PROJECTS DELETED FROM THE HOUSE BILL BY SENATE AMENDMENTS TO WHICH THE HOUSE CONFEREES RECEDED PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED PROJECT RECOMMENDED FOR ABANDONMENT BY SENATE AMENDMENT TO WHICH THE HOUSE CONFEREES RECEDED 472, 78th Cong.. Boston Harbor, Mass. (seaplane channel).. $2, 300 000 ITEMIZED EXPLANATION OF ALL SENATE AMENDMENTS Amendment No. 1 (p. 1): Declaration of policy by the Congress recognizing the interests and rights of the States in determining the development of the watersheds within their borders and likewise their interests and rights in water utilization and control, in connection with works of improvement for navigation and flood control, as authorized by this bill. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 2 (p. 7): Josias River, Maine. Item in House bill amended so that local cooperation already effected can be accepted. There is no additional cost to the United States. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 3 (p. 7): Boston Harbor, Mass. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers abandons project previously authorized in the river and harbor bill approved October 17, 1940, for a seaplane channel and basin and further prohibits the construetion of a seaplane channel at the subsequently recommended alternate location. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 4 (p. 9): New Haven Harbor, Conn. Item in the House bill for the improvement of New Haven Harbor recommended by the Chief of Engineers amended by the Senate to eliminate authorization of that portion of the project in Quinnipiac River which was estimated to cost $835,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 5 (p. 9): Mianus River, Conn. Item adopts project recommended by the Chief of Engineers to provide a channel 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep at an estimated cost of $26,500. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 6 (p. 9): Larchmont Harbor, N. Y. Item in House bill stricken by Senate amendment because of divided opinion of local interests. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 7 (p. 16): Santee and Congaree Rivers, N. C. and S. C. Project recommended by the Chief of Engineers for initial and partial authorization in the amount of $25,000,000 for the construction of multiple-purpose reservoirs and a channel up to Columbia, S. C., 8 feet deep and 150 feet wide. Senate recedes. The Senate amendment provided for referring the general plan for the comprehensive development of the Santee and Congaree Rivers, N. C. and S. C., for navigation and other purposes to the Committee on Commerce and to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, to the end that hearings might be had with the people concerned and with instructions to report back to their respective Houses within 6 months. The receding by the Senate leaves this plan unauthorized. Amendment No. 8 (p. 16): Shipyard River, S. C. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers recommends extension of the existing 30-foot channel at a first cost of $246,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 9 (p. 17): St. Johns River, Fla. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers for deepening of the existing 30foot channel from Jacksonville to the ocean, to 34 feet at a cost of $3,200,000 and further improvement under an additional recommended project to cost $2,032,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 10 (p. 18): Lake Worth Inlet, Fla. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for deepening the present channel and turning basin from 20 to 25 feet at a cost of $711,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 11 (p. 18): Miami Harbor, Fla. Authorizes such modifications of project at no additional cost in the House bill as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 12 (p. 19): Tampa Harbor, Fla. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for widening of existing channels at a cost of $607,400. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 13 (p. 22): Intracoastal Waterway in the vicinity of Algiers at New Orleans, La. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for construction of an alternate channel to care for an overburdened section of the waterway at an estimated cost of $8,000,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 14 (p. 22): Bayous Petite Anse, Tigre, and Carlin, La. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for deepening of the existing channel in Bayou Carlin from 5 to 9 feet. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 15 (p. 22): Louisiana and Texas Intracoastal Waterway. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for initial improvement for a 6-foot branch channel to, and terminal basin at, Red Fish Landing, Tex., to cost $25,500; to be increased to a depth of 12 feet when traffic warrants, at an additional cost of $57,600. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 16 (p. 23): Lavon Reservoir on east fork of Trinity River, Tex. Clarifying amendment to item in House bill. