session, entitled "A bill to permit construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products in the District of Columbia, which you referred to them for consideration and report. Very sincerely yours, BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Hon. ARTHUR CAPPER, WASHINGTON, February 6, 1931. Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate. MY DEAR SENATOR CAPPER: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have no objection to the enactment of the attached draft of a bill to authorize the commissioners to grant permission to the Griffith-Consumers Co. to construct, maintain, and use not more than 10 pipe lines for the carriage of petroleum and petroleum products from a point or points within square 661 in and through R Street; due east to Half Street east, and thence north on Half Street east to a point opposite lots 12 or 13 of square east of square 708, thence through said lots or any other lots in the said square which may hereafter be acquired by the Griffith-Consumers Co. to the pierhead line of the Anacostia River. The proposed bill eliminates the undesirable features of H. R. 10778, Seventyfirst Congress, second session, on which the commissioners reported unfavorably on July 1, 1930. Very truly yours, BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Hon. ARTHUR Capper, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC PARKS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Washington, D. C., February 9, 1931. Chairman Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate. MY DEAR SENATOR CAPPER: I have carefully considered the attached bill which, if passed, would authorize the construction, maintenance, and use of certain pipe lines for petroleum and petroleum products by granting permission to the Griffith Consumers Co., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, to lay down, construct, maintain, and use pipe lines from a point within square 661 in the city of Washington to a point opposite lots 12 and 13 in square east of square 708 (through which said lots the Griffith Consumers Co. now has an easement to run pipe lines), thence through certain streets or any lots in said square east of square 708 which may hereafter be acquired by the Griffith Consumers Co., or over which it may secure an easement to the pierhead line of the Anacostia River. In accordance with certain records and other documentary evidence in this office square east of square 708 is now owned and in title of the United States. The office of the United States Attorney General is at present endeavoring to establish and make clear the title of the United States in suits in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against all persons and corporations, or others, who may have, or pretend to have, any right, title, claim, or interest adverse to the complete title of the United States in and to any part or parcel of the land or water in the District of Columbia in, under, and adjacent to the Potomac River, the Anacostia River, or Eastern Branch, and Rock Creek, including the shores and submerged or partly submerged land, as well as the beds of said waterways, and also the upland immediately adjacent thereto, including made lands, flats, and marshlands. Congress passed an act April 27, 1912, known and described as Act H. R. 22642, Publie No. 138. This act provides for protection of the interests of the United States in lands as described above. I believe that this bill, which will be presented to your committee to-day, will protect the interests of the United States Government in these lands, provided that the wording in section 3 of the bill is used. Respectfully yours, U. S. GRANT 3D, Director. SENATE 72D CONGRESS 1st Session } { REPORT No. 255 SALE OF WATER TO SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES BY THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEBRUARY 17, 1932.-Ordered to be printed Mr. TYDINGS, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 3222] The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3222) to amend an act approved March 3, 1917, known as the District of Columbia appropriation act for the year ending June 30, 1918, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon, and recommends that the bill do pass. The bill seeks to amend a provision in the appropriation act above referred to, which authorized the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to supply water to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission to a maximum of 3,000,000 gallons daily at four designated points. This commission was incorporated by the General Assembly of Maryland in 1918 and has jurisdiction over water supply, sewerage, and similar sanitary problems in which the District of Columbia and the neighboring Maryland communities have a common interest. It has been found that the existing law on the suburban water supply is too inflexible to permit of the sale of water to new residential sections in near-by Maryland which are distant from the four points designated in the law. The bill authorizes the connection of District and Maryland water mains at points mutually agreed upon. Any agreement for such connection, the bill stipulates, shall provide that the meters on each connection shall be located in the District, under the jurisdiction of the commissioners; that the rates for the supply of water shall be based on actual cost of delivery, plus 4 per cent per annum interest and a suitable allowance for depreciation; that payments for water shall be made through the District collector of taxes, and deposited in the United States Treasury as are local water rents; and that the amount of water furnished the sanitary commission shall at no time. SR-72-1-VOL 1-28 exceed the amount that can be spared "without jeopardizing the interests of the United States or of the District of Columbia." The committee feels the bill provides a desirable flexibility, and safeguards the interests of the United States and the District of Columbia. There are appended hereto, as part of this report, letters from the District Commissioners and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission recommending the enactment of the bill. No objection to the bill has come to the knowledge of the committee. COMMISSIONERS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, February 16, 1932. Hon. ARTHUR CAPPER, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR SENATOR CAPPER: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to inform you that they