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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... going to come between providing incentive and ability for people to control the waters and the floods at the high levels , to conserve the water , and to prevent these runoffs which deplete the soil and also create canyons throughout ...
... going to come between providing incentive and ability for people to control the waters and the floods at the high levels , to conserve the water , and to prevent these runoffs which deplete the soil and also create canyons throughout ...
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... going to be before us are going to be with reference to these questions : No. 1 , the removal of limitation on size of the reservoirs as contained in Public Law 566 . Do you have any comment to make on that phase of the legislation ...
... going to be before us are going to be with reference to these questions : No. 1 , the removal of limitation on size of the reservoirs as contained in Public Law 566 . Do you have any comment to make on that phase of the legislation ...
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... going to assume the complete finan- cial responsibility . That is the matter that concerns me in this , and I think most of our people interested in this bill are also concerned with the same thing . Senator CASE . Mr. Chairman , you ...
... going to assume the complete finan- cial responsibility . That is the matter that concerns me in this , and I think most of our people interested in this bill are also concerned with the same thing . Senator CASE . Mr. Chairman , you ...
Pagina 11
... going to go - I do not mean you personally - but are we going to think in terms of this so that the Government is going to finance one or more dams on every- one's land , all of which are flood control or may be properly termed " flood ...
... going to go - I do not mean you personally - but are we going to think in terms of this so that the Government is going to finance one or more dams on every- one's land , all of which are flood control or may be properly termed " flood ...
Pagina 12
... going to carry on a similar project and work on a similar program ? Senator ALLOTT . The chairman loves to do what I like to do in arguing , and that is to draw in from the extremes and show things that make it look very bad . And there ...
... going to carry on a similar project and work on a similar program ? Senator ALLOTT . The chairman loves to do what I like to do in arguing , and that is to draw in from the extremes and show things that make it look very bad . And there ...
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acre-feet acre-foot approved Army engineers Association of Soil authorized believe benefits BROWN Bureau of Reclamation capacity in excess carrying Chairman Chief of Engineers Colorado committee Congress congressional construction cost contract coordination Corps of Engineers cost of structural cost sharing dams Department of Agriculture downstream enactment farm farmers Federal agencies Federal Government finance fish and wildlife flood control Flood Prevention Act going GUTERMUTH improvement interest irrigation ITSCHNER legislation limitation loans ment municipal water supply National Grange Oklahoma operation organizations percent permit PETERSON Poage bill problem proposed amendments Protection and Flood Public Law 566 purposes reservoirs rights-of-way RITTENOURE River Secretary of Agriculture Senator ALLOTT Senator HRUSKA Senator KERR small projects soil and water Soil Conservation Districts Soil Conservation Service statement storage subcommittee Thank tion total capacity United States Senate upstream water conservation water resources Watershed Act Watershed Protection
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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.