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 17 (p. 24): Aransas Pass-Corpus Christi Channel, Tex. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for deepening of existing channels from 32 to 34 feet and for increased widths in channels and turning basins, all to cost $830,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 18 (p. 26): Missouri River between Sioux City and the mouth. Item deletes proviso in House bill. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 19 (p. 26): Missouri River Basin. Item approves comprehensive plans of improvement recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document 475 and Senate Document 191, Seventyeighth Congress, as revised and coordinated in Senate Document 247, Seventy-eighth Congress, and authorizes initial stages to be prosecuted by the War and Interior Departments as speedily as may be consistent with budgetary requirements. Further provided is expansion of the general plan for flood control and other purposes approved by the act of June 28, 1938, by additional works to be undertaken by the War Department. Also, reclamation and power developments to be undertaken by the Secretary of the Interior shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws, except that irrigation of Indian lands shall be in accordance with laws relating to Indian lands, all subject to basin-wide investigations and reclamations made in said documents. For partial accomplishment of the works to be undertaken under the expanded plans by the Corps of Engineers the sum of $200,000,000 is authorized in addition to previous authorizations. In addition, $200,000,000 is authorized for partial accomplishment of the works to be undertaken under said plans by the Secretary of the Interior. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 20 (p. 27): Scioto River at Portsmouth, Ohio. Item authorizes such works as Chief of Engineers may find advisable to provide a harbor channel equivalent to that existing prior to initiation of the Portsmouth flood-control project, to cost $75,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 21 (p. 29): St. Marys River, Mich., south cans. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for removal of Bridge Island in St. Marys Falls Canal to secure a channel of 27 feet at an estimated cost of $1,412,000, which includes contribution by the United States toward the reconstruction of a railroad bridge. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 22 (p. 29): St. Marys River, Mich. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for the construction of s new hydroelectric plant to replace an obsolete federally owned plant which is beyond economic repair, this authorization being limited to the construction of the first step of the recommended development at a cost of $3,500,000. House conferees recede. Amendments Nos. 23 to 26, inclusive (p. 34): Snake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. Item in House bill amended to increase the scope of the project from the initial step for the construction of four locks and dams estimated to cost $30,200,000 as provided in the House bill, to provide for the construction of such dams as are necessary to provide slack-water navigation at an estimated increased cost of $28,425,000 for dams numbered 1 to 10. After slight changes in language for the purpose of clarification, the House conferees receded. Amendment No. 27 (p. 34) Snake River, Oreg., Wash., and Idaho. Further amendment to the previous item provides that surplus electric energy generated at the dams authorized in this project shall be de livered to the Secretary of the Interior for disposition in accordance with existing laws relating to the disposition of power at Bonneville Dam with the added proviso that nothing in this authorization shall be construed as conferring the power of condemnation of transmission lines. House conferees recede. Amendments Nos. 28 and 29 (p. 34): Columbia River at Bonneville. Oreg. Item in House bill authorizing the Secretary of War to acquire lands and provide facilities in Oregon to replace Indian fishing grounds destroyed as a result of the construction of the Bonneville Dam is amended by the Senate to include the State of Washington in the provisions of the provision. House conferees recede. Amendments Nos. 30 to 32, inclusive (p. 35): Columbia River, Oreg. and Wash. (Umatilla Dam). Proviso (No. 30) stating that surplus electric energy generated at said dam shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for disposition in accordance with existing laws relating to the disposition of power at Bonneville Dam; and (No. 31) a further provision prohibits the condemnation of transmission lines; (No. 32) the one word "further". House conferees recede. Amendment No. 33 (p. 36): Umatilla Dam. Item for the authorization of in the House bill amended so that the dam when completed shall be known as the McNary Dam in honor of the late Senator Charles L. McNary. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 34 (p. 37): Grays Harbor and Chehalis River to Aberdeen, Wash. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for maintenance of channels at an estimated annual cost of $160,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 35 (p. 38): Sitka Harbor, Alaska. Item recommended by the Chief of Engineers provides for dredging of Crescent Bay at Sitka of an area of 13 acres to a depth of 10 feet and construction of protective breakwaters, to cost $385,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 36 (p. 38): San Juan Harbor, P. R. Item provides for maintenance of channels dredged in the interest of the war effort, at an annual cost of $100,000. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 37 (p. 41): Central Valley project, California. Section 4 of House bill relating to Federal reclamation laws in that the excess lands provisions of same shall not be applicable to lands which will receive a water supply from the Central Valley project, reauthorized by section 2 of the River and Harbor Act approved August 26, 1937. Senate recedes. Amendment No. 38 (p. 42): Section 4. Enables construction by the Secretary of the Interior, under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws and upon the authorization of Congress, of irrigation works at dams and reservoirs authorized in the bill, which the Secretary of War determines may also be used for irrigation purposes. House conferees recede. Amendment No. 39 (p. 43): Section 5. Authorizes the Chief of Engineers to employ physicians to make physical examinations of employees or prospective employees in order to determine their suitability for employment with payment of reasonable charges for such services. House conferees recede. Authorizes the Secretary Amendment No. 40 (p. 43): Section 6. of the Interior to dispose of, at reasonable rates approved by the Federal Power Commission, electric energy generated at projects authorized by this bill provided that the Secretary of War finds such power not needed in the operation of the projects. Construction and acquisition of transmission lines is limited to those required for the economical distribution of the power in wholesale quantities. House conferees recede. The conferees unanimously agreed that the words "amortization of capital investment", included reasonable interest. As amended this provision reads as follows: Electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the War Department and in the opinion of the Secretary of War not required in the operation of such projects shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission. Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over s reasonable period of years. Preference in the sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized from funds to be appropriated by the Congress to construct or acquire by purchase or other agreement only such transmission lines and related facilities as may be necessary in order to make the power and energy generated at said projects available in wholesale quantities for sale on fair and reasonable terms and conditions to facilities owned by the Federal Government, public bodies, cooperstives, and privately owned companies. All moneys received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Amendment No. 41 (p. 44): Changes section number. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION AND SURVEY ITEMS-LOCALITY Amendment No. 42: Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Amendment No. 44: Channel from Buzzards Bay to Buttermilk Bay, Mass. Amendment No. 45: Mystic River, Mass. Amendment No. 46: Falmouth Harbor, Mass. Amendment No. 47: Strikes out survey in House bill for New Bedford and Fairhaven Harbors, Mass. Amendment No. 48: Peconic River, Long Island, N. Y. Amendment No. 49: At Smithton, Long Island, N. Y. Amendment No. 50: Nissequoque River, N. Y. Amendment No. 51: St. James Harbor, N. Y. Amendment No. 52: Hudson River, N. Y.-Albany to New York City. Amendment No. 53: Sandy Hook Bay, N. J., channel at Leonardo. Amendment No. 54: Schuylkill River, Pa. Amendment No. 55: Ocean City Harbor and Inlet, and Sinepuxent Bay, Md. Amendment No. 56: Crisfield Harbor, Md. Amendment No. 57: Bear Creek and Lynch Cove, Md. Amendment No. 58: Deep Creek and Fresh Water Pond, Md. Amendment No. 59: Nanticoke River, Bivalve, Wicomico County, Md. Amendment No. 60: Governor's Run, Calvert County, Md. Amendment No. 61: Channel between Ramsey Bay and Chesapeake Bay, and other measures for the prevention of damage from erosion near the mouth of South River, Anne Arundel County, Md. Amendment No. 62: Lynnhaven Inlet and Bay and connecting waters, Virginia. Amendment No. 63: Inland waterway from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort, N. C., with a view to providing a side channel 12 feet deep through Pasquotank River and Albemarle Sound to Elizabeth City. Amendment No. 64: Santee-Congaree Buckingham Landing site, South Carolina. Amendment No. 65: Cooper River, S. C., from Charleston Harbor to the Pinopolis power plant. Amendment No. 66: St. Johns River, Fla.-Palatka to Lake Harney. |