Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1956: Hearings Before Subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 194 pages |
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... complete and exhaustive review of flood control plans for rivers in the Northeast . The purpose of this review will be to determine in the light of the 1955 floods , and predicated upon sound basin planning , what addi- tional projects ...
... complete and exhaustive review of flood control plans for rivers in the Northeast . The purpose of this review will be to determine in the light of the 1955 floods , and predicated upon sound basin planning , what addi- tional projects ...
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... complete request Advance engineering and design : Thomaston Reservoir , Conn . East Brimfield Reservoir , Mass . Hodges Village Reservoir , Mass . Worcester , Mass . Endicott , Johnson City , and Vestal , N. Y 1.2 to 1 $ 16 , 000 , 000 ...
... complete request Advance engineering and design : Thomaston Reservoir , Conn . East Brimfield Reservoir , Mass . Hodges Village Reservoir , Mass . Worcester , Mass . Endicott , Johnson City , and Vestal , N. Y 1.2 to 1 $ 16 , 000 , 000 ...
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... completing more rapidly some of the reservoirs in the New England area . That is No. 2. Is that right ? General STURGIS . Yes , sir . Mr. BOLAND . The reason we are taking this matter up now and the reason you bring it before this ...
... completing more rapidly some of the reservoirs in the New England area . That is No. 2. Is that right ? General STURGIS . Yes , sir . Mr. BOLAND . The reason we are taking this matter up now and the reason you bring it before this ...
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... complete the flood - control program for all of New England ? Colonel PENNEY . That is right . General STURGIS . That is the estimated cost at the present time , sir , of the originally authorized program . 1956 BUDGET REQUESTS TO ...
... complete the flood - control program for all of New England ? Colonel PENNEY . That is right . General STURGIS . That is the estimated cost at the present time , sir , of the originally authorized program . 1956 BUDGET REQUESTS TO ...
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... complete . Because of the immediate need for recommendations in the most urgent areas , a number of interim reports on the most critical areas are contemplated , under the authority of this northeast flood study . These individual ...
... complete . Because of the immediate need for recommendations in the most urgent areas , a number of interim reports on the most critical areas are contemplated , under the authority of this northeast flood study . These individual ...
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acre-feet additional Allentown Army engineers August 1955 flood Bear Creek Reservoir benefit-cost ratio benefit-to-cost ratio benefits Bethlehem Blackstone River BOLAND budget Buffumville Chairman city of Woonsocket Civil Defense Colonel PENNEY Colonel RENSHAW committee complete after fiscal CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Conn Connecticut River Basin construction Corps of Engineers disaster district downstream Dyberry East Barre East Brimfield ELLISON Engineering and design England estimated cost estimated Federal cost fiscal year 1956 FLEMING Flood Control Act flood damages funds Governor PETERSON Hodges Village hurricane included increase industrial initiate ITSCHNER Lackawanna River Lackawaxen River Lehigh River located MARSHALL Mass Massachusetts miles million North Hartland North Springfield operation Otter Brook percent POISSANT preconstruction planning project was authorized Prompton Public Law 875 Quinebaug River rainfall record relocation spillway statement storm STURGIS supplemental appropriation TABER Thames River Basin Thomaston Thomaston Reservoir tion total estimate town Vermont Winooski River Woonsocket Worcester
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Page 143 - ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.
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Page 144 - Congress to provide an orderly and continuing means of assistance by the Federal Government to States and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate suffering and damage resulting from major disasters, to repair essential public facilities in major disasters, and to foster the development of such State and local organizations and plans to cope with major disasters as may be necessary.
Page 5 - Act, to provide an orderly and continuing means of assistance by the Federal Government to State and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to alleviate the suffering and damage which result...
Page 143 - President, to provide assistance by — (1) utilizing or lending, with or without compensation therefor, to States and local governments, their equipment, supplies, facilities, personnel, and other resources...
Page 12 - In providing such assistance hereunder, Federal agencies shall cooperate to the fullest extent possible with each other and with States and local governments, relief agencies, and the American National Red Cross, but nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to limit or in any way affect the responsibilities of the American National Red Cross under the Act approved January 5, 1905...
Page 57 - The principal purposes of this compact are : (a) to promote interstate comity among and between the signatory states; (b) to assure adequate storage capacity for impounding the waters of the Connecticut River and its tributaries for the protection of life and property from floods; (c) to provide a joint or common agency through which the signatory states, while promoting, protecting and preserving to each the local interest and sovereignty of the respective signatory states, may more effectively...
Page 35 - Government; and (d) by performing on public or private lands protective and other work essential for the preservation of life and property, clearing debris and wreckage, making emergency repairs to and temporary replacements of public facilities of local governments damaged or destroyed in such major disaster...
Page 143 - States and local governments their equipment, supplies, facilities', personnel, and other resources, other than the extension of credit under the authority of any Act; (b) by distributing, through the American National Red Cross or otherwise, medicine, food, and other consumable supplies; (c) by donating or lending equipment and supplies, determined under then existing law to be surplus to the needs and responsibilities of the Federal Government...
Page 187 - Mr. Donohue. STATEMENT OF HON. HAROLD D. DONOHUE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Mr. DONOHUE. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee...