Reed, W. E., Huntington, W. Va. Ribicoff, Hon. A. A., Member of Congress Selden, John E., president, Bradford district, Pennsylvania Oil Pro- 112 Seymour, Paul E., president, District 2, United Electrical Radio and Thompson, Chester, president, American Waterway Operators, Inc. Thompson, Dr. O. W., president, Big Sandy Valley Association.... Torbert, E. N., Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.. Trivette, Charles F., Virgie, Ky. Tyler, Carroll L., manager, Santa Fe operations office, Atomic Energy FLOOD CONTROL-RIVERS AND HARBORS TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1949 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE FOR FLOOD CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT OF Also present: Senators Sparkman, Stennis, and Kerr. The House Public Works Committee has been holding hearings for quite some time on a general authorization bill for rivers and harbors and flood-control projects. It reported out a bill (H. R. 5472) on July 6. This bill is still pending in the House; but, in view of the lateness in the session, the Subcommittee on Flood Control and Improvement of Rivers and Harbors of the Senate Public Works Committee has decided to proceed with hearings on this bill before the House takes final action on it in order to expedite its passage at this session of Congress. If we should wait until the House finally passes the measure, assuming it does act on it at this session, and then undertake to hold hearings, they would probably extend until the end of the session or so near the end of it that it would be impossible to get action on the bill in the Senate. (H. R. 5472 reads as follows:) [H. R. 5472, 81st Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-RIVERS AND HARBORS SEC. 101. That the following works of improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, flood control, and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports hereinafter designated: Provided, That the provisions of section 1 of the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945 (Public, Numbered 14, Seventyninth Congress, first session), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this title; and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full: Scarboro River, Maine, between Prouts Neck and Pine Point; House Document Numbered 69, Eighty-first Congress; 1 Wood Island Harbor, Maine, and the Pool at Biddeford; House Document Numbered 49, Eighty-first Congress; Winthrop Beach, Massachusetts, Beach Erosion Control; House Document Numbered 764, Eightieth Congress; Mystic River, Massachusetts; House Document Numbered 645, Eightieth Congress; Mattapoisett Harbor, Massachusetts; House Document Numbered 664, Eightieth Congress; Stonington Harbor, Connecticut; House Document Numbered 667, Eightieth Congress; Eightmile River, Connecticut; House Document Numbered 666, Eightieth Congress; Fire Island, Inlet, New York; House Document Numbered 762, Eightieth Congress; East Chester Creek (Hutchinson River), New York; House Document Numbered 749, Eightieth Congress; Jamaica Bay, New York; House Document Numbered 665, Eightieth Congress: Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey; House Document Numbered 233, Eighty-first Congress; Sandy Hook Bay at Leonardo, New Jersey; House Document Numbered 108, Eighty-first Congress; Lake Ogleton and Walnut Lake, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; House Document Numbered 712, Eightieth Congress; Hellens Creek, Calvert County, Maryland; House Document Numbered 663, Eightieth Congress; Governors Run, Calvert County, Maryland; House Document Numbered 670, Eightieth Congress; Saint Patricks Creek, Maryland; House Document Numbered 671, Eightieth Congress; Potomac River and tributaries at and below Washington, District of Columbia; Elimination of Waterchestnut; House Document Numbered 113, Eighty-first Congress; Kings Creek, Northampton County, Virginia; House Document Numbered 193, Eighty-first Congress; Rappahannock River at Bowlers Wharf, Essex County, Virginia; House Document Numbered 109, Eighty-first Congress; James River, Virginia; House Document Numbered 191, Eighty-first Congress; Inland Waterway in the vicinity of Fairfield, North Carolina; House Document Numbered 723, Eightieth Congress; Far Creek, North Carolina; House Document Numbered 770, Eightieth Congress; Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina-Harbor Improvement at Marshallberg; House Document Numbered 68, Eighty-first Congress; Taylors Creek, North Carolina; House Document Numbered 