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 86-645 (H.R.7634), enacted 07/14/1960

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Public Law 86-645 
July 14, 1960 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 7634] 
Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works 
on rivers and harbors for navigation, 
flood 
control, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
River and Harbor United States of AmeHca in Congress assembled. 
Act of 1960. 
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TITLE I—KIVEES AND HARBORS 
SEC. 101. That the following works of improvement of rivers and 
harbors 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 thie 
conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective 
reports hereinafter designated: Provided^ That the provisions of 
59 Stat. 10. 
section 1 of the River and Harbor Act approved March 2,1945 (Pub-
lic Law Numbered 14, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall 
govern with respect to projects authorizedm this title; and the pro-
cedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports 
for works of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irri-
gation and purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set 
forth in full: 
NxWIGATION 
Maine. 
Eastport Harbor, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 98, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $595,000; 
Southwest Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 408, Eighty-
fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $240,000; 
Stonington Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 36, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $198,000; 
South Bristol Harbor, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 30, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $97,000; 
Wells Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 202, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $340,000; 
York Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 395, Eighty-sixth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $391,000; 
Pepperell Cove, Maine: House Document Numbered 284, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $170,000; 
New Hampshire, 
i^ye Harbor, New Hampshire: House Document Numbered 439, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $238,000; 
Massachusetts. 
Cotuit Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 142, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $320,000; 
co^nn°e'^ctic^it^"''^""^ 
Appouaug Cove, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 143, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $180,000; 
Little Narragansett Bay and Watch Hill Cove, Rhode Island and 
Connecticut: House Document Numbered 396, Eighty-sixth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $98,000; 
New York. 
Moriches and Shinecock Inlets, New York: House Document Num-
bered 126, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,858,000; 
MamaronecK Harbor (East Basin), New York: House Document 
Numbered 209, Eighty-sixth C o n g i ^ , at an estimated cost of 
$105,000; 
Delaware. 
Wilmlugton Harbor, Delaware: Senate Document Numbered 88, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $351,000; 
North Carolina. 
Qcracoke Inlet, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 408, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,623,000; 
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Siiem Creek, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: House Document 
Numbered 35, Eighty-six Congress, maintenance; 
Everglades Harbor, Florida: House Document Numbered 147, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $117,200; 
Gulf Coast Shrimp Boat Harbors, Florida: House Document Num-
bered 183, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $373,000; 
Bakers Haulover Inlet, Florida: House Document Numbered 189, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $239,000; 
Palm Beach Harbor, Lake Worth Inlet, Florida: House Document 
Numbered 283, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$4,980,000; 
Miami Harbor, Florida: Senate Document Numbered 71, Eighty-
fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,818,000; 
Little Pass, Clearwater Bay, Florida: House Document Numbered 
293, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $104,000; 
St. Marks Kiver, Florida: House Document Numbered 224, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,711,000; 
Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama, at 
Jackson lock and dam: House Document Numbered 50, Eighty-sixth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $120,000; 
Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: House Document Numbered 98, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, maintenance; 
Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: The Secretary of the Army is 
hereby authorized and directed to cause an immediate study to be 
made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of the project 
authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954 (Public Law 790, 
Eighty-third Congress), House Document Numbered 98, Eighty-sixth 
Congress, to determine if further modification is warranted, and 
further modification of the project is hereby authorized as determined 
to be justified by the Secretary of the Army with the approval of 
the President, unless within the first period of 60 calendar days of 
continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the report 
is submitted to it such report is disapproved by Congress. 
Biloxi Harbor, Mississippi: House Document Numbered 271, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $326,000; 
Bayou Lafourche and Lafourche—Jump Waterway, Louisiana: 
House Document Numbered 112, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $4,664,000; 
Bayous Petit Anse, Tigre, and Carlin, Louisiana: Senate Document 
Numbered 70, Eighty-fifth Congress, at an estimated cost of $106,000; 
Freshwater Bayou, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 435, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,485,000; 
Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 
436, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $16,992,000; 
Texas City Channel, Texas: House Document Numbered 427, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,605,000; 
Brazos Island Harbor, Texas: House Document Numbered 428, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,381,000; 
Ouachita and Black Rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana: Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 112, Eightjr-sixth Congress, in lieu of the navigation 
project authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1950, Public Law 
516, Eighty-first Congress, Senate Document Numbered 117, Eighty-
first Congress, at an estimated cost of $43,550,000; 
South Carolina. 
