...The federal government was authorized to participate in the construction of flood control projects if "the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated cost." This was a clear expression of the federal interest. This requirement of "economic justification"...

...Federal Government should improve . . . navigable waters ... for flood control purposes if the benefus to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs." Application of this ptinciple became widespread over the next two decades. In 1946 the Federal Interagency...

...(PL 104-303) Provisions Q Federal Government should participate in improvement(s) for flood control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs (Section 1,1 936 FCA). Cost Sharing Q Non-Federal interests must provide all LERRD uncontaminated with...

...analysis was introduced. The US Flood Control Act of 1936 stated that projects should be built only " if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs." While in principle this requirement is appropriate, no standard methods existed for doing economic...

...Benefit/Cost Method place the concept that certain public flood control projects should be undertaken "if benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs" [15, page 134]. Although this concept was originally applied only to flood control, over the years...

...government accepted the responsibility of undertaking flood control measures whenever and wherever the "benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the cost."16 In 1950, the subcommittee on Cost and Benefits of the InterAgency River Basin Committee published...

...difficult to market. Congress therefore adopted language in the Flood Control Act of 1 936 that said, "The Federal Government should improve or participate...security of people are otherwise adversely affected" (emphasis added).2 This created a system in which planners could count economic benefits not normally...

...resource projects of the federal government; this requirement specified that projects be undertaken only 'if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs' (US Flood Control Act, l936). Efforts to implement this requirement led to the preparation of a Green...

...social objectives. Congressional policy was established by the 1936 Flood Control Act, which stated that: "the federal government should improve or participate...their tributaries, including watersheds thereof, for flood control purposes if the benefits to whomsoever they accrue are in excess of the estimated costs,...

...the Flood Control Act of l936 states that the Federal Government should participate in flood control "if the benefits to whomsoever they may accrue are in excess of the estimated costs" [3]. That Public Law led to development of procedures for measuring the economic effects of flooding...