An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes
PL 89-298 (S.2300), enacted 10/27/1965

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Public Law 89-298 
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October 27, 
1965 
Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works 
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on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
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TITIvE I—NORTHEASTERN UNITED 
STATES WATER and repair, 
SUPPLY 
SEC. 101. (a) Congress hereby recognizes that assuring adequate 
supplies of water for the great metropolitan centers of the United 
States has become a problem of such magnitude that the welfare and 
prosperity of this country require the Federal Government to assist 
in the solution of water supply problems. Therefore, the Secretary 
of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, is authorized 
to cooperate with Federal, State, and local agencies in preparing 
plans in accordance with the Water Resources Planning Act (Public 
Law 89-80) to meet the long-range water needs of the northeastern 
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United States. This plan may provide for the construction, opera-
tion, and maintenance by the United States of (1) a system of major 
reservoirs to be located within those river basins of the Northeastern 
United States which drain into the Chesapeake Bay, those that 
drain into the Atlantic Ocean north of the Chesapeake Bay, those 
that drain into Lake Ontario, and those that drain into the Saint 
Lawrence River, (2) major conveyance facilities by which water 
may be exchanged between these river basins to the extent found 
desirable in the national interest, and (3) major purification facilities. 
Such plans shall provide for appropriate financial participation by 
the States, political subdivisions thereof, and other local interests. 
(b) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engi-
neers, shall construct, operate, and maintain those reservoirs, con-
veyance facilities, and purification facilities, which are recommended 
in the plan prepared in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, 
and which are specifically authorized by law enacted after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(c) Each reservoir included in the plan authorized by this section 
shall be considered as a component of a comprehensive plan for the 
optimum development of the river basin in which it is situated, as well 
as a component of the plan established in accordance with this section. 
TITLE I I ~ F L O O D CONTROL 
SEC. 201. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief 
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of Engineers, is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain any 
water resource development project, including single and multiple 
puri>ose projects involving, but not limited to, navigation, flood con-
trol, and shore protection, if the estimated Federal first cost of con-
structing such project, is less than $10,000,000. No appn>priation shall 
be made to construct, operate, or maintain any such project if such 
pi"()ject has not been approved by resolutions adopted by the Com-
mittees on Public Works of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
lespectively. 
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(b) Any water resource development project authorized to be con-
structed by this section shall be subject to the same requirements of 
local cooperation as it would be if the estimated Federal first cost of 
such project were $10,000,000 or more. 
SEC. 202. Section 3 of the Act approved June 22, 1936 (Public 
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^^^^ Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as aniended by section 
2 of the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public Law Numbered 761, 
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Seventy-fifth Congress), shall apply to all works authorized in this 
title except that for any channel improvement or channel rectification 
project, provisions (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of said Act of June 
22,1936, ^hall apply thereto, and except as otherwise provided bv law, 
the authorization for any flood control project authorized by this Act 
requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from the date on 
which local interests are notified in writing by the Department of the 
Army of the requirements of local cooperation, unless said interests 
shall within said time furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary 
of the Army that the required cooperation will be furnished. 
SEC. 203. The provisions of section 1 of the Act of December 22, 
1944 (Public Law Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, second 
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session), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this Act, 
and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, 
or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control 
and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto shall apply as if 
herein set forth in full. 
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^Ec. 204. The following works of improvement for the benefit of 
navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters and other pur-
poses are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the 
Chief of Engineers in accordance with the plans in the respective 
reports hereinafter designated and subject to the conditions set forth 
therein. 
The necessary plans, specifications, and preliminary work 
may be prosecuted on any project authorized in this title with funds 
from appropriations hereafter made for flood control so as to be ready 
for rapid inauguration of a construction program. 
The projects 
authorized in this title shall be initiated as expeditiously and prose-
cuted as vigorously as may be consistent with budgetary requirements. 
Penstocks and other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in 
the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam 
authorized in this Act for construction by the Department of the 
Army when approved by the Secretary of the Army on the recom-
mendation of the Chief of Engineers and the Federal Power 
Commission. 
SAINT J O H N RIVER BASIN 
The Dickey-Lincoln School project. Saint John Kiver, Maine, is 
hereby authorized as approved by the President on July 12, 1965, and 
substantially in accordance with the plans included in the report of 
the Department of the Interior and the Corps of Engineers dated 
August 1964, which is a supplement to the July 1963 report of the 
International Passamaquoddy tidal power project and upper Saint 
John River hydroelectric power development, at an estimated cost of 
$227,000,000. 
HOUSATONIO RIVER 
BASIN 
The projects for flood protection on the Housatonic, Naugatuck, and 
Still Rivers at Derby and Danbury, Connecticut, are hereby author-
ized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 324, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $5,100,000. 
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N E W ENGLAND-ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection at Westerly, 
Khode Island, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 85, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,287,000. 
LONG ISLAND SOUND AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Stratford, Connecti-
cut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
292, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,340,000. 
HUDSON RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection at Yonkers, Saw Mill River, New 
York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
258, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,924,000. 
N E W YORK-ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion con-
trol at East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway Inlet and Jamaica Bay, 
New York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 215, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$32,620,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion con-
trol at Staten Island, Fort Wadsworth to Arthur Kill, New York, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 181, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,230,000. 
ELIZABETH RIVER BASIN, NEW JERSEY 
The project for hurricane-flood protection on the Elizabeth River, 
New Jersey, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 249, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$9,769,000. 
RAHWAY RIVER BASIN, NEW JERSEY 
The project for flood protection on the Rah 
way River, New Jersey, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
67, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,514,000. 
NEUSE RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Falls Dam and Reservoir, Neuse River, North 
Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 175, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $18,600,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at New Bern and Vicinity, 
North Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 183, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$10,400,000. 
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MIDDLE ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion control 
at Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 109, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,636,000. 
F L I N T RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Lazer Creek Reservoir, Flint Eiver, Georgia, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 567, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $40,378,000. 
The project for the Lower Auchumpkee Reservoir, Flint River, 
Georgia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 567, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $48,275,000. 
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA BASIN 
Comprehensive Plan 
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The comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in cen-
62 Stat. 1176. 
tral aud southern Florida approved in the Act of June 30, 1948, and 
subsequent Acts of Congress, is hereby modified to include the follow-
ing items: 
The project for flood protection in Hendry County, west of levees 
1,2, and 3, Florida, is hereby authorized substantially as recommended 
hj the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 102, Eighty-
eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,986,000. 
The project for flood protection in southwest Dade County, Florida, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 20, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,903,000. 
SOUTH ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection on Bisoayne Bay, Florida, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 213, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,954,000. 
P H I L L I P P I CREEK BASIN, FI/)RIDA 
The project for flood control on Phillippi Creek, Florida, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 156, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,592,000. 