Florida. 
Alabama. 
Mississippi. 
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Louisiana. 
Texas, 
Arkansas 
Louisiana. 
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64 Stat. 165. 
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Kentucky. 
68 Stat. 1248, 
M i s s i s s i p p i 
River. 
Minnesota. 
Mi c h i g a n 
Wisconsin. 
and 
Minnesota 
Wisconsin. 
Michigan. 
Illinois 
diana. 
Ohio. 
and In-
Pennsylvania. 
In addition to previous authorizations,-there is hereby authorized 
the completion of the Barkley Pam project in Kentucky, authorized 
by the River and Harbor Act of 1954, at an estimated additional cost 
of $146,000,000: Provided^ That the Chief of Engineers is hereby 
authorized to relocate the Illinois Central Railroad, as required by the 
construction of said project, in such manner as to eliminate and pre-
vent interference with and disturbance of municipal and private facili-
ties in Lyon County, Kentucky, not otherwise affected by the construc-
tion of the project, substantially in accordance with alinement "D" 
shown on the plans on file in the Office of the Chief of Engineers; 
Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis, Min-
nesota at I)ubuque, Iowa: House Document;Numbered 56, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $38,000; 
Red Wing Harbor, Minnesota: House Document Numbered 32, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $170,400; 
Menominee Harbor and River, Michigan and Wisconsin: House 
Document Numbered 113, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $715,000; 
Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 285, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $38,000; 
Kewaunee Harbor, Wisconsin: Senate Document Numbered 19, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $81,900; 
Two Harbors, Minnesota: House Document Numbered 146, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $162,000; 
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: House Docu-
ment Numbered 150, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,364,000; 
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota and Wisconsin: House Docu-
ment Numbered 196, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,513,000; 
Ashland Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 165, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,495,000; 
Presque Isle Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 145, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $215,300; 
Marquette Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 154, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $236,000; 
Manistee Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 358, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,735,000,; 
Detroit River, Trenton Channel, Michigan: House Document Num-
bered 319, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,570,000; 
Calumet Harbor, Illinois and Indiana: House Document Numbered 
149, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,240,000; 
Indiana Harbor, Indiana: House Document Numbered 195, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an esjtimated cost of $974,000; 
Toledo Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 153, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $14,684,000; 
Sandusky Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 144, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,800,000; 
Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 152, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,486,000; 
Lorain Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 166, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $19,323,000; 
Fairport Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 347, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,768,000; 
Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 148, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,077,000; 
Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania: House Document Numbered 199, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,729,000; 
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Buffalo Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 151, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,352,000; 
Rochester Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 409, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,445,000; 
Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors (West Basin), California: 
House Document Numbered 401, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,768,000; 
Monterey Harbor (Mo'nterey Bay), California: House Document 
Numbered 219, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,989,000; 
Noyo River and Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 
289, Eighty-sixth Congress^, at an estimated cost of $370,000; 
Snohomish River (Everett Harbor), Washington: House Docu-
ment Numbered 348, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,011,000; 
Kahului Harbor, Island of Maui, Hawaii: House Document Num-
bered 109, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $944,500; 
Hilo Harbor, Hawaii: The Secretary of the Army is hereby author-
ized and directed to cause an immediate study to be made under the 
direction of the Chief of Engineers of a sea-wall to protect against 
tidal waves and excessive high tides, and the project is hereby author-
ized as determined to be justified by the Secretary of the Army with 
the approval of the President, unless within the first period of 60 
calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date 
on which the report is submitted to it such report is disapproved by 
Congress. 