have no objection to the enactment of S. 3222, Seventy-second Congress, first session, entitled "A bill to amend an act approved March 3, 1917, known as the District of Columbia appropriation act for the year ending June 30, 1918," which you referred to them for their consideration and report. The interests of the water users of the District of Columbia are amply protected by the provision in lines 20 to 24, inclusive, on page 3 of the bill. Very sincerely yours, L. H. REICHELDERFER, President. WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION, Hon. ARTHUR CAPPER, MY DEAR SENATOR: At the suggestion of Senator Tydings, I am writing you concerning the necessity for, or the advisability of, the passage of Senate bill 3222, introduced by Senator Tydings, and referred to the District Committee. The District of Columbia appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, contained a provision authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to supply water to this commission to a maximum of 3,000,000 gallons daily at four designated points. I am sending you herewith a copy of the original bill as it was written into the District appropriation bill. At the time of the passage of this bill, the demand on the District of Columbia was fully equal to its then capacity of the supply plant, and there was no surplus for the Maryland communities, and, therefore, no connections were asked for or given until the new Delacarlia system was put into operation. There is now an ample supply for both communities, and connections-largely for emergency purposes have been made at three points between the District and Maryland systems. These connections proved of the utmost value to the Maryland communities during the drought of 1930, and for several months practically all of our water supply, amounting to about 3,000,000 gallons daily, was taken from the District of Columbia. There have grown up around the District of Columbia boundary line, on the Maryland side, a number of small communities of from 6 to 20 houses that are in immediate need of public water supply, and which can not be served from the Maryland system without a great expense to us at this time. It is our plan to arrange with the District of Columbia for connections to these communities until such time as our system can reach them. It is also desired that we be allowed one or two connections at places other than those mentioned in the original bill in order to strengthen our system in an emergency. The limitation of 3,000,000 gallons is omitted, because in the event of a breakdown of our supply system, which now has a maximum of about 5,000,000 gallons, we may have to ask the District of Columbia to give us the amount of the full consumption of the Maryland area for a short while, and the limitation might possibly lead to a very serious situation with us. The present bill puts the amount allowed us in the discretion of the District Commissioners. The District Commissioners have expressed their approval of this bill. Yours very truly, T. HOWARD DUCKETT, Chairman. (Extract from the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1917, known as the District of Columbia appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1918] For the protection of the health of the residents of the District of Columbia and the employees of the United States Government residing in Maryland near the District of Columbia boundary the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, upon the request of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, a body corporate, established by chapter three hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and sixteen of the State of Maryland, or upon the request of its legally appointed successor, are hereby authorized to deliver water from the watersupply system of the District of Columbia to said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its successor for distribution to territory in Maryland within the Washington suburban sanitary district as designated in the aforesaid act, and to connect District of Columbia water mains with water mains in the State of Maryland at the following points, namely, in the vicinity of Chevy Chase Circle, in the vicinity of the intersection of Georgia and Eastern Avenues, in the vicinity of the intersection of Rhode Island and Eastern Avenues, and in the vicinity of the intersection of the Anacostia Road and Eastern Avenue, under the conditions hereinafter named, namely: That before such connections shall be made the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its legally appointed successor shall secure authority from the Legislature of the State of Maryland to enter into an agreement with the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia outlining the conditions under which the service is to be rendered. The agreement between the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its legally appointed successor shall provide, among other things: First. That the meters on each of said connections shall be located within the District of Columbia and shall remain under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Second. The rates at which water will be furnished, said rates to be based on the actual cost to the United States and the District of Columbia of delivering water to the points designated above, including an interest charge at four per centum per annum and a suitable allowance for depreciation. Third. That payments for water so furnished shall be made through the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia at such times as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may direct, said payments to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as other water rents now collected in the District of Columbia are deposited. Fourth. That at no time shall the amount of water furnished the said Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission or its successors exceed the amount that can be spared without jeopardizing the interests of the United States or of the District of Columbia, and in no event shall it exceed in amount three million gallons per day, measurement thereof to be made under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Fifth. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have at all times the right to investigate the distribution system in Maryland, and if, in their opinion, there is a wastage of water they shall have the right to curtail the supply to said sanitary district to the amount of such wastage. |