Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1953: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7268, Making Appropriations for Civil Functions Administered by the Department of the Army for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1953 |
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... floods is estimated at $ 25 million . These and similar floods will occur throughout the Nation until adequate flood protection works have been provided . The one bright spot in this picture is the fact that some flood control projects ...
... floods is estimated at $ 25 million . These and similar floods will occur throughout the Nation until adequate flood protection works have been provided . The one bright spot in this picture is the fact that some flood control projects ...
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... FLOOD - CONTROL PROJECTS $ 25,000 30 , 000 172 , 000 125,000 150,000 General PICK . Benefits from the completed flood - control projects have already greatly exceeded our original expectations , and many of them have prevented damages ...
... FLOOD - CONTROL PROJECTS $ 25,000 30 , 000 172 , 000 125,000 150,000 General PICK . Benefits from the completed flood - control projects have already greatly exceeded our original expectations , and many of them have prevented damages ...
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... control of those floods which created such destruction in the Kansas River Valley last year . Chairman McKELLAR . I ... flood - control projects . FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS FOR DEFENSE AREAS Senator MCCLELLAN . May I ask you this , General ...
... control of those floods which created such destruction in the Kansas River Valley last year . Chairman McKELLAR . I ... flood - control projects . FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS FOR DEFENSE AREAS Senator MCCLELLAN . May I ask you this , General ...
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... flood - control works of the alluvial valley , we are not unmindful of the fact that in these critical times this Nation is being called upon to expend billions of dollars for national defense and more to check the spread of communism ...
... flood - control works of the alluvial valley , we are not unmindful of the fact that in these critical times this Nation is being called upon to expend billions of dollars for national defense and more to check the spread of communism ...
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... flood - control plan for the protection of the lower Mississippi Valley . Until they are completed they serve no useful purpose in the control of the flood- waters of these streams . With adequate annual appropriations these reservoirs ...
... flood - control plan for the protection of the lower Mississippi Valley . Until they are completed they serve no useful purpose in the control of the flood- waters of these streams . With adequate annual appropriations these reservoirs ...
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acres additional amount appropriation Arkansas River Army engineers authorized bank stabilization Basin bridge budget estimate Bureau California Canal Celilo Falls Chairman MCKELLAR channel Chief of Engineers CHORPENING Civil Functions Colonel PAULES Columbia River committee completed Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost County Creek cut-off Dalles Dam damage delay drainage dredging economic ERDAHL Federal Government feet FERINGA fiscal year 1953 fish fishery flood control Francis River funds going Hartwell Hartwell Dam House increase Indians industrial KENNETH MCKELLAR kilowatts land located lock and dam miles million Mississippi River Missouri navigation Northwest operation percent planning plant present record reduction Representative requested Reservoir river and harbor Sacramento San Joaquin River schedule Senator CAIN Senator CORDON Senator ELLENDER Senator KNOWLAND Senator MCCLELLAN Senator ROBERTSON Senator STENNIS statement tion treaty tribes United United States Senate Valley Washington Yakima
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Page 53 - We will place the whole statement in the record at this point and we will be glad to hear your summary of items you think should be highlighted for the committee.
Page 243 - Providing that the penalties and procedure applicable to violations of the laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 442 - Are there any further questions? If not, thank you very much, gentlemen, for all of your appearances here today.
Page 597 - The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams, where running through or bordering said reservation, is further secured to said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places, in common with citizens of the Territory...
Page 216 - Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring'), That the Senate advise and consent to the...
Page 215 - ... before the agent, the property taken shall be returned, or in default thereof, or if injured or destroyed, compensation may be made by the Government out of their annuities. Nor will they make war on any other tribe except in...
Page 215 - This treaty shall be obligatory upon the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States.
Page 776 - Governor of the Canal Zone and President of the Panama Canal Company.
Page 588 - That the exclusive right of taking fish in the streams running through and bordering said reservation is hereby secured to said Indians, and at all other usual and accustomed stations in common with citizens of the United States...
Page 381 - Because of the diversion features and the close inter-relation of the areas subject to flooding from this group of streams, all project features are Integrated and full benefits cannot be realized from individual structures until the project is completed as a whole. For instance, Bear Creek affords the greatest threat to the city of Merced and environs, and that threat will not be removed until Bear Creek Reservoir is completed and in operation.