BEACH EROSION CONTROL 
Wessagussett Beach, Weymouth, Massachusetts: House Document 
Numbered 334, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$132,000; 
Pemberton Point to Cape Cod Canal, Massachusetts: House Docu-
ment Numbered 272, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$139,300; 
Cape Cod Canal to Proviiicetown, Massachusetts: House Docu-
ment Numbered 404, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $178,000; 
South Kingstown and Westerly, Rhode Island: House Document 
Numbered 30, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $140,300; 
Atlantic Coast of Long Island, Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, 
New York: House Document Numbered 425, Eighty-sixth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $19^00,000; 
New Jersey Coast from Barnegat Inlet to Cape May Canal, New 
Jersey: House Document Numbered 208, Eighty-sixth Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $1,714,000; 
Key West, Florida: House Document Numbered 413, Eighty-fifth 
Congress, at an estimated cost o'f $231,200. 
Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania: House Document 
Numbered 397, Eighty-sixth Congress, periodic nourishment; 
Orange County, Newport Bay to San Mateo Creek, California: 
House Document Numbered 398, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $256,000. 
SEC. 102. That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to 
reimburse local interests for such work done by them, on the beach 
erosion projects authorized in section 101, subsequent to the initiation 
of the cooperative studies which form the basis for the projects: 
Provided^ That the work which may have been done on these projects 
is approved by the Chief of Engineers as being in accordance with the 
projects hereby adopted: Provided further^ That such reimbursement 
New York. 
California. 
Washington. 
Hawaii. 
Hilo Harbor. 
Study. 
Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island. 
New York, 
New Jersey. 
Florida. 
Pennsylvania, 
California. 
Reimbursement. 
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Shore e r o s i o n 
studies. 
33 u s e 426. 
69 Stat. 394. 
Ship Canal 
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thority, Fla. 
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ance. 
shall be subject to appropriations applicable thereto or funds available 
therefor and shall not take precedence over other pending projects of 
higher priority for improvements. 
SEC. 103. That the last paragraph of section 2 of the River and 
Harbor Act of July 3,1930 (46 Stat. 933 at 945) pertaining to coopera-
tive shore erosion studies and to the Beach Erosion Board, is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
"The Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Army, is authorized "and directed to 
cause investigations and studies to be made in cooperation with the 
appropriate agencieB of the various States on the Atlantic, Pacific, 
and gulf coasts and on the Great Lakes, and of the States of Alaska 
and Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the possessions of 
the United States, with a view to devising effective means of prevent-
ing erosion of the shores of coastal and lake waters by waves and 
currents; and any expenses incident and necessary thereto may be paid 
from funds appropriated for General Investigations, Civil Functions, 
Department of the Army: Provided, That the Department of the 
Army may release to the appropriate cooperating agencies informa-
tion obtained by these investigations and studies prior to the formal 
transmission of reports to Congress: Provided further, That no money 
shall be expended under authority of this section in any State which 
does not provide for cooperation with the agents of the United States 
and contribute to the project such funds or services as the Secretary 
of the Army may deem appropriate and require; that there shall be 
organized under the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, a 
Board of seven members, of whom four shall be officers of the Corps 
of Engineers and three shall be civilian engineers selected by the Chief 
of Engineers with regard to their special fitness in the field of beach 
erosion and shore protection. 
The Board will furnish such technical 
assistance as may be directed by the Chief of Engineers in the conduct 
of such studies as may be undertaken and will review the reports of 
the investigations made. 
In the consideration of such studies as may 
be referred to the Board by the Chief of Engineers, the Board shall, 
when it considers it necessary and with the sanction of the Chief of 
Engineers, make, as a board or through its members, personal exami-
nation of localities under investigation: Provided further, That the 
civilian members of the Poard may be paid at rates not to exceed $100 
a day for each day of attendance at Board meetings, not to exceed 
thirty days per annum, in addition to the traveling and other necessary 
expenses connected with their duties on the Board in accordance with 
the provisions of section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2)." 
