Rivers and Harbors: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6407, an Act Authorizing the Construction, Repair and Preservation of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors, and for Other Purposes. June 10-14, 1946Considers (79) H.R. 6407. |
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Page 440 - District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufactured products thereof, manufactured, mined, or produced by it, or under its authority, or which it may own in whole or in part, or in which it may have any interest, direct or indirect, except such articles
Page 87 - Resolved by the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby, requested to review the reports on the Red River, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana; the
Page 32 - response to the following resolution adopted March 20, 1945: "Resolved by the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the report on
Page 440 - commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act, which is as follows: SEC. 1. (8) From and after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to transport from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, to any other State, Territory, or
Page 393 - to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each. Now,
Page 495 - pen stocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 440 - Postal Service, and of the national defense. All of the provisions of this Act shall be administered and enforced with a view to carrying out the above declaration of policy.
Page 490 - of waters arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in States lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, irrigation, mining or industrial purposes. That seems to be
Page 306 - in general accordance with the plans of the district engineer as shown on the accompanying drawings with such changes therein as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, at an estimated