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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... proposed bill provides for the creation of seven such agencies : ( 1 ) Atlantic Seaboard Planning Agency , for the drainage basins in the United States of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean and of the rivers flowing into the ...
... proposed bill provides for the creation of seven such agencies : ( 1 ) Atlantic Seaboard Planning Agency , for the drainage basins in the United States of the rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean and of the rivers flowing into the ...
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... proposed bill accordingly directs the President to set up a regional power authority , whenever he deems necessary in the public interest , to administer Federal hydroelectric developments in that region . Each such regional power ...
... proposed bill accordingly directs the President to set up a regional power authority , whenever he deems necessary in the public interest , to administer Federal hydroelectric developments in that region . Each such regional power ...
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... proposed development as it may find necessary , and shall submit its findings to Congress with such recommendations as it may find appropriate concerning such development . " ( Federal Power Act , sec . 7 ( b ) ) . From the above ...
... proposed development as it may find necessary , and shall submit its findings to Congress with such recommendations as it may find appropriate concerning such development . " ( Federal Power Act , sec . 7 ( b ) ) . From the above ...
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... proposed arrangements with the departments concerned and with the President . There should be opportunity for consultation and con- ference . Final authority to effect coordination should rest either with the depart- ment primarily ...
... proposed arrangements with the departments concerned and with the President . There should be opportunity for consultation and con- ference . Final authority to effect coordination should rest either with the depart- ment primarily ...
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... proposed conservation authorities exhaust be- tween them the continental area of the United States , and that the ... propose , duplication by the conserva- tion authorities of a large part of the work of the Department of Agriculture ...
... proposed conservation authorities exhaust be- tween them the continental area of the United States , and that the ... propose , duplication by the conserva- tion authorities of a large part of the work of the Department of Agriculture ...
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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...