Amending the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1224 ... October 3, 1975U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - 265 pages |
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100-year flood acre-feet acres agencies agricultural Altus appropriate ator DOMENICI banks BARLOW Broome County Buffalo River Bullpasture River Chairman channel modification Commission of Game committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Conservationist construction cost Creek Watershed Project cropland dams debris disaster downstream drainage emergency erosion estimated farm farmers Federal fish flood plain flood prevention flood protection floodwater retarding structures funds Game and Inland Gray County guidelines HAAS habitat Hurricane Agnes Hurricane Camille impound Inland Fisheries installation irrigation Lake Altus land landowners LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Little Luckiamute Luckiamute River Lugert-Altus McClellan Creek Watershed miles North Fork Oklahoma Paluxy River percent present problems QUESTION Rabon Creek recreation Red Deer Red Deer Creek Red River reduced repair reservoir RESPONSE result rip-rap River Watershed ROESLER runoff secondary benefits Section 216 sediment Senator BURDICK Soil Conservation Service sponsors stream channelization streambank Texas trout Virginia Commission Water Resources water supply wildlife
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Page 41 - The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized in his discretion to undertake such emergency measures for runoff retardation and soil-erosion prevention as may be needed to safeguard lives and property from floods and the products of erosion on any watershed whenever fire or any other natural element or force has caused a sudden impairment of that watershed...
Page 33 - Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you and the members of the Subcommittee on Water Resources for the opportunity to appear before you in support of this most worthwhile project.
Page 46 - Federal grant-in-aid programs authorized by the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (68 Stat. 666, as amended), and the eleven watersheds authorized by the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944, as amended and supplemented (58 Stat. 887...
Page 130 - I want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation and the appreciation of...
Page 47 - Act of 1969, the extent to which the project significantly affects the environment including consideration of: (1) The environmental impact of the proposed project; (2) Any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the...
Page 181 - Tex«s and the McClellan Creek Watershed Work Plan developed by the US Soil Conservation Service for application to the McClellan Creek Watershed in Carson, Gray, and Donley Counties, Tex. The State of Texas, and by the way, I wish my testimony to be recorded verbatim, also. The State of Texas appreciates...
Page 194 - Administration shall be approved unless the Committee has received an environmental impact statement relative to it.
Page 107 - Under this doctrine, diversion and application of water to a beneficial use constitute an appropriation, and entitle the appropriator to a continuing right to use the water, to the extent of the appropriation, but not beyond that reasonably required and actually used. The appropriator first in time is prior in right over others upon the same stream, and the right, when perfected by use, is deemed effective from the time the purpose to make the appropriation is definitely formed and actual work upon...
Page 227 - Verde County, Texas and will be carried out by three sponsoring local organizations, the Devils River Soil and Water Conservation District, Val Verde County Commissioners Court, and the City of Del Rio with assistance from the Soil Conservation Service and the United States Department of Agriculture. The San Felipe Creek Watershed Project proposes that adequate land treatment be accomplished on about 2,520 additional acres and that a single-purpose floodwater retarding structure with a storage capacity...
Page 251 - I believe you have a copy for the record. Senator BURDICK. It will be made a part of the record.