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PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 309]

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PUBLIC LAW 85-500-JULY 3, 1958

the Navarro Mills Reservoir on Richland Creek, Texas, authorized by section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, local interests shall be required to pay $300,000 as the total cost of the project attributable to increase in net returns from higher utilization of the downstream valley lands.

309 e* Stat. i258.

RED-OUACHITA RIVER BASIN

The general plan for flood control on Red River, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, below Denison Dam, Texas and Oklahoma, as authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, is modified and expanded, at an estimated cost in addition to that now authorized of $53,235,000, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 170, Eightyfifth Congress, on Milhvood Reservoir and alternate reservoirs. Little River, Oklahoma and Arkansas, except as follows: (1) All flood-control and land-enhancement benefits shall be nonreimbursable. (2) Penstocks or other facilities, to provide for future power installations, shall be provided in the reservoirs to be constructed above the Millwood Reservoir, if approved by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers and the Federal Power Commission.

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GULF OF MEXICO

The project for hurricane-flood protection on Galveston Bay, Texas, at and in the vicinity of Texas City, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 347, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated Federal cost of $5,662,000: Provided, That in lieu of the local cooperation recommended in the report of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 347, Eighty-fifth Congress, local interests (a) contribute 30 per centum of the first cost of the project, said 30 per centum being presently estimated at $2,427,000, including the cost of lands, easements, and rights-of-way; (b) contribute, at their option, the additional cost of providing ramps in lieu of closure structures presently estimated at $200,000; (c) hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works; and (d) maintain and operate all the works after completion. ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN

The project for the Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River, Colorado, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 325, Eighty-fourth Congress, at an estimated cost of $16,628,000. The first section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of the Markham Ferry project on the Grand River in Oklahoma by the Grand River Dam Authority, an instrumentality of the State'of Oklahoma", approved July 6, 1954 (68 Stat. 450), is amended by inserting after "as recommended by the Chief of Engineers," the following: "or such additional flood storage or pool elevations, or both as may be approved by the Chief of Engineers,". W H I T E RIVER BASIN

I n addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized the sum of $57,000,000 for the prosecution of the comprehensive plan for the White River Basiuj approved in the Act of June 28, 1938, as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress.

52 Stat. 1218.