SEC. 104. (a) That the Secretary of the Army is authorized and 
directed to donate and convey by quitclaim deed to the Ship Canal 
Authority of the State of Florida all of the right, title, and interest 
of the United States of America in and to— 
(1) lands in Putnam County, Florida, acquired by the United 
States of America by condemnation proceedings in the United 
States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Jack-
sonville Division, as case numbered 356 U.S.J. Civil; and (2) 
lands in Marion County, Florida, acquired by the United States 
of America by condemnation proceedings instituted in the United 
States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Ocala 
Division, as cases numbered 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 22, 
U.S. Ocala Civil, 
(b) It is intended hereby to authorize and direct the conveyance 
of all lands heretofore acquired by the United States with funds pro-
vided by the said authority for rights-of-way for a proposed ship 
canal across Florida. 
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(c) The conveyance authorized by this section shall be made without 
monetary consideration therefor but upon the conditions that the Ship 
Canal Authority of the State of Florida will, without cost to the 
United States: (1) when called upon by the Chief of Engineers. 
United States Army, to do so, reconvey to the United States, free of 
any encumbrances placed thereon during ownership by said authority, 
those lands conveyed pursuant to this section that are required for 
the Cross Florida Bar^e Canal; (2) relocate any roads, bridges, or 
utility lines constructed on or across such lands after the conveyance 
under this section by the United States, if the relocation thereof is 
required by the Chief of Engineers; (3) maintain and preserve 
improvements previously constructed upon the land by the Federal 
Government in a manner that will not increase the cost of the barge 
canal project; (4) hold the United States safe and free from anv 
damages resulting "from the aforementioned construction; and (5) 
devote the proceeds from sales of any lands conveyed to it under this 
section solely for the acquisition, for transfer to the United States 
free of cost, of any other lands required for the barge canal project. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed as a limitation on 
the rifi:ht of the Ship Canal Authority of the State of Florida to sell 
any of the lands that, in the opinion of the United States Army dis-
trict engineer at Jacksonville, Florida, will not be required for the 
Cross Florida Barge Canal. Any surveys or descriptions. required 
to permit the disposal of any such lands shall be paid for by the Ship 
Canal Authority of the State of Florida if desired by said authority 
prior to the appropriation of funds therefor by the Federal 
Government. 
(e) Nothing in this section shall, be construed as a waiver-of the 
obligation of the Ship Canal Authority of the State of Florida to 
(1) furnish, without cost to the United States, all lands, easements, 
and rights-of-way necessary for the construction of the Cross Florida 
Barge Canal as authorized by the Act of July 23,1942 (56 Stat. 703); 
(2) liold and save the United States free from any damages resulting 
from the construction of said barge canal; and (3) to take over, main-
tain and operate all highways, bridges, and roadways built in con-
nection with the said barge canal project. 
SEC. 105. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and di- stuiyf""'' 
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rected to cause an immediate study to be made under the direction 
of the Chief of Engineers of the project for improvement of the 
Missouri Eiver between Sioux City, Iowa, and the mouth, authorized 
by the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945, to determine 
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if modification is warranted to provide for a lake in the abandoned 
river channel of the Missouri River betAveen river miles 710 and 715 
for recreational purposes, by means of: (a) Construction of a levee 
extending along the left bank of the new channel to be constructed 
in the Middle Decatur Bend area of the Missouri River; and (b) con-
struction of hydraulic-fill closures at both ends of the old channel, 
and such modification is hereby authorized as determined to be justi-
fied by the Secretary of the Army with the approval of the President, 
unless within the first period of 60 calendar days of continuous ses-
sion of the Congress after the date on w^hich the report is submitted 
to it such report is disapproved by Congress. 
SEC. 106. The Corps of Engineers is authorized and directed to 
west Virginia. 
accept as a project feature the cost of necessary improvement of 
that section of West Virginia State Secondary Route 40/5 approxi-
mately eighty-five one-hundredths mile in length, from its junction 
\yith State Route 40 to its terminus near the Hildebrand lock and dam 
site on the Monongahela River in order to provide access thereto. 
This authority is provided with the understanding that this method 
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N o n-a uthorized 
projects. 
Allotments. 
Siirplus property, 
disposal. 
40 u s e 471 note. 
will provide necessary access to the project at the least expenditure of 
Federal funds, and further that the State of West Virginia will 
accept as its responsibility the future maintenance of the road. 
