Water Supply Policy and Programs in the Washington Metropolitan Region: Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Development and Regional Affairs of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session ... January 25, 30, and February 1, 1978

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Page 10 - August 1972, authorized the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake a national program of inspecting dams for the purpose of protecting human life and property.
Page 40 - Certain words in this act are defined for the purposes thereof as follows: Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; the word "person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person.
Page 39 - Major disaster" means any flood, drought, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the determination of the President, is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant disaster assistance by the Federal Government to supplement the efforts and available resources of...
Page 40 - Person" is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind. 6. "Refuse...
Page 39 - Local emergency" means the condition declared by the local governing body when in their judgment the threat or actual occurrence of a disaster is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant coordinated local government action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss, hardship or suffering threatened or caused thereby; provided, however, that a local emergency arising wholly or substantially out of a resource shortage may be declared only by the Governor, upon petition of the...
Page 39 - ... of such disaster. In exercising the powers vested under this section, under the supervision and control of the Governor, the political subdivision may proceed without regard to time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law (except mandatory constitutional requirements) pertaining to the performance of public work, entering into contracts, incurring of obligations, employment of temporary workers, rental of equipment, purchase of supplies and materials, levying of taxes, and appropriation...
Page 109 - The subcommittee will come to order. This is the second in a series of hearings which this subcommittee intends to conduct on HR 13008.
Page 136 - Environmental Protection Agency, and the signatory bodies to the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin: District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Page 41 - Court may make any order which justice requires to protect a party or other person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense, including but not limited to one or more of the following : (1) That the particular method or procedure not be used.
Page 7 - ... tidewater portion of the Potomac fishery resources can be best achieved by a Commission comprised of representatives of both Maryland and Virginia, charged with the establishment and maintenance of a program to conserve and improve these resources, and "Whereas, at a meeting of the commissioners appointed by the Governors of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia, to- wit: Carlyle Barton, M.

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