Columbia Valley Administration: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4286 and H.R. 4287, Bills to Reorganize and Consolidate Certain Federal Functions and Thereby Secure Their More Effective Administration by Establishing a Columbia Valley Administration to Assist in the Achievement of Unified Water Control and Resource Conservation and Development on the Columbia River, Its Tributaries, and the Surrounding LandsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 807 pages |
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Page 14 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it. is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 15 - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
Page 475 - That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting or intending to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws of the respective States relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, or any vested right acquired therein.
Page 7 - Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof.
Page 342 - Diversion projects and urges their early authorization by the Congress of the United States; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the...
Page 12 - In the appointment of officials and the selection of employees for said Corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or officials, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency.
Page 121 - Society about this matter, certified copies of this resolution be sent to the Governor of the State of...
Page 315 - All members of the board shall be persons who profess a belief in the feasibility and wisdom of this Act.
Page 547 - Corporation shall also contribute to the employees' compensation fund, on the basis of annual billings as determined by the Secretary of Labor, for the benefit payments made from such fund on account of the Corporation's employees.
Page 24 - The payments herein authorized are in lieu of taxation, and the Corporation, its property, franchises and income, are hereby expressly exempted from taxation in any manner or form by any State, county, municipality, or any subdivision or district thereof.