Amending the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act: Hearing...Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 8750, an Act to Amend the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. July 3, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 112 pagini Considers legislation to broaden scope of USDA watershed programs, permit construction of larger dams and reservoirs, and facilitate the financing of small flood control projects. |
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Pagina 67 - (60 Stat. 1080). SEC. 9. The Secretary is authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper in carrying out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 10. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated,
Pagina 79 - land, a land of brooks, or water, of fountains and depths that spring out of the valleys and hills ; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey ; a land wherein thou Shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills
Pagina 79 - Valley in Egypt. You are acquainted with the story of how Moses having led the Israelites through 40 years of wandering in the wilderness stook on the mount and looked across the Jordan Valley into the Promised Land. He described this to his followers in words like these : For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks,
Pagina 70 - Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Pagina 67 - application of such provision to any person, organization, or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons, organizations, or circumstances other than those as to
Pagina 45 - first become available, with interest at the average rate, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, payable by the Treasury upon its marketable public obligations outstanding at the beginning of the fiscal year in which the loan is made, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for
Pagina 64 - of America in Congress assembled, That the purpose of this Act is to encourage State and local participation in the development of projects under the Federal reclamation laws and to provide for Federal assistance in the development of similar projects in
Pagina 15 - acquire without cost to the Federal Government such land, easements, or rights-of-way as will be needed in connection with works of improvement installed with Federal assistance and assume such proportionate share of the cost of installing any works of improvement involving Federal assistance as may
Pagina 79 - land wherein thou Shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills they
Pagina 2 - purposes other than flood prevention and features related thereto shall be borne by the Federal Government under the provisions of this Act; (3) make arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary for defraying costs of operating and maintaining such works of improvement, in accordance with regulations presented by the Secretary of Agriculture ; (4)