Regional Conservation and Development of the National Resources: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First[-third] Session, on H.R. 7365 and H.R. 7863, Bills to Provide for the Regional Conservation and Development of the National Resources and for Other Purposes, Parts 1-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 |
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... activities for or incidental to the promotion of navigation , the control and prevention of floods , the safeguarding of navigable waters , and the reclamation of the public lands , in order to aid and protect com- merce among the ...
... activities for or incidental to the promotion of navigation , the control and prevention of floods , the safeguarding of navigable waters , and the reclamation of the public lands , in order to aid and protect com- merce among the ...
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... activities in accordance with the purposes of this Act and to obtain the advantages of natural and economic boundaries for such plans , projects , and activities or any classification or classifications thereof . REGIONAL PLANNING ...
... activities in accordance with the purposes of this Act and to obtain the advantages of natural and economic boundaries for such plans , projects , and activities or any classification or classifications thereof . REGIONAL PLANNING ...
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... activities , and regional developments for the purpose of increasing efficiency and eliminating waste and duplication of effort , each regional planning agency shall study and survey the projects and activities within its jurisdiction ...
... activities , and regional developments for the purpose of increasing efficiency and eliminating waste and duplication of effort , each regional planning agency shall study and survey the projects and activities within its jurisdiction ...
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... activities for or incidental to the promotion of naviga- tion , the control and prevention of floods , the safeguarding of navigable waters , and the reclamation of the public lands ( all as more praticularly described in the provisions ...
... activities for or incidental to the promotion of naviga- tion , the control and prevention of floods , the safeguarding of navigable waters , and the reclamation of the public lands ( all as more praticularly described in the provisions ...
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... activities , the development of their multiple purposes , and the equitable distribution of the benefits thereof ; ( 5 ) equitable contributions to cost by States and subdivisions and agencies thereof specially benefited by the projects ...
... activities , the development of their multiple purposes , and the equitable distribution of the benefits thereof ; ( 5 ) equitable contributions to cost by States and subdivisions and agencies thereof specially benefited by the projects ...
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Page 14 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 119 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 115 - Such action shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides, or has his principal place of business, or, if he does not reside or have his principal place of business within any such judicial district, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Page 695 - That the right of way through the public lands and reservations of the United States is hereby granted to any canal or ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation and duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory, which shall have filed, or may hereafter file, with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoir and of the canal and its laterals,...
Page 27 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...
Page 695 - State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Page 680 - ... the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof.
Page 112 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of Bonneville project) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment over a reasonable period of years.
Page 28 - In issuing preliminary permits hereunder or licenses where no preliminary permit has been issued and in issuing licenses to new licensees under section 15 hereof the Commission shall give preference to applications therefor by States and municipalities, provided the plans for the same are deemed by the Commission equally well adapted, or shall within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Commission be made equally well adapted, to conserve and utilize in the public interest the water resources of...
Page 16 - The rights and remedies provided by this title shall be in addition to any and all other rights and remedies that may exist at law or in equity...