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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... present administrative expense authorization to 4 percent . Area FISCAL YEAR 1954 Texas - Orange and Newton Counties . Flood . Alaska .. Severe hardship . Georgia .. Tornado New Hampshire . Forest fire .. Mississippi .. Florida Georgia ...
... present administrative expense authorization to 4 percent . Area FISCAL YEAR 1954 Texas - Orange and Newton Counties . Flood . Alaska .. Severe hardship . Georgia .. Tornado New Hampshire . Forest fire .. Mississippi .. Florida Georgia ...
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... present that can justify Civil Defense as much as this service of Civil Defense in peacetime , in meeting disasters . And I can tell you that the Senators and Congressmen in Connecticut and Massachusetts and the other States affected up ...
... present that can justify Civil Defense as much as this service of Civil Defense in peacetime , in meeting disasters . And I can tell you that the Senators and Congressmen in Connecticut and Massachusetts and the other States affected up ...
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... present this morning and part of this afternoon . It was due to my presence at another appropriations subcommittee meeting . I want to take this opportunity , Mr. Peterson , to tip my hat to you and to your staff and to the regional ...
... present this morning and part of this afternoon . It was due to my presence at another appropriations subcommittee meeting . I want to take this opportunity , Mr. Peterson , to tip my hat to you and to your staff and to the regional ...
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... present time a little over 15,000 policies for about $ 125 million insurance . Mr. THOMAS . What is the maximum amount for each one of the policies ? Mr. POISSANT . The maximum you can get is $ 10,000 but they average about $ 8,000 . Mr ...
... present time a little over 15,000 policies for about $ 125 million insurance . Mr. THOMAS . What is the maximum amount for each one of the policies ? Mr. POISSANT . The maximum you can get is $ 10,000 but they average about $ 8,000 . Mr ...
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... present time , with 15,000 policies , $ 100 a year we will say , that would be a million and a half dollars ; wouldn't it ? A million and a half at the present time . Of course , it is increas- ing . Mr. THOMAS . Will it increase as ...
... present time , with 15,000 policies , $ 100 a year we will say , that would be a million and a half dollars ; wouldn't it ? A million and a half at the present time . Of course , it is increas- ing . Mr. THOMAS . Will it increase as ...
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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.
Page 187 - Chairman and distinguished members of the committee, I am very grateful for the opportunity to appear before you again to report on the state of the US Navy.
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...