
Page 519 - Engineers has given you sufficient statistical data on the matter, and if there are any questions, I will be glad to answer them, sir.
Page 278 - Without objection, it will be placed in the record. (The letter referred to is as follows:) DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE, San Arngdo, Tex., February 21, 194S.
Page 482 - The projects for flood protection on the Mississippi River at St. Paul and South St. Paul, Minnesota, are hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 223, 85th Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,705,500.
Page 530 - Electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the War Department and in the opinion of the Secretary of War not required in the operation of such projects shall be delivered to the Secretary of the 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...
Page 60 - December 29, 1943, between the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, the Federal Power Commission, the Department of Agriculture, and the Corps of Engineers...