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Page 1562 - Congress; and be it further Resolved, That certified copies of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, and to the Delegate to Congress from Hawaii.
Page 1898 - MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE: My name is Burrell B. Fair, I live in West Memphis, Arkansas and I am Chief Engineer of the St.
Page 1519 - ... areas, they would not have had this loss if they had only followed the advice of the Army Engineers. Some of these projects were authorized back in 1956 and 1958 as I remember. After I made my statement on the Senate floor indicating that there was lack of cooperation on the part of local interests in a good many areas and a lot- of the damage could have been avoided in the event that there had been the proper local cooperation. I sympathized with you as best I could. That is all I could do....
Page 1896 - River was bankfull throughout most of its length with the annual spring runoff from the Ohio River and its tributaries. None of our protected areas will suffer any damage or inconvenience. Without the system of protection which we have there would be great damage, since the water has been against our levee system in many places for a considerable period of time this spring. It might be of interest to the committee to know that the volume of water at the crest of the flood in the St. Paul-Minneapolis...
Page 1763 - The Joint Executive Committee for the Improvement and Development of the Philadelphia Port...
Page 1803 - Three major railroads, having two bridges across the Mississippi River, traverse the area and will be benefited by the project. In addition, two Federal highways and one State highway are afforded protection by the project. The nearby towns depend chiefly upon agricultural trade for their existence. Flood damages have occurred on the average of about once each year.
Page 2129 - That the City of Stockton does hereby support the appropriation by the Congress of the United States of funds for fiscal year...
Page 1919 - State or local interests give reasonable assurances, and there is reasonable evidence, that such demands for the use of such storage will be made within a period of time which will permit paying out the costs allocated to water supply within the life of the project".
Page 1903 - This amount adjusted to 1979 dollars represents expenditures in excess of $5.3 billion. Nearly one-half of the potential flooded area of the Lower Mississippi River Valley lies in Louisiana. Local expenditures for flood control have increased with the growth of the valley. This record not only meets, but exceeds any National Water Policy local participation requirements ever put into practice.
Page 1716 - No. 33, 85th Congress, 1st Session, and previous reports, with a view to determining if the existing project should be modified in any way at this time, with particular reference to providing increased channel and basin depths and widths, for flaring approaches to the turning basins, and for further channel extensions, including a shallow draft 'branch channel from Corpus Christ! Bay into Nueces Bay. and for an exchange of water between the Nueces River and the Viola Turning Basin.