Rivers and Harbors Bill: Hearings, Seventy-ninth Congress

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 - Harbors - 310 pages

Contents

• Absecon Inlet N J 45: 5
• Columbia River at The Dalles Oreg 233: 6
• Adams Bayou Sabine River Tex Printed separately: 25
• New Haven Harbor Conn__: 34
• Congaree River S C___ 293: 36
• Association of American Railroads spokesman 132: 41
• Pig Sioux River S Dak_: 49
• Indiana Harbor and Canal Ind Printed separately: 53
• Seminole County Fla Chamber of Commerce telegram_ 146: 66
• Izac Hon Ed V statement 259: 74
• Bland Hon S O statement_ 89: 85
• New Jersey intracoastal waterway Cape May Canal 264: 90
• Kendall John C statement__ 214: 97
• Lake Carriers Association spokesman__: 114
• Norblad Hon Walter statement 231: 122
• Siuslaw River Duncan slough Oregon 309: 132
• Brazos River Mill Creek Tex 80: 146
• Chalkley Harry G statement: 160
• Lake Charles deep water channel Louisiana__: 162
• Traffic port of Lake Charles La consolidated statement_: 170
• Chaney H F letter_ 221: 174
• Pace Hon Stephen statement_ 246: 177
• Vessels using Port of Lake Charles La list__ 170: 195
• Lake Pepin Minn__: 196
• Lansing Harbor Iowa 190: 208
• Coos Bay Lumber Co letter: 209
• Coos Bay Oreg waterborne shipments lists of: 215
• Port Everglades Fla___ 119: 218
• Warne William E statement 305: 220
• Cleveland Harbor Ohio Printed separately: 228
• Flint River Ga____: 239
• Wickford Harbor R I__ 46: 252
• Savannah Harbor Ga 104: 262
• Logan J E telegrams 301 302: 270
• Florida Railroad Commission telegram 147: 272
• III: 273
• Gary Hon J Vaughan statement__ 90: 279
• Green A H statement: 290
• Gut Mayor H James telegram_ 146: 301
• Luce Hon Clare Boothe statement by secretary of 29: 302
• Schuylkill River Pa culm removal 95: 309
• Mattaponi River Va__ 88: 310

Popular passages

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