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
Comprehensive Plan 
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The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Missis-
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sippi RiveT, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), as 
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amended and modified, is hereby further modified and expanded to 
include the projects and plans substantially as recommended by the 
Chief of Engineers in House Documents Numbered 308 and 319, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $181,109,000, except 
that (1) any modified easements required in the improvement of the 
Birds Point-New Madrid, Missouri, Floodway shall be acquired as 
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provided by section 4 of the Act of May 15, 1928, (2) the pumping 
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plant in the Red River backwater area shall be operated and main- 
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tained by the Corps of Engineers, (3) the recommendations of the 
Bureau of the Budget shall apply with respect to improvements for 
fish and wildlife, and (4) the requirement of local cooperation for congr°e'^s*° 
the improvements in the St. Francis Basin, Arkansas and Missouri, 
shall be reviewed by the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, with particular reference to Federal and non-
Federal cost sharing, and he shall report results of such review to 
Congress within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
No appropriation made pursuant to the authorization contained in 
this paragraph shall be available for any project other than those 
set forth in House Documents Numbered 308 and 319, Eighty-eighth 
Congress. 
The project for the St. Francis River, Missouri and Arkansas, 
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within Drainage District No. 7, Poinsett County, Arkansas, is hereby 
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modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the fixation. 
Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 57, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,372,000. 
General Projects 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Grand Isle and 
Vicinity, Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Docu-
ment Numbered 184, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$5,500,000. _ 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Morgan City and 
Vicinity, Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 167, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,049,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection on Lake Pontchartrain, 
Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 231, Eighty-ninth Congress, except that the recommendations 
of the Secretary of the Army in that document shall apply with 
respect to the Seabrook Lock feature of the project. 
The estimated 
cost is $56,235,000. 
OUACHITA RIVER 
BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Ouachita River at Monroe, 
Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document 
Numbered 328, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$520,000. 
RED RIVER 
BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Bayou Bodcau and tributaries, 
Arkansas and Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 203, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $1,524,000. 
The project for Caddo Dam and Reservoir, Louisiana, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers, as modified by the Secretary of the Army, in 
Senate Document Numbered 39, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,934,000. 
The project for Sanders, Big Pine, and Collier Creeks, Texas, as 
authorized in the Act of October 23, 1962 (76 Stat. 1187), is hereby 
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modified in order to provide for a highway crossing Pat Mayse Reser-
voir to replace the present FM Highway 1499 across Sanders Creek, 
at an estimated cost of $310,000. Such crossing shall be constructed 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision 
of the Chief of Engineers in accordance with such plans as may be 
recommended by the Chief of Engineers. 
GULF OF MEXICO 
The project for flood protection on the Buffalo Bayou and tribu-
taries, White Oak Bayou, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 169, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,800,000. 
The project for flood protection on Highland Bayou, Texas, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 168, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,500,000. 
The project for flood protection on Taylors Bayou, Texas, is hereiby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers, as modified by the Secretary of the Army, in 
House Document Numbered 206, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $5,004,000. 
RIO GRANDE BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Rio Grande at El Paso, 
Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the rec-
ommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 207, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $12,493,000. 
ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN 
Comprehensive Plan 
Modification. 
The multiple-purpose plan for improvement of Arkansas River and 
tributaries, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of July 24, 1946, 
60 Stat. 635. 
j^g amended, is hereby modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army 
acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide replacement outfall 
facilities for the Kansas Street outfall sewer in the city of Pine Bluff, 
Arkansas, including such new pumping facilities as may be necessary, 
at the most economical Federal expense, but including in the Federal 
expense the reasonable capitalized cost of operation and maintenance 
of the pumping facilities over the cost of pumping now required in 
the existing system. 
General Projects 
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas River at Las Ani-
mas, Colorado, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 165, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$1,541,000. 
The project for flood protection on Lee Creek, Arkansas and Okla-
homa, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
270, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $10,000,000. 
The project for flood protection at Little Rock, Arkansas, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 55, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $363,000. 
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The project for flood protection on the Arkansas Eiver at Great 
Bend, Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 182, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$4,030,000. 
The project for establishment of a national wildlife refuge at the 
John Redmond Dam and Reservoir, Grand (Neosho) River, Kansas, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
27, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $730,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Walnut River, Kansas, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 232, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $66,036,000. 
The project for the Shidler Dam and Reservoir, Salt Creek, Okla-
homa, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
242, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,150,000. 
The project for flood protection on Crutcho Creek, Oklahoma, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 47, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,801,000. 
The project for Trinidad Dam on Purgatoire River, Colorado, House c^o'"''^^'^ °^"'' 
Document Numbered 325, Eighty-fourth Congress, authorized by the 
project modi-
Flood Control Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 297) is hereby modified to provide "^/2"st"at i 
tha^t in lieu of the local cooperation recommended in paragraph 2(a) 
of the report of the Chief of Engineers dated July 22,1954, published 
in said document, local interests shall maintain the channel of Purga-
toire River through the city of Trinidad. 
The conditions set forth in 
paragraphs 2(b) and 2(c) of said report shall be applicable to the 
project. 
The John Martin Reservoir project (formerly known as Caddoa ReservJlirrSjio. 
Reservoir), Arkansas River, Colorado, as authorized by the Acit of 
project modi-' 
June 22,1936 (49 Stat. 1570), is modified to authorize and direct the fi^«"°"-
Chief of Engineers to use not to exceed ten thousand acre-feet of 
reservoir flood control storage space for the purpose of establishing 
and maintaining a permanent pool for fish and wildlife and recrea-
tional purposes, at such times as storage space may not be available 
for such permanent pool within the conservation pool as defined in 
article I I I F, Arkansas River compact (63 Stat. 145) except that— 
(1) The State of Colorado shall purchase and make available 
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any water rights necessary under State law to establish and there-
after maintain the permanent pool. 
(2) The rights of irrigators in Colorado and Kansas to those 
waters available to them under the terms of the Arkansas River 
compact and under the laws of their respective States shall not 
be diminished or impaired by anything contained in this para-
graph. 
(3) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed so as to give 
any preference to the permanent pool over other project purposes. 
(4) No permanent pool as hereiin defined shall be maintained 
except upon written terms and conditions acceptable and agreed 
to (A) by the Chief of Engineers in the interest of flood control, 
and (B) by the Colorado State Engineer, the Arkansas River 
Compact Administration, and the Cmorado Water Conservation 
Board, in the interest of establishing, maintaining, and operating 
tlie permanent pool for recreational and fish and wildlife purposes. 
(5) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed so as to limit 
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the authority of the Chief of Engineers to operate John Martin 
Reservoir for the primary purposes of the prevention of floods 
and the preservation of life and property. 
MISSOURI RIVEK BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Big Creek at Hays, Kansas, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 22, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,702,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Little Nemaha River and 
tributaries, Nebraska, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 160, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $1,524,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Big Sioux River and tribu-
taries, Iowa and South Dakota, is hereby authorized substantially as 
recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 199, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,400,000, 
except that such portion of the project as relates to the area above 
the city limits of Sioux City, Iowa, shall be compatible with a flsh 
and wildlife mitigation plan and also a flood control plan for the 
upper basin of the Big Sioux River, both to be approved by the States 
of Iowa and South Dakota. 
The project for flood protection on the James River and tributaries. 
