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PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
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PUBLIC LAW 85-500-JULY 3, 1958

The project for flood protection on Tug Fork of Big Sandy Kiver at "Williamson, West Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 105, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $625,000. The project for flood protection on Lake Chautauqua and Chadakoin River at Jamestown, New York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 103, Eighty-fourth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,796,000. The project for flood protection on the West Branch of the Mahoning River, Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 191, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $12,585,000. The project for flood protection on Chartiers Creek, at and in the vicinity of Washington, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 286, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,286,000. The project for flood protection in the Turtle Creek Basin, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 390, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,417,000. The project for flood protection on Sandy Lick Creek at Brookville, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 166, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,188,000. The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Ohio River Basin is modified to provide for a reservoir at the Monroe Reservoir site, mile 25.6, on Salt Creek, White River Basin, Indiana, in accordance with the recommendations of th^ Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 192, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,359,000. GILA RIVER B A S I N

The comprehensive plan of improvement for the Gila River between Camelsback Reservoir site and the mouth of the Salt River, as set forth in paragraph 41 of the Report of the District Engineer, Los Angeles District, dated December 31, 1957, is approved as a basis for the future development of the Gila River, subject to further detailed study and specific authorization; and the channel improvement work recommended by the District Engineer in paragraph 58 of that report, is hereby authorized at an estimated Federal cost of $1,570,000, subject to the condition that local interests furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) provide necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way; (b) maintain and operate the channel improvements in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army at an average annual cost estimated at $50,000; (c) keep the flood channel of the Gila River from the upper end of Safford Valley to San Carlos Reservoir and from the mouth of the San Pedro River to Buttes Reservoir site free from encroachment; (d) hold and save the United States free from all damages arising from construction and operation of the work; and (e) adjust all water-rights claims resulting from construction, operation, and maintenance of the improvements: Provided, That in the consideration of benefits in connection with the study of any upstream reservoir, the channel improvements herein authorized and the up-

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