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, 1956

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U.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 79 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil...
Pagina 65 - That all moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico...
Pagina 94 - ... the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives.
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 65 - For the purposes of this section — (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die ; and (2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of any period of time in which Congress is in continuous session.
Pagina 3 - For the purposes of this Act, the following terms shall mean: The "Secretary — the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. "Works of improvement...
Pagina 2 - ... (2) Except as to the installation of works of improvement on Federal lands, the Secretary shall not construct or enter into any contract for the construction of any structure: Provided, That, if requested to do so by the local organization, the Secretary may enter into contracts for the construction of structures.
Pagina 79 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Pagina 2 - Agriculture. (4) acquire, or provide assurance that landowners or water users have acquired, such water rights, pursuant to State law, as may be needed in the installation and operation of the work of improvement.
Pagina 3 - Army, respectively, for his views and recommendations at least thirty days prior to transmission of the plan to the Congress through the President.

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