 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1948 - 1602 pages
...proper activity of the Federal Government, in cooperation with the States and local communities, and that the Federal Government should improve or participate...improvement of navigable waters or their tributaries for floodcontrol purposes, if such projects are economically justified and if the lives and social... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation - 1945 - 722 pages
...participate in improvement of navigable waters and their tributaries for flood-control purposes where the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue, are in excess of the estimated costs. Ihis was the inauguration by Congress of the present-day flood control program. Obviously, until these... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1945 - 1000 pages
...waters or their tributaries for flood-control purposes, if such projects are economically justified and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. Those acts also specified the local cooperation required for the projects authorized therein. These... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1946 - 268 pages
...Senator OVERTON. Yes. Colonel FERINGA. This is the Flood Control Act of June 22, 1936, section 1 : That the Federal Government should improve or participate...whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated cost ; and, if the lives and social security of people "are otherwise adversely affected. Senator ROBERTSON.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - 1946 - 722 pages
...including watersheds thereof, for floodcontrol purposes, are in the interest of the general welfare; that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters of their tributaries, including watersheds thereof for flood-control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control - 1946 - 838 pages
...including watersheds thereof, for floodcontrol purposes, are in the interest of the general welfare; that the Federal Government should improve or participate in the improvement of navigable waters of their tributaries, including watersheds thereof for flood-control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1946 - 262 pages
...otherwise adversely affected. Senator ROBERTSON. What was that last line? Colonel FERINGA (reading) : If the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimateil cost and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. Senator... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1946 - 1306 pages
...waters or their tributaries for flood-control purposes, if such projects are economically justified and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. Those acts also specified the local cooperation required for the projects authorized therein. These... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1947 - 924 pages
...control should be a proper activity of the Federal Government, and that the United States should "improve navigable waters or their tributaries, including watersheds...security of people are otherwise adversely affected." In accordance with the provisions of the Omnibus Flood Control Act of 1936 and subsequent legislation,... | |
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... if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs, and if the lives and social security of people are otherwise adversely affected. 
