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55 STAT.] 77TH OONG., 1ST SESS.-CH. 377-AUG. 18,1941 The plan for the Narrows Reservoir for flood control and other purposes on the Little Missouri River, Arkansas, and for local flood protection on the main river below Murfreesboro and on the Terre oire and Ozan Creeks, substantially in accordance with recommenda- tion of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 837, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, is approved and there is hereby authorized $3,000,000 for initiation and partial accomplishment of the project. WHITE RIVER BASIN In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $24,000,000 for the prosecution of the comprehensive plan approved in the Act of June 28, 1938, for the White River Basin in Missouri and Arkansas, including the projects for flood control and other purposes recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 917, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, and the modifications in the Norfork Reservoir project recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num- bered 290, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session. The projects for local flood protection on the White River, on the east side between Augusta and Clarendon, Arkansas, and at the town of De Valls Bluff, Arkansas, are hereby authorized to be con- structed substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 98, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, at an estimated cost of $2,847,500. ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur- poses, approved by the Act of June 28, 1938, for the Arkansas River Basin, is hereby modified to include the reservoirs in the Grand (Neosho) River Basin in Oklahoma and Missouri, and in the Verdigris River Basin in Kansas, in accordance with the recom- mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Documents Num- bered 107 and 440 of the Seventy-sixth Congress, first session. In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $29,000,000 for the prosecution of said comprehensive plan. The project for local flood protection on the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in the vicinity of Cherokee, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized to be constructed substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 480, Seventy-sixth Congress, second session, at an esti- mated cost of $800,000. The project for local flood protection along the south bank of the Arkansas River between Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is hereby authorized to be constructed substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 718, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, at an estimated cost of $641.000 . with such modifications as may be advisable in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers. The project for local flood protection along the north bank of the Arkansas River in the Crawford County Levee District, Arkansas, is hereby authorized to be constructed substantially in accordance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu- ment Numbered 720, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, at an estimated cost of $284,000. The project for local flood protection on both sides of the Arkansas River in the immediate vicinity of Tulsa and West Tulsa, Okla- homa, is hereby authorized to be constructed substantially in accord- 645 Little Missouri Riv- er, Ark. Appropriation authorized. Additional appro- priation authorized. 52 Stat. 1218 . Norfork Reservoir. Projects for local protection. 52 Stat. 1218. Reservoirs included. Additional appro- priation authorized. Cherokee, Okla. Project between Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Ark. Crawford County, Ark. Tolsa and West Tulsa, Okla.