Study of Civil Works: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Study Civil Works of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, Second Session. March 27, 28, 31, and April 2, 3, 29, 1952, Volumes 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952 - 693 pages |
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acres allocated to power amount ANGELL annual appropriation Army engineers basis benefits BUCHANAN Bureau of Reclamation carry Chairman Chief of Engineers CHORPENING CLAPP Columbia River committee Congress construction coordinated Corps of Engineers cost allocation CURRAN dams Department of Agriculture district DONDERO DYKES economic estimated farm farmers Federal Government Federal Power Commission Flood Control Act going Hells Canyon Dam hydroelectric improvement included installation interest Interior irrigation JONES Kansas Kansas River land MACK ment MILLER million Missouri Basin Missouri River multiple-purpose navigation operation PAYTON percent PICK Pick-Sloan plan planning procedure proposed purposes question rates recommendations reservoir responsibility river and harbor River Basin runoff Salt-Wahoo SCHEIDEN HELM Secretary BRANNAN Soil Conservation Service specific statement storage stream structures studies subcommittee survey Tennessee River Tennessee Valley Authority tion tributary Tuttle Creek United Washita water resources watershed
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Page 452 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway...
Page 452 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of water-power development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...
Page 525 - The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which...
Page 525 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Page 525 - ... affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions and with the approval, as hereinafter provided, of a joint commission, to be known as the International Joint Commission.
Page 530 - Tennessee Valley Authority, and the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (United States and Mexico...
Page 441 - ... conform to such rules and regulations as the commission may from time to time prescribe for the protection of life, health, and property.
Page 531 - Senate or otherwise. (c) That nothing contained in the treaty or protocol shall be construed as authorizing the Secretary of State of the United States, the Commissioner of the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission...
Page 400 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 100 - And the heads of the several departments of the Government may, in their discretion, and shall upon the request of the Secretary of War, detail representatives from their respective departments to assist the Engineers of the Army in the study and examination of such watersheds, to the end that duplication of work may be avoided and the various services of the Government economically co-ordinated therein...