Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress |
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29 feet 30 feet additional amount ANGELL annual authorized barge basin believe benefits Board boats bridge canal carrying CHAIRMAN channel Colonel FERINGA Columbia commerce committee completed Congress connection consideration construction Coos Bay cost damages deepening Department depth district dredging easements Engineers estimated existing facilities favor Federal feet 6 inches feet deep feet wide fishing flood follows Gulf hearing improvement inches increased indicating industrial interests Intracoastal Island Johns River Lake Lake Charles land load located lock lumber maintenance mean Mermentau miles Mississippi River navigation necessary operation Pass PETERSON of Georgia plant port present proposed railroads RANKIN recommended represent result Rivers and Harbors savings ships Sioux City South statement tankers terminal tons traffic transportation United vessels waterway
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Page 278 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 81 - Act shall be expended on the construction of any project until States, political subdivisions thereof, or other responsible local agencies have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the project...
Page 296 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 306 - ... arising in States lying wholly or partly west of the 98th 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 98th meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock water, Irrigation, mining or industrial purposes.
Page 306 - States (as defined in paragraph (a) of this section) , and to the Secretary of War, be subject to the same provisions regarding investigations, plans, proposals, and reports as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this section for the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War.
Page 278 - As used in this section the term ' commerce ' shall include the use of waterways by seasonal passenger craft, yachts, house boats, fishing boats, motor boats, and other similar water craft, whether or not operated for hire.'* Approved, February 10, 1932.
Page 280 - This, however, is subject to the conditions that local interests furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) provide without cost to the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the...
Page 39 - But there will be no meeting of the committee to-morrow. (Accordingly, at 12.30 orlock pm, a recess was taken until 2 o'clock pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS The committee resumed at 2 o'clock pm, at the expiration of the recess.
Page 246 - Local cooperation. This provides that local interests agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-ofway, and spoil disposal areas...
Page 226 - States of $378,000, subject to the provision that local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | Mar 13, 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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