North Dakota, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 266, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,083,000. _ 
The project for flood control on the Fishing River and tributaries, 
Missouri, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 281, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,260,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Chariton and Little Chariton 
Rivers and tributaries, Iowa and Missouri, is hereby authorized sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers and the Secretary of the Army in House Document Num-
bered 238, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,167,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Grand River and tributaries, 
Missouri and Iowa, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 241, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
Restriction. 
$218,009,000. Nothlug lu this Act shall be construed as authorizing 
the construction of Linneus Reservoir on Locust Creek, St. Catherine 
Reservoir on East Yellow Creek, the Honey Creek-No Creek local pro-
tection works, nor hydroelectric power facilities at Pattonsburg Reser-
voir on Grand River; the Secretary of the Army shall conduct a 
review of such reservoirs, local protection works, and hydroelectric 
power facilities, at an estimated cost of $75,000, and the funds author-
ized by this paragraph for project planning are authorized to be used 
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fo^ ^uch review. The Secretary shall submit to Congress, at the earli-
est practical date, a new feasibility report on such projects based 
upon such review. 
The projedt for flood protection on the Platte River and tributaries, 
Missouri and Iowa, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 262, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$26,889,000. 
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The project for flood protection on the Sun Kiver at Great Falls, 
Montana, authorized by section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1958 
(72 Stat. 297; Public Law 85-500) is hereby modified to waive the 
requirement that local interests contribute in cash 2.16 per centum 
of the actual construction cost of all items of work provided by the 
United States. 
OHIO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Char'tiers Creek, Pennsylvania, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 302, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $12,207,000. 
The project for flood protection on Sandy Lick Creek at Du Bois, 
Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 185, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$1,654,000. 
The project for the Hocking Eiver, Ohio, in the vicinity of Athens. 
Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
287, Eight5''-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,520,000. 
The project for the Lincoln, Clifty Creek, and Patoka Dams and 
Reservoirs, Wabash River, Indiana and Illinois, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 202, Eighty-ninth Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $72,900,000. 
The project for the Lafayette and Big Pine Dams and Reservoirs, 
Wabash River, Indiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate 
Document Numbered 29, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $44,800,000. 
The project for the Rowlesburg Dam and Reservoir, Cheat River, 
West Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 243, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$133,548,000: Promded, That the power features of this project shall 
not be undertaken until such time as the Federal Power Commission 
has completed action on any applications that may be pending before 
that agency for private development of the pumped-storage facility 
of the project: Provided 
further^ That should the Federal Power 
Commission act in the affirmative on any pending applications, the 
authority for such project shall not include Federal power features 
and the estimated cost of such project shall be $88,402,000: And pro-
vided further^ That in the event the Federal Power Commission dis-
misses any pending applications, Federal construction of such 
pumped-storage power facilities is hereby authorized and approved. 
The project for the Martins Fork Reservoir, Upper Cumberland 
River Basin, Kentucky, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 244, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $4,860,000. 
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The Yatesville, Paintsville, and Panther Creek Reservoir projects 
and the Martin, Kentucky, local protection project on the Big Sandy 
River and Tug and Levisa Forks of Kentucky, West Virginia, and 
Virginia, are hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 246, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $51,491,000. 
Prior to initiation of construction the Secretary of the Army shall 
prepare an a.nalysis of benefits and costs of the proposed projects, 
Sun River, 
Mont. 
Project modi-
fication. 
Rowlesburg Dam 
and Reservoir, 
W. Va. 
Power features, 
restrictions. 
Analysis of 
costs, etc. 
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including such reformulation as may be necessary to comply with the 
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Federal Water Project Recreation Act. 
RED RIVER o r THE NORTH BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Roseau River, Minnesota, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 282, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,550,000. 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection at East Saint Louis and vicinity, 
Illinois (East Side levee and sanitary district), is hereby authorized 
substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 329, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $6,180,000. 
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The project for the Kaskaskia River, Illinois, authorized by the 
'project'modi- 
Flood Coutrol Act of 1958 (Public Law 500, Eighty-fifth Congress), 
fication. 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
7 2 Stat. 310. 
House Documeut Numbered 232, Eighty-fifth Congress, is hereby 
modified substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 351, Eighty-eighth Congress, to provide 
for the deletion from the items of local cooperation the requirement 
of a cash contribution due to changed land use, at an estimated 
increased Federal cost of $3,498,000, if local interests make a cash 
contribution of an amount equal to the full cost of acquisition of 
flowage easements in those lands which are no longer needed for con-
struction, operation, and maintenance of Carlyle Reservoir. 
The project for the Wood River Drainage and Levee District, 
Madison County, Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 150, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $179,000. 
The project for Ames Dam and Reservoir, Skunk River, Iowa, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers, as modified by the Secretary of the 
Army, in House Document Numbered 267, Eighty-ninth Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $12,893,000. 
The projects for flood protedtion at Marshalltown and Waterloo on 
the Iowa and Cedar Rivers, Iowa, are hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 166, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $17,570,000. 
The project for the Zumbro River, Minnesota, is hereby authorized 
substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 246, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $975,000. 
The project for the Big Stone Lake and Whetstone River, Minne-
sota and South Dakota, is hereby authorized substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 579, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, and House Document Numbered 193, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,885,000. 
fver Tt'r^ 
'^^^ project on the Des Moines River for flood protection of Des 
'project'^modi- 
Molues, lowa, House Document Numbered 651, Seventy-eighth Con-
fication. 
gress, authorized by the Act of December 22, 1944 (58 Stat. 887), is 
hereby modified to eliminate the requirement recommended in para-
graph 10(a) (2) of the report of the Chief of Engineers dated Decein-
ber 13, 1943, that local interests bear the expense of repairs and provi-
sion of gates on existing drains. 
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GREAT LAKES BASIN 
The project for flood control and navigation on the Chagrin Kiver, 
Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
35, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,200,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Grand River at and in the 
vicinity of Grandville, Michigan, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 157, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,373,000. 
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Little Colorado River at and 
in the vicinity of Winslow, Arizona, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
Senate Document Numbered 63, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $2,775,000. 
GILA RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Indian Bend Wash, Maricopa 
County, Arizona, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 303, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $7,250,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Santa Rosa Wash, Arizona, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 189, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,430,000, except that 
the development of recreation and fish and wildlife facilities shall be 
in accordance with the Federal Water Project Recreation Act. 
The project for flood protection at Phoenix, Arizona, and vicinity, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 216, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $58,310,000. 
EEL RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Eel River, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 234, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,732,000. 
SACRAMENTO RIVER BASIN 
The project for the New Bullards Bar Dam and Reservoir, Yuba 
River, California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 180, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$8,979,000._ 
The project for the Lakeport Dam and Reservoir with supplemental 
channel improvements, Scotts Creek, Cache Creek Basin, California, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 259, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,360,000. 
Ante, 
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 
The project for flood protection on Sonoma Creek, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 224, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,400,000. 
The project for the Napa River, California, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 222, Eighty-ninth Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $14,950,000. 