SEC. 107. (a) That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized 
to allot from any appropriations hereafter made for rivers and harbors 
not to exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year for the construction of 
small river and harbor imj)rovement projects not specifically author-
ized by Congress which will result in substantial benefits to naviga-
tion and which can be operated consistently with appropriate and 
economic use of the waters of the Nation for other purposes, when 
in the opinion of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable, if 
benefits aie in excess of the-cost. 
(b) Not more than $200,000 shall be allotted for the construction 
of a project under this section at any single locality and the amount 
allotted shall be sufficient to complete the Federal participation in the 
project under this section. 
(c) Lockl interests shall provide without cost to the United States 
all necessary lands, easements and rights-of-way for all projects to be 
constructed under the authority of this section. In addition, local 
interests may be required to hold and save the United States free from 
damages that may result from the construction and maintenance of 
the project and may be required to provide such additional local 
cooperation as the Chief of Engineers deems appropriate. A State, 
county, municipality or other responsible local entity shall give assur-
ance satisfactory to the Chief of Engineers that such conditions of 
cooperation as are rec[uired will be accomplished. 
(d) Non-Federal interests may be required to share in the cost of 
the project to the extent that the Chief of Engineers deems that such 
cost should not be borne by the Federal Government in view of the 
recreational or otherwise special or local nature of the project benefits. 
(e) Each project for which money is allotted under this section shall 
be complete in itself and not commit the United States to any addi-
tional improvement to insure its successful operation, other than rou-
tine maintenance^ and except as may result from the normal procedure 
applying to projects authorized after submission of survey reports, 
and projects constructed under the authority of this section shall be 
considered as authorized projects. 
(f) This section shall apply to, but not be limited to, the provision 
of low water access navigation channels from the existing channel of 
the Mississippi River to harbor areas heretofore or now established 
and located along the Mississippi River. 
SEC. 108. (a) That whenever the Secretary of the Army,, upon the 
recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, determines that notwith-
standing the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended, with respect to dis-
posal of surplus real property, (1) the development of public port 
or industrial facilities on land which is part of a water resource 
development project under his jurisdiction will be in the public 
interest; (2) that such development will not interfere with the opera-
tion and maintenance of the project; and (3) that disposition of the 
property for these purposes under this section will serve the objec-
tives of the project within which the land is located, he may convey 
the land by quitclaim deed to a State, political subdivision thereof, 
port district, port authority, or other body created by the State or 
through a compact between two or more States for the purpose of 
developing or encouraging the development of such facilities. 
In 
any case, where two or more political subdivisions thereof, or bodies 
created by, a State or group of States, seek to obtain the same land, 
the Secretary of the Army shall give preference to that political sub-
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division or body whose intended use of land will, in his opinion, best 
promote the purposes for which the project involved was authorized. 
(b) Any conveyance authorized by this section shall be made at the 
fair market value of the land, as determined by the Secretary of the 
Army, upon condition that the property shall be used for one of the 
purposes stated in the subsection (a) of this section only, and subject 
to such other conditions, reservations or restrictions as the Secretary 
may determine to be necessary for the development, maintenance, or 
operation of the project or otherwise in the public interest. 
(c) Prior to the conveyance of any land under the provisions of 
this section, the Secretary of the Army shall, in the manner he,, deems 
reasonable, ^ v e public notice of the proposed conveyance and' afford 
an opportunity to interested eligible bodies in the general vicinity of 
the land to apply for its purchase. 
(d) The Secretary of the Army may delegate any authority con-
ferred upon him by this section to any officer or employee of the 
Department of the Army. 
Any such officer or employee shall exer-
cise the authority so delegated under rules and regulations approved 
by the Secretary. 
(e) The proceeds from any conveyance made under the provisions 
of this section shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
surveys. 
directed to cause surveys to be made at the following named localities 
and subject to all applicable provisions of section 10 of the River and 
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Harbor Act of 1950: 
Prospect liarbor, Maine. 
Calf Island, between Roque Island Bluffs and Seawall Point, 
Maine. 
Green Harbor, Marshfield, Massachusetts. 
