COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS. EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 8165 (H. R. 6080, H. R. 6098, H. R. 6100, H. R. 6956, H. R. 8165, A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AND THE 20871 MAY 27, 28, JUNE 4, AND 5, 1952 Printed for use of the Committee on Public Works 52-4135 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1952 Church, Hon. Marguerite Stitt, Member of Congress from the State Fenlon, Lawrence J., principal assistant attorney, Sanitary District Milne, Col. William B., Deputy Chief of Civil Works for Rivers and Harbors, Corps of Engineers, United States Army- Myers, Gwynne B., assistant attorney general, State of Ohio.- Naujoks, Herbert H., general counsel, Great Lakes Harbor Associ- Griglik, Casimir, trustee, Sanitary District of Chicago‒‒‒‒ Hoan, Daniel W., president, Great Lakes Harbor Association__- Hoffman, Hon. Clare E., Member of Congress from the State of Johnson, Gilbert R., counsel, Lake Carriers' Association__ Jonas, Hon. Edgar A., Member of Congress from the State of Illinois_- Keating, Hon. Kenneth B., Member of Congress from the State of Kluczynski, Hon. John C., Member of Congress from the State of Mason, Hon. Noah M., Member of Congress from the State of Illinois_- Meserow, Albert J., counsel, Association for the Protection of Great 143, 170 Olis, Anthony A., president, Sanitary District of Chicago. 51 29 Patterson, William F., trustee, Sanitary District of Chicago-- 66 Schaeffer, Mrs. Helen, publisher, Illinoian Star, Beardstown, Ill__. Shaw, Humphrey S., clerk, Committee on Rules, House of Repre- 136 Stanley, Hon. A. O., Chairman, International Joint Commission__. Tate, Jack B., deputy legal adviser, Department of State---- 120 Tulane, Hon. Roy, assistant attorney general, State of Wisconsin--- 106, 118 Velde, Hon. Harold H., Member of Congress from the State of Illinois_- Zablocki, Hon. Clement J., Member of Congress from the State of Wis- 187 Additional information submitted for the record by- Association for the Protection of Great Lakes Property, Inc., final Butler, Hon. John C., statement of---- Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry, telegram from Guy E. * Great Lakes Harbor Association: Boundary waters treaty of January 11, 1909 (ratified in 1910),' does not sanction nor authorize the Chicago diversions; such 101 107 202 180 By Diverting More Lake Water Lockport Can Double Power, 162 18 Greater Muskegon Chamber of Commerce, resolution of Illinois Fisheries Council, letter from Howard S. White, attorney--. Illinois Valley Antidiversion Association: Four Floods Recalled-Beardstown Balks at Diversion Plan, newspaper article by Howard Kenny_ Letter from Milo W. Nelson, president.. The Sportsman-Valley Threatened by Chicago Pollution, news- paper article by Howard Kenny--- Trying To Put One Over, newspaper editorial_ Kluczynski, Hon. John C.: The Lake Diversion Compromise, editorial New York State Department of Law, letter from Nathaniel L. Gold- Sabath, Hon. Adolph J., statement of____. Great Lakes levels and their changes, by H. P. Ramey_ Map showing Illinois waterway, Chicago to Grafton_ Memorandum in support of H. R. 6098, H. R. 6100, and House Joint Resolution 372_. Schaeffer, Mrs. L. G., telegram from_. Schricker, Hon. Henry F., Governor of Indiana, letter from___. Chicago's Bills for More Diversion of Lake Water, editorial from Welbourne, D. R., member Beardstown (Ill.) Flood Control Commit- ILLINOIS WATERWAY-DIVERSION OF WATER FROM LAKE MICHIGAN TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1952 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a. m., in room 1302, New House Office Building, Hon. Henry D. Larcade presiding. Mr. LARCADE. The meeting will come to order. The purpose of the meeting this morning of the committee is for the consideration of H. R. 6100 by Mr. Sheehan and H. R. 6098 by Mr. Kluczynski, as well as two bills by Mr. Hoffman of Michigan, H. R. 6080 and H. R. 6956, as well as H. J. Res. 358 by Mr. Ford and H. J. Res. 372 by Mr. Sabath. All of these bills are on the subject, "To authorize the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, to help control the lake level of Lake Michigan by diverting water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois waterway." At this time, without objection on the part of the committee, we will have each one of these bills included in the record and considered as read. (The bills referred to are as follows:) [H. J. Res. 372, 82d Cong., 2d sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION To permit the diversion and withdrawal of additional water from Lake Michigan by the Sanitary District of Chicago Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the date of the enactment of this joint resolution, the Sanitary District of Chicago is authorized, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe and with the approval of the Chief of Engineers, to divert and withdraw water from Lake Michigan at a rate not to exceed three thousand five hundred cubic feet per second in addition to all domestic pumpage, to flow into the current of the Chicago Sanitary District Canal which provides water transportation from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, the Calumet River, the Sag Canal, or such other waterways as may heretofore have been authorized by the Congress. The Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized and directed from time to time to review the rate of such diversion and withdrawal of water, and to order an increase or decrease therein whenever he deems it appropriate in the interests of navigation and interstate commerce and in the light of conditions in and around Chicago. [H. J. Res. 358, 82d Cong., 2d sess.] JOINT RESOLUTION To create a Great Lakes Water Level Commission Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 1 |