WHITEWATER RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Tahquitz Creek, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 223, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, except that the amount of local contribution 
required due to enhancement of land shall be reduced by the amount 
of contribution determined on lands under Indian ownership at the 
time of project authorization and not subject to taxation due to 
Federal statutory restrictions. The amount of contribution on this 
basis is presently estimated at $508,000. 
The estimated cost is 
$3,442,000. 
SANTA ANA RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Lytle and Warm Creeks, San 
Bernardino County, California, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
Senate Document Numbered 53, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $9,750,000. 
SAN DIEGO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on San Diego River (Mission 
Valley), California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 212, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$14,600,000, except that the Secretary of the Army may reimburse 
local interests for the expenditure of funds used to construct such 
portions of the project as approved by the Chief of Engineers and con-
structed under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. 
COLUMBIA RIVER 
BASIN 
The projects for the Lower Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek 
dams and reservoirs, Grande Ronde River and tributaries, Oregon, 
are hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
280, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,440,000. The 
Chief of Engineers shall construct, operate, and maintain such projects. 
The project for flood protection on Willow Creek, Oregon, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 233, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,680,000. 
The project for acquisition of additional lands for waterfowl man-
agement at John Day Lock and Dam, Oregon and Washington, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 28, 
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Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $706,000, except that 
the parcels of land, in Oregon, between the Columbia Eiver and the 
management area boundary within sections 3, 4, 10, and 11 of Town-
ship 4 North, Range 25 East, Willamette Meridian, as shown on plate 
1 of Senate Document Numbered 28, Eighty-ninth Congress, esti-
mated at 611.02 acres, shall not be part of the management area, and 
the Secretary of the Army is authorized to purchase such additional 
lands in sections 22, 27, 29, and 30, Township 5 North, Eange 26 
East, Willamette Meridian, outside the present indicated manage-
ment area boundary on plate 1, as he determines necessary to replace 
the lands so excluded. 
SEC. 205. That the flood control project for the Scioto River, Ohio, 
^scioto River, 
authorized in section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1962, is hereby 
project modi-
modified to authorize the construction of the local protection works fication. 
at Chillicothe, Ohio, at such time as the reservoirs on Alum, Mill, 
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Big Darby, and Deer Creeks are under construction. 
In the event 
the Mill Creek and Alum Creek Reservoirs are constructed by an 
agency other than the Federal Government, the Federal Government 
shall not construct such local protection works at Chillicothe, Ohio, 
until said agency shall furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary 
of the Army that (1) it will provide flood control storage in those 
reservoirs equivalent to that proposed for the Federal reservoir proj-
ects, as authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1962, in accordance 
with the plan set forth in House Document Numbered 587, Eighty-
seventh Congress, and (2) that such reservoirs shall be operated for 
flood control in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secre-
tary of the Army. 
SEC. 206, (a) That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized ^^^ ^i^air River, 
and directed to prepare under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, 
comprehensive 
a comprehensive plan for the development and efficient utilization of pi^"-
the water and related resources of the region drained by streams which 
discharge, within the State of Michigan, into the Saint Clair River, 
Lake Saint Clair, the Detroit River and Lake Erie. Such plan may 
provide for importation of water from points not located within the 
region as defined above. 
(b) Said comprehensive plan shall be designed to meet the long-
range needs of the region for protection against floods, wise use of 
flood plain lands, improvement of navigation facilities, w^ater supplies 
for industrial and municipal purposes, outdoor recreational facilities, 
the enhancement and control of water quality, and related purposes; 
all with a view to encouraging and supporting the optimum long-
range economic development of the region and enhancing the welfare 
of its people. 
SEC. 207. That the project for flood protection on the Minnesota ^MinnesotaRiver, 
River at Mankato and North Mankato, Minnesota, authorized in sec- 
project modi. 
tion 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-500, 72 fi'^^tion. 
Stat. 297) is hereby modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army 
^^ stat„ 310. 
to credit local interests against their required contribution to such 
project for any work necessitated by extreme high water done by 
such interests on such project between April 1, 1965, and February 1, 
1966, if he approves such work as being in accordance with such 
project as authorized. 
SEC. 208. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and ^ZlTyV°''''°^ 
directed to cause surveys for flood control and allied purposes, includ- 
Authorization. 
ing 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 localities specifically named 
in this section. After the regular or formal reports made on any 
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[79 STAT. 
survey authorized by this section are submitted to Congress, no sup-
plemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless 
authorized by law except that the Secretary of the Army may cause 
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^ 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. 
Watersheds of streams in the North Atlantic region draining north-
ward in New York toward the Saint Lawrence River below the inter-
national boundary and draining directly into the Atlantic Ocean 
above the Virginia-North Carolina State line with respect to a frame-
work plan for developing the water resources of the region. 
All streams flowing into the sounds of North Carolina between Cape 
Lookout and the Virginia line except those portions of the Neuse, 
Pamlico, and Roanoke Rivers above the estuarine reaches. 
Watersheds of streams in the South Atlantic region draining 
directly to the Atlantic Ocean below the Virginia-North Carolina State 
line and draining directly into the Gulf of Mexico east of Lake Pont-
chartrain with respect to a framework plan for developing the water 
resources of the region. 
The Rio Grande and its tributaries with respect to a framework 
plan for flood control and other purposes. 
Watersheds of streams, washes, lakes, and their tributaries, which 
drain areas of the great basin region of Oregon, California, Nevada, 
Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming with respect to a framework plan for 
flood control and other purposes. 
The Colorado River and tributaries above Lees Ferry, Arizona, with 
respect to a framework plan for flood control and other purposes. 
The Colorado River and tributaries below Lees Ferry, Arizona, 
with respect to a framework plan for flood control and other purposes. 
Watersheds of streams in the Pacific Northwest region which drain 
directly into the Pacific Ocean along the coastlines of Washington 
and Oregon with respect to a framework plan for developing the 
water resources of the region. 
Watersheds of streams in California which drain directly into the 
Pacific Ocean and of streams, washes, lakes, and their tributaries, 
which drain areas in the eastern portion of the California region with 
respect to a framework plan for developing the water resources of 
the region. 
Kaneohe-Kailua area, Oahu, Hawaii. 
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana (water supply). 
Boyer River, Iowa. 
Keokuk, Iowa. 
Mississippi River, north of Dubuque, Iowa. 
Black Hawk Creek, Iowa. 
Mount Vernon, Indiana. 
Orange Lake Basin, Florida. 
Mayfield Creek, Kentucky. 
Hatchie River and tributaries, Tennessee and Mississippi. 
Spoon River, Illinois. 
Grand (Neosho) River, Oklahoma and Kansas (including naviga-
tion). 
Verdigris River, Kansas. 
Verdigris River, Oklahoma and Kansas (including navigation). 
Arkansas River and tributaries at and above Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
Sanderson, Texas. 
Abbeville, South Carolina. 
All streams which drain directly to Pacific Ocean from San Mateo 
County, California. 
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Big Mineral Creek, Texas, particularly with reference to construc-
tion of a highway bridge. 
