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68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 780-SEPT. 3, 1954

738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended and supplemented, is hereby modified to provide for the construction, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, of a flood control reservoir on Otter Brook at South Keene, New Hampshire, in lieu of any reservoir or reservoirs heretofore authorized. That the plan for the West River Basin of the Connecticut River in Vermont is hereby modified to consist of three reservoirs at the Ball Mountain, The Island, and Townshend sites, in lieu of the plan of eight reservoirs authorized in section 10 of the Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944, in general accordance with the plan agreed to by the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Engineers, and the Vermont State Water Conservation Board in June 1950; and the conditions specified in the plan of the eight reservoirs authorized in section 10 of the Flood Control Act approved December 22, 1944, shall not apply.

125T 49 Stat. 1572.

58 Stat. 8 9 1.

S U S Q U E H A N N A RIVER B A S I N

The project for the Susquehanna River in the vicinity of Endicott, Johnson City, and Vestal, New York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 500, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,469,000. The plan for flood protection on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania and New York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated June 25, 1954, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $25,000,000 for partial accomplishment of that plan.

Appropriation.

CENTRAL A N D S O U THE R N FLORIDA

The authorization for the comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in central and southern Florida given by the Flood Control Act of June 30, 1948, as amended, is hereby modified and expanded to include the entire comprehensive plan of improvement as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 043, Eightieth Congress, with such modifications thereof as the Congress may hereafter authorize, or as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable: Provided, That the conditions of local cooperation for the authorized first phase heretofore approved by said flood control Act shall apply to that authorized first phase, but for all work over and beyond that previous authorization such conditions shall apply on an interim basis only until they shall be modified as deemed appropriate by the Congress, based on recommendations to be submitted at the earliest practicable date by the Chief of Engineers, through the Bureau of the Budget to the Congress: Provided further. That whatever conditions of local cooperation are established by Congress as the result of such recommendations shall be retroactive to any units of the comprehensive plan authorized in this Act which may be started prior to establishment of the exact conditions of local cooperation: And provided further, That in addition to previous authorizations there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $7,000,000 for partial accomplishment of said plan.

62 Stat. 1175.

^ p r o p r i ation.

LOWER M I S S I S S I P P I RIVER

The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Mississippi River, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928, as amended and modified, is hereby further modified and expanded to include the

45 Stat. 534.