Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 62 Part 1.djvu/1206

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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 771-JUNE 30,1948 DELAWARE RIVER BASIN Lackawaxen River, Pa. Wilkes-Barre and Hanover Township, Pa. 49 Stat. 1574. Gathright Reservoir and Falling Springs dam, Va. 60 Stat. 645 . Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okee- chobee, Fla. 46 Stat. 925. 60 Stat. 647. Canton Reservoir. 58 Stat. 891 890. 43 U. S. C. 1390; 33U.S.C. §708. The plan for flood protection on the Lackawaxen River, Pennsyl- vania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom- mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 113, Eightieth Congress, first session, and there is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $6,150,000 for partial accomplishment of that plan. SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN The project for local flood protection at Wilkes-Barre and Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, in accordance with House Document Num- bered 308, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, is hereby modified to provide for raising a portion of the river front section of the protective levee to provide a uniform degree of protection throughout its length at an estimated cost to the United States of $250,000 and subject to the conditions of local cooperation prescribed for that project in the Act approved June 22, 1936. JAMES RIVER BASIN That preparation of plans or construction shall not be undertaken on the Gathright Reservoir and the Falling Springs reregulating dam on Jackson River, Virginia, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved July 24, 1946, in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 207, Eightieth Congress, first session, until completion of review of the project to determine the desirability of its construction at the present time, and a finding of the proper local contribution on the basis of benefits to be derived for water supply, pollution abatement, and other conservation purposes. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA The project for Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okeechobee drainage areas, Florida, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930, as amended, is hereby modified and expanded to include the first phase of the comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in cen- tral and southern Florida as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 643, Eightieth Congress, subject to the conditions of local cooperation prescribed therein, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $16,300,000 for partial accom- plishment of said plan. ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN The second paragraph under the heading "Arkansas River Basin" in the Flood Control Act of 1946 is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Chief of Engineers is authorized to provide in the Canton Reservoir on the North Canadian River one hundred and seven thou- sand acre-feet of irrigation and water supply storage (including approximately sixty-nine thousand acre-feet for irrigation and thirty- eight thousand acre-feet for municipal water supply for Enid, Okla- homa, to be utilized in accordance with section 8 and section 6, respec- tively, of the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944 (Public, 534 Seventy-eighth Congress)), upon the condition that when siltation of the reservoir shall encroach upon the flood control allocation the irri- gation and water supply storage will be reduced progressively unless provision is made to raise the height of the dam or otherwise provide compensatory storage for flood control on the basis of an equitable distribution of the costs among the water users and other beneficiaries of conservation storage, as determined at that time." [62 STAT. 1176