Irondequoit Creek, New York, and tributaries, including Aliens 
Creek, New York. 
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California to determine ad-
visability of protection work against storm and tidal waves. 
SEC. 209. Notwithstanding the first proviso in section 201 of the 
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flood control, and for other purposes", approved May 17, 1950 (64 
Stat. 163), the authorization in section 204 of such Act of projects for ^o^te.'^^^ ^° ^
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local protection on the Yakima River at Ellensburg, Washington, shall 
expire on June 10, 1970, unless local interests shall before such date 
furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the 
required local cooperation in such project will be furnished. 
SEC. 210. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of ^
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Roads. 
forth in the provisions of their contract numbered DA-41-443-eng-
939 with Hill County, Texas, which are subject to flooding; such roads 
being a part of the Whitney Dam and Reservoir project, Whitney, 
Texas, authorized by the Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944, 
ss stat. 899. 
at an estimated cost of $130,000. 
SEC. 211. (a) The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed j ^ ^ ^ " " " fed'chu 
to convey to the Tennessee Society for Crippled Children and Adults, dren "nd Iduits'' 
Incorporated, subject to the provisions of this section, all of the right, inc 
title, and interest of the United States in and to that portion of the 
conveyance. 
tract of land lying above elevation 454 feet mean sea level now occu-
pied by such Society at the Old Hickory lock and dam, Cumberland 
River, Tennessee, under a lease executed by the Secretary of the Army 
and dated February 10,1958. 
(b) The conveyance authorized by this section shall be made upon 
payment to the United States of the fair market value of the property 
as determined by the Secretary of the Army, and upon such terms, 
conditions, reservations, and restrictions as he shall deem necessary 
to protect the interests of the United States. In determining the fair 
market value of the property, the Secretary shall exclude the value 
of any improvements made by or at the expense of the Tennessee 
Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Incorporated. 
(c) The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident of the con-
veyance authorized by this section shall be borne by the Tennessee 
Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Incorporated. 
(d) Title to the property authorized to be conveyed by this sec- Restriction. 
tion shall revert to the United States, which shall have the right of 
immediate entry thereon, if the Tennessee Society for Crippled Chil-
dren and Adults, Incorporated, shall ever cease to use such property 
for recreation and camping purposes. 
SEC. 212. The authorized Justice Reservoir on the Guyandot River, 
R- D. Baitey 
West Virginia, hereafter shall be known and designated as the R. D. ^^^elJgnatZ'n^^' 
Bailey Reservoir. 
Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or 
other paper of the United States in which the authorized Justice 
Reservoir is referred to shall be held to refer to such reservoir as the 
R. D. Bailey Reservoir. 
SEC. 213. In recognition of the flood control accomplishments of 
ro e^ct^^wash'^^^'^ 
the water resource project proposed to be constructed on Calispell 
cost'contribu-
Creek, Washington, by the Pend Oreille County Public Utility Dis- 'ion. 
trict Number One, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated a 
monetary contribution toward the construction cost of such project 
and the amount of such contribution shall be determined by the 
Secretary of the Army, subject to a finding by him approved by the 
President, of economic justification for allocation of the amount of 
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33 u s e 709. 
New York. 
Water utiliza-
tion, etc. 
Comprehensive 
plan. 
Reports to 
Congress. 
16 u s e 460d-l. 
San Francisco 
Bay, Calif. 
Water quality 
control, study. 
Rivers and har-
bors projects, etc. 
Local coopera-
tion requirements. 
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Appropriation. 
Eel River, 
Calif. 
protective work 
costs, reimburse-
ment. 
flood control, such, funds to be administered by the Secretary of the 
Army. 
Prior to making the monetary contribution or any part 
thereof, the Secretary of the Army and the Pend Oreille County 
Public Utility District Number One, shall have entered into an agree-
ment providing for operation of the proposed project in such manner 
as will produce the flood control benefits upon which the monetary 
contribution is predicated, and such operation of the project for flood 
control shall be in accordance with rules prescribed by the Secretary 
of the Army pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the Flood 
Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 890). 
Unless construction of the 
project is undertaken within three years from the date of enactment 
of this section, the authority for the monetary contribution con-
tained herein shall expire. 
SEC. 214. The Secretaiy of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, is authorized to cooperate with the State of New York, 
political subdivisions thereof, and appropriate agencies and instru-
mentalities thereof, and with other departments, agencies, and instru-
mentalities of the United States, in the preparation of comprehensive 
plans for the development, utilization, and conservation of the water 
and related resources of drainage basins within the State of New 
York, and to submit to Congress reports and recommendations with 
respect to appropriate participation by the Department of the Army 
in carrying out such plans. 
SEC. 215. The Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
Army to modify certain leases entered into for the provision of 
recreation facilities at reservoir areas", approved September 14, 1961 
(75 Stat. 509), is hereby amended by striking out "before November 1, 
1956,". 
SEC. 216. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause to be made, under the direction of the Chief of Engi-
neers, an investigation and study of San Francisco Bay, California, 
including San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay, and other adjacent bays and 
tributaries thereto, with a view toward determining the feasibility of, 
and extent of Federal interest in, measures for waste disposal and 
water quality control and allied purposes. 
SEC. 217. (a) In the prosecution of projects for river's and harbors 
and other waterways for the benefit of navigation, the control of 
destructive flood waters, hurricane protection, beach erosion control, 
and for other pui^poses, authorized to be prosecuted under the direc-
tion of the Secretary of the Army under the supeiTision of the Chief 
of Engineers in accordance with plans adopted and authorized by the 
Congress, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress, that 
whenever such projects are located wholly or paitially within an area 
which is eligible for financial assistance under the Public Works and 
Economic Development Act of 1965, the Secretary of Commerce is 
authorized to purchase evidences of indebtedness and to make loans 
for a period not exceeding fifty years to enable responsible local 
interests to meet the requirements of local cooperation pertaining to 
contributions toward the cost of construction of such projects within 
such areas. 
(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
section, not to exceed $10,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1966, and for each fiscal year thereafter through and 
including the fiscal year ending June 30,1970. 
SEC. 218. The Secretai-y of the Anny shall reimburse any common 
carrier by railroad for the cost of protective works constructed by 
such carrier during the years 1%5 and 1966 along the banks of the 
Eel River, California, to deter recurrence of damage to such banks 
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by floods or high waters, but such reimbursement shall not exceed 
$3,000,000. 
SEC. 219. The Chief of Engineers, under the supervision of the 
Secretary of the Army, is authorized to accept orders from other Fed-
eral departments and agencies for w"ork or services and to perform 
all or any part of such work or services by contract. 
SEC. 220. Section 206(b) of the Flood Control Act of 1960 (33 information 
U.S.C. 709a) is amended by striking out "$1,000,000" and inserting ^°7Tsta*t'°5oo 
in lieu thereof "$2,500,000". 
SEC. 221. The Joanna Dam proposed for construction at or near 
ciarence cannon 
mile 63 of the Salt River near Joanna, Missouri, and the Joanna MO!" ^" 
eservoir, 
Eeservoir to be created by such dam, authorized to be constructed by 
Designation. 
section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 1180), shall 
be known and designated hereafter as the Clarence Cannon Dam and 
Reservoir. 