111, Eighty-first Congress; Cape Fear River at and below Wilmington, North Carolina; House Document Numbered 87, Eighty-first Congress; Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina; Senate Document Numbered 6, Eighty-first Congress; Brunswick Harbor, Georgia; House Document Numbered 110, Eighty-first Congress; Saint Marys River, Georgia and Florida, and North River, Georgia; House Document Numbered 680, Eightieth Congress; Fernandina Harbor, Florida; House Document Numbered 662, Eightieth Congress; Saint Augustine Harbor and vicinity, Florida; House Document Numbered 133, Eighty-first Congress; Palm Beach, Florida, Beach Erosion Control; House Document Numbered 722, Eightieth Congress: Provided, condition 2 recommended in the report shall not be applicable; Lake Worth Inlet, Florida; House Document Numbered 704, Eightieth Congress; Charlotte Harbor, Florida; House Document Numbered 186, Eighty-first Congress; Saint Petersburg Harbor, Florida; House Document Numbered 70, Eighty-first Congress; Horseshoe Cove, Florida; House Document Numbered 106, Eighty-first Congress; La Grange Bayou, Florida; House Document Numbered 190, Eighty-first Congress; Fly Creek, Fairhope, Alabama; House Document Numbered 194, Eighty-first Congress; Pascagoula Harbor, Dog River Cut-off, Mississippi; House Document Numbered 188, Eighty-first Congress; Arkansas River and tributaries, Arkansas and Oklahoma; House Document Numbered 758, Seventy-ninth Congress, for the further partial accomplishment of the approved plan there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to all sums previously authorized, $70,000,000; Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas, vicinity of Port Arthur Bridge; House Document Numbered 174, Eighty-first Congress; Galveston Harbor and Channel, Texas (sea wall); House Document Numbered 173, Eighty-first Congress; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in South Galveston Bay, Texas; House Document Numbered 196, Eighty-first Congress; Chocolate and Bastrop Bayous, Texas; House Document Numbered 768, Eightieth Congress; Freeport Harbor, Texas; House Document Numbered 195, Eighty-first Con gress; Little Bay, Texas; House Document Numbered 114, Eighty-first Congress; Trinity River at Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas; House Document Numbered 242, Eighty-first Congress. Brazos Island Harbor, Texas; House Document Numbered 192, Eighty-first Congress; Mississippi River at Hannibal, Missouri; House Document Numbered 67, Eighty first Congress; Mississippi River at Davenport, Iowa; House Document Numbered 642, Eightieth Congress; Mississippi River at Muscatine, Iowa; House Document Numbered 733, Eightieth Congress; Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa; Senate Document Numbered 197, Eightieth Congress; Mississippi River at Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin; House Document Numbered 71, Eighty-first Congress; Mississippi River at Alma, Wisconsin; House Document Numbered 66, Eightyfirst Congress; Hudson Harbor, Saint Croix River, Wisconsin; House Document Numbered 184, Eighty-first Congress; Grand Marais Harbor, Minnesota; House Document Numbered 187, Eightyfirst Congress; Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin; House Document Numbered 750, Eightieth Congress; Manistique Harbor, Michigan; House Document Numbered 721, Eightieth Congress; Grand Marais Harbor, Michigan; House Document Numbered 751, Eightieth Congress; Detroit River, Michigan, Trenton Channel; Senate Document Numbered 30, Eighty-first Congress; Toledo Harbor, Ohio; House Document Numbered 189, Eighty-first Congress; Redwood City Harbor (Redwood Creek), California; House Document Numment Numbered 104, Eighty-first Congress; San Joaquin River and Stockton Channel, California; House Document Numbered 752, Eightieth Congress; Westport Slough, Oregon; House Document Numbered 134, Eighty-first Congress; Columbia Slough, Oregon, in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers dated December 28, 1948; Christiansted Harbor, Saint Croix, Virgin Islands; House Document Numbered 771, Eightieth Congress. SEC. 102. Section 6 of the Act of July 3, 1930 (33 U. S. C. 569a), is hereby amended to read as follows: The Chief of Engineers is authorized to procure the temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof in connection with civil functions of the Corps of Engineers without regard to the Classification Act as amended: Provided, That individuals so engaged shall not be paid in excess of $100 per day for their services. |