Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1954: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, Volumes 3-4

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1929
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1930
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1931
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1932
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1940
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1941
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1942
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1949
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1950
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1953
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Page 1170 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statet 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 1112 - That for the purpose of controlling the floods, improving navigation and regulating the flow of the Colorado River, providing for storage and for the delivery of the stored waters thereof for reclamation of public lands and other beneficial uses exclusively within the United States, and for the generation of electrical energy...
Page 983 - Hereafter, whenever the Secretary of War determines upon recommendation by the Secretary of the Interior that any dam and reservoir project operated under the direction of the Secretary of War may be utilized for irrigation purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain, under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary...
Page 1096 - Idaho be authorized and he is hereby directed to immediately forward certified copies of this memorial to the speaker of the house and to the president of the senate...
Page 35 - ... money will be determined completely by the facts. That is, if the volume of mail did increase to an extent that you could not handle it, then you would automatically be justified in making expenditures to handle it ; is that right ? Mr. SUMMERFIELD. If this were corrected as we suggest, we would go to the Bureau of the Budget and the Bureau of the Budget would go to the Congress, and we would ask for the Senator JOHNSTON. I can see if you are basing that on volume you have a justification for...
Page 1462 - Without objection it is so ordered. (The matter referred to is as follows:) VETERANS REGULATION No.
Page 1076 - ... holding court, but may return to his home and charge travel for going anew to attend the term at the day to which it is adjourned. His right to charge travel for going to each special court or special term is, if possible, still clearer, and is scarcely contested." Opinion of the Court. In that case the agreed statement of facts on which the case was submitted to the judgment of the Circuit Court showed only that the sum in dispute was "charged for travel on days when said courts were held by...
Page 1227 - Secretary shall certify to the Congress that an adequate soil survey and land classification has been made and that the lands to be irrigated are susceptible to the production of agricultural crops by means of irrigation...
Page 1409 - Stat. 887), 1946 (60 Stat. 641), and 1950 (64 Stat. 170). The general comprehensive plan for the Missouri River Basin Project was presented in Senate Document 191 and House Document 475, as revised and coordinated by Senate Document 247 (78th Congress). The attached...
Page 983 - Act; and, within the limits of the water users' repayment ability such report may be predicated on the allocation to irrigation of an appropriate portion of the cost of structures and facilities used for irrigation and other purposes. Dams and...

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