Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government: Water Resources and Power Report. Hearings Before a Special Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 3036 pages |
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40-foot channel Army engineers authorized Bear Creek Reservoir BECTON believe benefits Chairman Colonel HILL Colonel RENSHAW committee Congress construction cooperatives Corps of Engineers cost damage dams Delaware Basin Delaware River Delaware River Basin economic estimated fact Fairless Federal Government Federal power feel flood control funds going Hoover Commission report Hurricane Diane Hurricane Hazel hurricanes hydroelectric power INCODEL industrial interest Jersey JONES kilowatt-hours kilowatts Lackawanna River LIPSCOMB McLEAN ment million Mount Pocono municipalities navigation Neuse River NICHOLSON North Carolina operation Pennsylvania percent Philadelphia PITKIN plant Pocono present private utilities problem rates recommendations recreation reservoirs Resources and Power responsibility REUSS rural electric statement stream subcommittee task force task-force report taxes Thank thing tion Trenton tributaries United States Steel upper Delaware Valley ware River water resources water supply watershed waterways WENNER WINKELSPECHT York
Popular passages
Page 255 - ... to cooperate with the several States and the duly authorized officials thereof; and to encourage fair wages and equitable working conditions; — all to the end of developing, coordinating, and preserving a national transportation system by water, highway, and rail, as well as other means, adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, of the Postal Service, and of the national defense.
Page 715 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 297 - It is hereby declared that because of the conditions prevailing in this State the general welfare requires that the water resources of the State be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable...
Page 237 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote economy, efficiency, and improved service in the transaction of the public business...
Page 254 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 475 - States in collecting debts from bankrupt, insolvent, or decedents' estates; to determine the character of and the necessity for its obligations and expenditures, and the manner in which they shall be incurred, allowed, and paid...
Page 557 - That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about, for example, the Mad River, or the Naugatuck River, which are not navigable.
Page 393 - Mr. Chairman, if you have any questions I will be glad to try to answer them, or Mr.
Page 762 - And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the State, as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 255 - Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each ; to promote safe, adequate, economical, and efficient service and foster sound economic conditions in transportation and among the several carriers...