Any law, regulation, map, document, or record of the 
United States in which such dam and reservoir are referred to as the 
Joanna Dam and Reservoir shall be held to refer to such dam and 
reservoir as the Clarence Cannon Dam and Reservoir. 
SEC. 222. Title I I of this Act may be cited as the "Flood Control 
citation of 
Act of 1965". 
title. 
TITLE III—RIVERS AND HARBORS 
River and Har-
bor Act of 1965. 
SEC. 301. Tlie following works of improvement of rivers and har-
bors and other waterways for navigation, flood control, and other 
purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the 
Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans and subject to the 
conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective 
reports hereinafter designated. 
The provisions of section 1 of the 
River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945 (Public Law Num-
bered 14, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall govern with 
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respect to projects authorized in this title; and the procedures therein 
set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of 
improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and 
purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full. 
NAVIGATION 
Weymouth-Fore and Town Rivers, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: Massachusetts. 
House Document Numbered 247, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $12,500,000; 
Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: Senate Document 
Rhode island. 
Numbered 93, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$13,900,000; 
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New York and New Jersey Channels-Entrance to Kill Van KuU 
from Upper New York Bay: House Document Numbered 108, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,581,000; 
New York Harbor, New York (Anchorage Areas) : Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 17, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$44,852,000; 
Shrewsbury River, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 274, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,090,000; 
Tred Avon River, Talbot County, Maryland: House Document 
Numbered 225, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$323,000; 
New Jerse^y. 
Maryland. 
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Washington 
Metropolitan Area. 
Virginia. 
North Carolina. 
Georgia. 
Florida. 
Alabama. 
Louisiana. 
Michigan. 
Ohio. 
Potomac and Anacostia Rivers—Removal of Drift in the Washing-
ton Metropolitan Area: House Document Numbered 286, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, maintenance; 
Channel to Newport News and Norfolk Harbor, Hampton Roads, 
Virginia: House Document Numbered 143, Eighty-ninth Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $7,095,000; 
Channel to Newport News, Norfolk Harbor, and Thimble Shoal 
Channel, Virginia: House Document Numbered 187, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $25,600,000; 
Hampton Creek, Virginia: House Document Numbered 201, Eighty-
ninth Congress, modification of items of local cooperation; 
Cape Fear River, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 252, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,510,000; 
Savannah Harbor, Georgia: House Documents Numbered 226 and 
263, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,569,000. 
The 
plan recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 263, Eighty-ninth Congress, shall include facilities to miti-
gate damages to presently improved areas southeast of the Savannah 
Wildlife Refuge at an estimated additional cost of $40,000. The Chief 
of Engineers may include additional facilities to mitigate damages to 
additional lands southeast of the Savannah Wildlife Refuge if he 
determines them to be necessary and justified, at an estimated addi-
tional cost of $60,000. All such facilities to mitigate damages shall 
be maintained by local interests. 
Jacksonville Harbor, Florida: House Document Numbered 214, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,484,000; 
Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida: House Document Numbered 74, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,104,000; 
Broward County and Hillsboro Inlet, Florida: House Document 
Numbered 91, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$1,093,000; 
East Pass Channel from the Gulf of Mexico into Choctawhatchee 
Bay, Florida: House Document Numbered 194, Eighty-eighth Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $1,151,000; 
Perdido Pass Channel, Alabama: Senate Document Numbered 94, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $625,000; 
Bayou La Batre, Alabama: House Document Numbered 327, Eighty-
eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $262,000; 
Mermentau River, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 239, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,690,000; 
Alpena Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 151, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $806,000. In order 
to compensate for existing low water levels in Lake Huron, an addi-
tional increment of one foot in channel depth is hereby authorized; 
Frankfort Harbor, Michigan: Senate Document Numbered 16, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $237,000; 
Lexington Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 301, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $570,000, except that 
the modified recommendations of the Chief of Engineers and the 
Secretary of the Army, contained in letter of April 5, 1965, from the 
Department of the Army to the Committee on Public Works of the 
United States Senate, shall apply with respect to recreational fishing 
facilities on the main breakwater; 
Saginaw River, Michigan: House Document Numbered 240, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $437,000; 
Cedar River Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 248, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $664,000; 
Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 269, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,840,000; 
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Kocky River Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 352, '^^^°' 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $235,000; 
The project for Lorain Harbor, Ohio, authorized in section 101 of 
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the River and Harbor Act of 1960 (Public Law 86-645; 74 Stat. 480) prJJfct 
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is hereby modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting 
through the Chief of Engineers, to construct such bank stabilization 
works at cut numbered 1 as may be necessary in his discretion to keep 
the navigation channel in its proper alinement at an estimated addi-
tional cost of $1,600,000. Local interests shall contribute to the cost 
of the project an amount equal to the value of the land on the date of 
the original authorization of this project that would have been required 
for cut numbered 1, but for this modification. 
West Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 245, Eighty-eighth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $544,000 ; 
Indiana Harbor, Indiana: House Document Numbered 227, Eighty- 
indiana-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $96,000; 
Burns Waterway Harbor, Indiana: House Document Numbered 160, ^^bo"^ v/aterway 
Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $25,000,000. The state reimburse. 
Secretary of the Army may reimburse the State of Indiana for the "^"*-
expenditure of funds used to construct such portions of the project as 
approved by the Chief of Engineers and constructed under the super-
vision of the Chief of Engineers. Unless construction of the project 
is initiated within three years from the date of enactment of this Act, 
the authority to reimburse the State of Indiana contained in this 
paragraph shall expire. The State of Indiana shall furnish assurance 
satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that water and air pollution 
sources will be controlled to the maximum extent feasible in order to 
minimize any adverse effects on public recreational areas in the general 
vicinity of the Harbor. 
No appropriation is authorized to be made 
for the construction of this project until the Indiana Dunes National 
Lakeshore has been voted upon by both Houses of Congress during the 
same Congress. 
Chocolate Bayou, Texas: House Document Numbered 217, Eighty- 
Texas. 
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,254,000; 
Houston Ship Channel (Greens Bayou), Texas: House Document 
Numbered 257, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$470,p00; 
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and tributaries. 
276, Eighty-ninth Congress, including navigation, except that the 
recommendations of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, 
dated March 14, 1963, shall apply, and there is hereby authorized 
$83,000,000 for initiation and partial accomplishment of the project. 
Prior to expenditure of any funds for construction of those features 
Reevaiuation 
designed exclusively for navigation, the Chief of Engineers shall sub- ^^P"^* *° *-°"" 
mit to the Congress a reevaiuation based upon current criteria. 
San Francisco Bay to Stockton, California: House Document Num- 
California. 
bered 208, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $46,853,000. 
The works for wavewash protection within the limits of the modified 
San Joaquin River navigation project shall be repaired or restored 
by the United States as determined to be necessary by the Secretary 
of the Army over the life of the project. 
