Amendment to Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Conservation and Credit of ..., 84-2 on H.R. 6687, H.R. 8722, H.R. 8738 ..., February 14 and 15, 1956

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Pagina 4 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Mates of America in Congress assembled, That...
Pagina 6 - Works of improvement" — any undertaking for — • (1) flood prevention (including structural and land-treatment measures) or (2) the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water in watershed or subwatershed areas not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand acres and not including any single structure which provides more than twelve thousand five hundred acre-feet of floodwater detention capacity, and more than twenty-five thousand acre-feet of total capacity.
Pagina 8 - That the Secretary may advance such amounts as may be necessary to pay for such services, but such advances with respect to any works of improvement shall not exceed 5 per centum of the estimated installation cost of such works.
Pagina 35 - That, 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 unless there is no local organization authorized by State law to undertake such construction or to enter into such contract...
Pagina 4 - Secretary may enter into contracts for the construction of structures. (3) Whenever the estimated Federal contribution to the construction cost of works of improvement in the plan for any watershed or subwatershed area shall exceed $250,000...
Pagina 6 - ... 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 or advancement is made, which are neither due nor callable for redemption for 15 years from date of issue.
Pagina 69 - Is agreed that the Fish and Wildlife Service and the State fish and game agencies...
Pagina 5 - Sec. 8. The Secretary is authorized to make loans or advancements (a) to local organizations to finance the local share of costs of carrying out works of improvement provided for in this Act...
Pagina 11 - Government such land, easements, or rights-of-way as will be needed in connection with works of improvement installed with Federal assistance; (2) assume such proportionate share of the cost of installing any works of improvement involving Federal assistance as may be determined by the Secretary to be equitable in consideration of anticipated benefits from such improvements...
Pagina 4 - ... first become available, with interest at the average rate, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury...

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