Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill: 1956, Hearings ... 84th Congress, 2d Session1956 - 194 pages |
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acre-feet additional Allentown Allotments to date 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 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 Federal Civil Defense fiscal year 1956 FLEMING Flood Control Act flood damages funds Governor PETERSON Hodges Village hurricane included 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 tion total estimate town Vermont Winooski River Woonsocket Worcester
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Page 145 - or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a Federal agency or an employee of the Government in carrying out the provisions of this
Page 145 - SEC. 3. In any major disaster, Federal agencies are hereby authorized when directed by the President to provide assistance (a) by utilizing or lending, with or without compensation therefor, to 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
Page 146 - in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. It is hereby ordered: A. Assignments: 1. The Secretary of Defense will be responsible for— A. Performing on public or private lands protective and other work essential for the preservation of life and property.
Page 146 - order 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 the major
Page 78 - It is a unit in the comprehensive plan for flood control in the Thames River Basin. To date, only one reservoir, Mansfield Hollow, has been constructed in the basin. Construction of the Hodges Village Reservoir is necessary to effect major reductions in flood damages at Webster and Dudley, Mass., and Thompson
Page 113 - Expenditure of these funds will allow initiation of construction of an important unit of the comprehensive plan, for flood control in the Connecticut River Basin. Fiscal year 1957.—The requested amount of $1,150,000 will be applied to: Road relocation $25, 100 Reservoir clearing 30, 000 Continuation of construction of dam 986, 400
Page 15 - SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS INSURANCE FUND, $750,000 This revolving fund, established pursuant to section 621 of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended (38 USC 821), receives premiums and pays claims on nonparticipating insurance policies issued to veterans with a service-connected disability which makes them ineligible for commercial insurance.
Page 14 - and payment of claims on insurance policies issued to veterans with a service-connected disability which makes them ineligible for commercial insurance. Obligational requirements accrue pursuant to contracts of insurance between the veteran policyholder and the United States Government and as such are not subject to administrative control.
Page 5 - 1. Provide a continuing means of assistance by the Federal Government to State and local governments to alleviate suffering and damage resulting from major natural disasters.
Page 37 - performing, on public and private lands, protective and other work essential for the preservation of life and property, debris and wreckage clearance, and emergency repair