Crescent City Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 
264, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,980,000; 
Bodega Bay, California: House Document Numbered 106, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $853,000; 
Port San Luis, San Luis Obispo Harbor, California: House Docu-
ment Numbered 148, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$6,360,000; 
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Oceanside Har-
bor, Calif. 
Oregon. 
Washington. 
Oceanside Harbor, Calil'ornia: House Document Numbered 76, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, maintenance. The Secretary of the Army is 
authorized to reimburse local interests for any work doile by such 
interests on such project after August 1, 1965, if he approves such 
work as being in accordance with the project as otherwise authorized. 
Port Orford, Oregon: Senate Document Numbered 62, Eighty-
eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $696,000; 
Chetco River, Oregon: Senate Document Numbered 21, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,308,000; 
Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: Senate Document Numbered 43, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,000,000; 
Edmonds Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 147, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, maintenance; 
Coasts of the Hawaiian Islands, harbors for light-draft vessels, 
Hawaii: House Document Numbered 353, Eighty-eighth Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $4,737,000; 
Honokahau Harbor, Hawaii: House Document Numbered 68, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $680,000; 
Honolulu Harbor and Barbers Point Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii: House 
Document Numbered 93, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $9,928,000; 
Kawaihae Harbor, Hawaii: House Document Numbered 75, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,291,000; 
Rhode Island. 
New Jersey. 
South Carolina. 
Florida, 
Illinois. 
Hawaii. 
Aquatic plant 
control project. 
33 u s e 610. 
BEACH EROSION 
Cliff Walk, Newport, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 
228, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $340,000; 
Perth Amboy, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 186, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $82,000; 
Atlantic City, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 325, 
Eighty-eighth Congress, periodic nourishment; 
Hunting Island Beach, South Carolina: House Document Num-
bered 323, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an estimated cost of $319,000; 
Duval County, Florida: House Document Numbered 273, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,266,000; 
Fort Pierce, Florida: House Document Numbered 84, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $220,000; 
Evanston, Illinois: House Document Numbered 159, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $392,000; 
Haleiwa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii: House Document Numbered 107, 
Eighty^-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $572,000; 
Waikiki Beach, Hawaii: House Document Nmnbered 104, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,490,000. 
SEC. 302. Section 104 of the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (72 
Stat. 297, 300), as amended by section 104 of the River and Harbor 
Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 1173, 1180), is hereby further amended to read 
as follows: 
"SEC. 104. (a) There is hereby authorized a comprehensive pro-
gram to provide for control and progressive eradication of water-
hyacinth, alligatorweed, Eurasian water milfoil, and other obnoxious 
aquatic plant growths, from the navigable waters, tributary streams, 
connecting channels, and other allied waters of the United States, 
in the combined interest of navigation, flood control, drainage, agri-
culture, fish and wildlife conservation, public health, and related 
purposes, including continued research for development of the most 
effective and economic control measures, to be administered by the 
Chief of Engineers, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, 
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in cooperation with other Federal and State agencies. Local interests 
shall agree to hold and save the United States free from claims thalt 
may occur from control operations and to participate to the extent of 
30 per centum of the cost of such operations. Costs for research and 
planning undertaken pursuant to the authorities of this section shall 
be borne fully by the Federal Government. 
"(b) There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts, not 
in excess of $5,000,000 annually, as may be necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this section. Any such funds employed for control 
operations shall be allocated by the Chief of Engineers on a priority 
basis, based upon the urgency and need of each area, and the avail-
ability of local funds." 
SEC. 303. The consent of Congress is hereby granted for the pur-
poses of section 9 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 401), to 
the State of Pennsylvania, to construct a dam on the Susquehanna 
River, downstream from the Bainbridge Street Bridge at Sunbury, 
Pennsylvania. 
SEC. 304. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause surveys to be made at the following locations and 
subject to all applicable provisions of section 110 of the River and 
Harbor Act of 1950: 
Jonesport Harbor, Maine. 
Blue Hill Harbor, Maine. 
Great and Little Bays and their tributaries, New Hampshire, and 
adjoining tributaries of the Piscataqua River, New Hampshire and 
Maine, with a view to determining the advisability of providing 
improvements in the interest of navigation and allied purposes. 
Popponesset Bay, Massachusetts. 
Niagara River, New York, with respect to nature and extent of 
measures necessary to preserve and enhance the scenic beanty of the 
American Falls. 
Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway: Investigation and study 
of means of extending the navigation season on the waterways at an 
estimated cost not to exceed $75,000. Report to include a full and 
complete investigation and study of waterway deicing systems, includ-
ing a review of any previous pertinent reports by the Department of 
the Army, any available information from any of the other Depart-
ments of the Government, and waterw^ay deicing methods in use by 
private concerns and foreign governments, for the purpose of deter-
mining the practicability, means, and economic justification for extend-
ing the navigation season on the Great Lakes (including connecting 
channels and harbors) and the Saint Lawrence Seaway by eliminating 
ice conditions to the extent possible. The Chief of Engineers may 
submit such interim reports as may be deemed advisable, and shall sub-
mit his final reports, together with his recommendations for such 
legislation and administrative actions as he may deem advisable, not 
later than two years after funds are made available for the study. 
Lake Dauterive and Chareton Floodgate, Louisiana. 
Dickinson Bayou, Texas. 
Manchester Harbor, Washington. 
Gulfport Harbor, Mississippi. 
Calumet River, Illinois. 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, from about mile 29 West of Harvey 
Lock to U.S. Highway No. 90 in vicinity of Boutte, Louisiana. 
Intracoastal Waterway from the Caloosahatchee River to the With-
lacoochee River, Florida, with a view to determining the advisability 
of modifying the project, with particular reference to provision for a 
side channel or connecting channel improvement through Cross Bayou 
Appropriation. 
Susquehanna 
River dam. Pa. 
Construction 
authorization. 
30 Stat. 1151. 
Surveys, author-
ization. 
64 Stat. 168. 
Contents of 
reports. 
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76 Stat. 1174. 
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East River, 
N.Y., nonnaviga-
ble. 
River Raisin, 
Mich., nonnavi-
gable. 
Remedial works. 
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to Old Tampa Bay, in the vicinity of Howard Frankland Bridge, for 
navigation, flood control, and related purposes. 
San Francisco County, California (beach erosion). 
Lake Michigan Shoreline, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (beach 
erosion). 
Indian Eiver County, Florida (beach erosion). 
Marquette County, Michigan (comprehensive). 
SEC. 305. The first proviso in the paragraph which begins "James 
River, Virginia:" in section 101 of the River and Harbor Act of 1962 
(Public Law 87-874) is amended by striking out "after a period of 
five years from the d.ate of approval of this Act unless the Governor 
of Virginia has endorsed the project within that time" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "October 23, 1971, unless the Governor of Virginia 
has endorsed the project by that date". 
SFX:. 306. Section 107 of the River and Harbor Act of 1948 (62 Stat. 
1174) is amended by striking out "$5,000" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"$22,000". 
