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PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1954
[68 Stat. 1265]

68 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 780-SEPT. 3, 1954

May 17, 1950, and these projects and plans are hereby modified to include power development in the following projects in tributary basins, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 531, Eighty-first Congress: Cougar Reservoir on South Fork of McKenzie River, Oregon, and Green Peter Reservoir on Middle Fork of Santiam River, Oregon, including White Bridge reregulating reservoir on Middle Fork of Santiam River, Oregon. The project for flood protection on Amazon Creek at Eugene and vicinity, Oregon, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, and modified by the Flood Control Act of 1950, is further modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in Senate Document Numbered 131, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $893,600.

1265 64 Stat. 178.

60 Stat. 650.

TERRITORY OF ALASKA

The project for flood protection on Gold Creek and tributaries, Alaska, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 54, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $380,000. TERRITORY OF H A W A II

The project for flood protection on the Wailoa Stream and its tributaries, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 529, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $347,000. SEC. 204. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control and allied purposes, including channel and major drainage improvements, and floods aggravated by or due to wind or tidal effects, to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in drainage areas of the United States and its Territorial possessions, which include the following-named localities: Provided, That after the regular or formal reports made on any examination, survey, project, or work underway or proposed are submitted to Congress, no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless authorized by law except that the Secretary of the Army may cause a review of any examination or survey to be made and a report thereon submitted to Congress if such review is required by the national defense or by changed physical or economic conditions: Provided further, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or stream mentioned in this section until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: Ipswich River, Massachusetts. Neponset River, Massachusetts. Ash and Pine Creeks, Fairfield and vicinity, Connecticut. Juniata River at Lewistown and other points in Pennsylvania in the interest of flood control. Streams in the vicinity of Alice, Texas. Devils River and tributaries, Texas. Rio Hondo and tributaries, New Mexico. Redwood Creek, Humboldt County, California. Coos Bay, Oregon. SEC. 205. I n addition to previous authorizations, the sum of $20,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for expenditure by the Department of Agriculture for the prosecution of the works of

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Preliminary examinations and s u r v e y s, author! zation.

Appropriation.