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PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 795-JUNE 28, 1938 Upper Mississippi River Basin. Approval o Appropriat thorized. Proviso. Extension system. UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN fplan. The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur- poses in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, described in Flood Con- trol Committee Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, is ion an- approved and there is hereby authorized $6,600,000 for reservoirs and $2,700,000 for local flood-protection works on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers; the reservoirs and local protection projects to of levee be selected and approved by the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That this authorization shall include the enlargement and extension of a system of levees located on the south side of the Sangamon River east of the town of Chandlerville, Illinois, as set forth in House Document Numbered 604, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session. Missouri River Ba- sin. Approval of plan. Appropriation au- thorized. White River Basin. Approval of plan. Appropriation au- thorized. Arkansas River Ba- sin. Approval Appropria thorized. Proviso. Canton Included. OnachitW Ark., and tiple-use re Blakely site. Provisos. Particlia penses limit, fISSOURI RIVER BASIN The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur- poses in the Missouri River Basin, as set forth in Flood Control Committee Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first ses- sion, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, is approved and for the initiation and partial accomplishment of said plan there is hereby authorized $9,000,000 for reservoirs; the reser- voirs to be selected and approved by the Chief of Engineers. WHITE RIVER BASIN The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur- poses in the White River Basin, as set forth in Flood Control Com- mittee Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, is approved and for the initiation and partial accomplishment of said plan there is hereby authorized $25,000,000 for reservoirs; the reservoirs to be selected and approved by the Chief of Engineers. ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN of plan. The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur- poses in the Arkansas River Basin, as set forth in Flood Control Committee Document Numbered 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first ses- sion, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secre- tary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, is ation au- approved, and for the initiation and partial accomplishment of said plan there is hereby authorized $21,000,000 for reservoirs; the reser- voirs to be selected and approved by the Chief of Engineers: Pro- Reservoir vided, That this authorization shall include the Canton Reservoir on the North Canadian River in Oklahoma, as set forth in House Document Numbered 569, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session. L River For the purposes of preventing or controlling floods, and of facili- servoir tating navigation on the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana, Mountain authority is hereby conferred on the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers to participate on behalf of the United States in the cost of construction of a multiple-use reservoir at the Blakely Mountain site on the Ouachita River in Arkansas, according to plans and esti- mates duly approved by the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engi- neers, pursuant to a resolution of the Committee on Flood Control of iting ex- the House of Representatives, adopted May 11, 1938: Provided,That ad. the sum of money expended in said participation shall not exceed a just and reasonable proportion of the total cost of the multiple-use L52 STAT.