SEC. 307. That portion of the East River, in New York County, 
State of New York, lying between the south line of East Seventeenth 
Street, extended eastwardly, the United States pierhead line as it 
existed on July 1, 1965, and the south line of East Thirtieth Street, 
extended eastwardly, is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of 
the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the 
laws of the United States. 
SEC. 308. The old channel of the River Raisin in Monroe County, 
Michigan, lying between the Monroe Harbor range front light and 
Raisin Point, its entrance into Lake Erie, is declared to be not a 
navigable stream of the United States within the meaning of the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, and the consent of 
Congress is hereby given for the filling in of the old channel by the 
riparian owners on such channel. 
SEC. 309. Section 111 of the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (72 
Stat. 303) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 111. Whenever, during the construction or reconstruction of 
any navigation, flood control, or related water development project 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Engi-
neers determines that any structure or facility owned by an agency of 
government and utilized in the performance of a governmental func-
tion should be protected, altered, reconstructed, relocated, or replaced 
to meet the requirements of navigation or flood control, or both; or to 
preserve the safety or integrity of such facility when its safety or 
usefulness is determined by the Chief of Engineers to be adversely 
affected or threatened by the project, the Chief of Engineers may, if 
lie deems such action to be in the public interest, enter into a contract 
providing for (1) the payment from appropriations made for the 
construction or maintenance of such project, of the reasonable cost of 
replacing, relocating, or reconstructing such facility to such standard 
as he deems reasonable but not to exceed the minimum standard of 
the State or political subdivision for the same type of facility involved, 
except that if the existing: facility exceeds the minimum standard of 
the State or political subdivision, the Chief of Engineers may provide 
a facility of comparable standard, or (2) the payment of a lump sum 
representing the estimated reasonable cost thereof. 
This section shall 
not be construed as modifying any existing or future requirement of 
local cooperation, or as indicating a policy that local interests shall 
not hereafter be required to assume costs of modifying such facilities. 
The provisions of this section may be applied to projects hereafter 
authorized and to those heretofore authorized but not completed as 
of July 3, 1958, and notwithstanding the navigation servitude vested 
Calumet Harbor 
and River, 111.-
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in the United States, they may be applied to such structures or facil-
ities occupying the beds of navigable waters of the United States." 
SEC. 310. (a)(1) Subsection (a) of section 107 of the Kiver and 
Harbor Act of 1960 (33 U.S.C. 577) is amended by striking out 
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"$2,000,000" and insertmg in lieu thereof "$10,000,000". 
(2) Subsection (b) of such section 107 is amended bv striking out 
"$200,000" and insertmg in lieu thereof "$500,000". 
(b) Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing Federal 
participation in the cost of protecting the shores of publicly owned 
property", approved August 13, 1946, as amended (33 U.S.C. 426g), 
76 stat, uyg. 
IS amended (1) by striking out "$3,000,000" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "$10,000,000", and (2) by striking out "$400,000" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "$500,000". 
(c) The amendments made by this section shall not apply to any 
project under contract for construction on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 311. The project for Calumet Harbor and River, Illinois and 
Indiana, as authorized by section 101 of the River and Harbor Act ind. 
of 1962 (76 Stat. 1173), is modified in order to authorize the Chief of j.^^J^^^'^* '"°'^^-
Engineers, at his discretion, under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Army, to provide at Federal cost (1) such protection for the Elgin, 
Joliet, and Eastern Railway bridge over the Calumet River, Chicago, 
Illinois, as is necessary to permit dredging of the full width of the 
south draw to the depth of twenty-seven feet, (2) such temporary 
protection for the center pier and the south abutment of the New 
York, Chicago, and Saint Louis Railroad bridge (Nickel Plate) as is 
necessary to permit dredging of the full width of the south bridge 
draw to the depth of twenty-seven feet prior to its replacement, and 
(3) such modification of the channel limits as is necessary to insure full 
use of each such draw. 
SEC. 312. (a) The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief 33^^?^^^^''^''^ ^^^ 
of Engineers, is authorized and directed to make a complete investiga- 
wat'er utilization 
tion and study of water utilization and control of the Chesapeake Bay study. 
Basin, including the waters of the Baltimore Plarbor and including, 
but not limited to, the following: navigation, fisheries, flood contrw, 
control of noxious weeds, water pK)llution, water quality control, beach 
erosion, and recreation. 
In order to carry out the purposes of this 
section, the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall 
construct, operate, and maintain in the State of Maryland a hydraulic 
model of the Chesapeake Bay Basin and associated technical center. 
Such model and center may be utilized, subject to such terms and con-
ditions as the Secretary deems necessary, by any department, agency, 
or instrumentality of the Federal Government or of the States of 
Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, in connection with any 
research, investigation, or study being carried on by them of any 
aspect of the Chesapeake Bay Basin. 
The study authorized by this 
section shall be given priority. 
(b) There is authorized to be appropriated 
not to exceed 
Appropriation. 
$6,000,000 to cariT out this section. 
SEC. 313. The Secretary of the Army shall transmit to the Com- 
Reports to con. 
mittees on Public Works of the Senate and the House of Represent- ^ut^e^es?"^ ''°'" 
atives not later than June 30, 1968, a suggested draft of legislation 
revising and codifying the general and permanent laws relating to 
civil works projects by the Corps of Engineers for navigation, beach 
erosion control, flood control, and related water resources develop-
ment. 
The Secretary shall also submit a report explaining the pro-
posed legislation, and making specific reference to each change in or 
omission of any provision of existing law. 
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of^stiTes^'forw^^er 
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resources projects, Engineers, shall make a study of the need for, and the feasibility of, 
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the Federal Government reimbursing States, political subdivisions 
thereof, and other public entities, for expenditures incurred by them 
in connection with authorized projects for improvement of rivers and 
harbors and other waterways for navigation, flood control, hurricane 
protection, beach erosion control, and other water resources develop-
ment purposes, to the extent that such expenditures are incurred after 
the initiation of the survey studies which form the basis for such 
Report to 
authorizcd projects. The Secretary shall report to Congress, not later 
ongress. 
^^^^ Januar^ 31, 1967, the results of such study together with his 
recommendations in connection therewith. 
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Making appropriations for certain civil functions administered by the Depart-
ment of Defense, the Panama Canal, certain agencies of the Department of 
the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway 
Development Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Delaware River 
Basin Commission, and the Interoceanic Canal Commission, for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1966, and for other purposes. 
Public Works 
Appropriation Act, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
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' sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1966, for certain civil 
functions administered by the Department of Defense, the Panama 
Canal, certain agencies of the Department of the Interior, the Atomic 
Energy Commission, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Cor-
poration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Delaware River Basin 
Commission, and the Interoceanic Canal Commission, and for other 
purposes, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
CEMETERIAL, EXPENSES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary cemeterial expenses as authorized by law, including 
maintenance, operation, and improvement of national cemeteries, and 
purchase of headstones and markers for unmarked graves; purchase 
of five passenger motor vehicles, of which three shall be for replace-
ment only: maintenance of that portion of Congressional Cemetery to 
which the United States has title. Confederate burial places under 
the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, and graves used by