Nauset Harbor, Massachusetts. 
Eel Pond, Menauhant, Massachusetts. 
Pleasant Bay, Massachusetts. 
Rye Harbor (Playland Marina), New York. 
Sturgeon Creek, Middlesex County, Virginia. 
Beresford Creek, South Carolina. 
Channel across Santa Rosa Peninsula and Santa Rosa Island, 
Florida, to connect East Bay with Santa Rosa Sound and Little 
Sabine Bay with the Gulf of Mexico. 
Channel from vicinity of Avalon, Florida, to the waters of 
Escambia Bay. 
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. 
Washburn Harbor, Wisconsin. 
Little Bay De Noc, Michigan. 
Ship Canal between Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. 
Point Roberts, Washington. 
Deep-water harbor in the Maalaea Bay Area, Island of Maui, 
Hawaii. 
Deep-water harbor at Kahaluu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii. 
Coastal waters. State of Hawaii, investigation of sites for 
possible use as anchorage areas for handling of explosives; areas 
of investigation to be designated by such State's Governor's 
Advisory Committee on Explosives. 
SEC. 110. (a) That the project for a navigation channel in Saint 
Jones River, Delaware, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 
June 25,1910, insofar as said project relates to said stream upstream 
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from Lebanon, Delaware, be and the same is hereby abandoned. 
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(b) That Saint Jones Kiver upstream from Lebanon, Delaware, be, 
and the same is hereby, declared to be not navigable waters of the 
United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of 
the United States. 
(c) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is hereby ex-
pressly reserved. 
Short title. 
gjjc j^ j^l Title I of this Act may be cited as the "Eiver and Harbor 
Act of 1960". 
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TITLE I I ~ F L O O D CONTROL 
SEC. 201. That section 3 of the Act approved June 22,1936 (Public 
St 
a? ^ms^^^^' ^^ Law Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended by section 
2 of the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public Law Numbered 761, 
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, shall apply thereto, and except as otherwise provided 
by law^: Provided^ That the authorization for any flood-control project 
thoHziao^?" °^ ^"' liGrein adopted requiring local cooperation shall expire five years 
from the date on which local interests are notified in writing by the 
Department of the Armj'^ of the requirements of local cooperation, 
unless said interests shall within said time furnish assurances satis-
factory to the Secretary of the Army that the required cooperation 
will be furnished. 
sTstal'^sl?. 
^^^- ^^^- '^^^ provisions of section 1 of the Act of December 22, 
1944 (Public Law Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, second 
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 lor irrigation and purposes incidental thereto shall apply as if 
herein set forth in full, 
izfd"^'''*^ author- 
gj.Q^ 203. The following w^orks of improvement for the benefit of 
navigation and the control of destructive floodw^aters 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 re-
ports hereinafter designated and subject to the conditions set forth 
therein: Provided^ That the necessary plans, specifications, and pre-
liminary work may be prosecuted on any project authorized in this 
title with funds from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made 
for flood control so as to be ready for rapid inauguration of a con-
struction program: Provided further^ That the projects authorized 
herein shall be initiated as expeditiously and prosecuted as vigorously 
as may be consistent with budgetary requirements: And 
provided 
further^ That penstocks and other similar facilities adapted to pos-
sible 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 recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and the Federal 
Power Commission. 
BLACK.8T0NE RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Blackstone, Mill, and Peters 
Rivers, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, is hereby authorized sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 87, Eighty-fifth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $2,970,000. 
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THAMES RIVER BASIN 
The project for the West Thompson Reservoir on the Quinebaug 
River, Connecticut, is hereby authorized substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
41, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,010,000. 
CONNECTICUT RIVER BASIN 
The plan for flood protection on the Chicopee River, Massachu-
setts, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the rec-
ommendations of the Chief of Engineers in HouSe Document Num-
bered 434, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an* estimated cost of $5,180,000. 
No obligation shall be incurred for the cost of this project where the 
flood control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Army (except costs of planning, design, 
and acquisition of water rights), unless the State or one or more other 
non-Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement in ad-
vance to assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs of 
planning, design, and acquisition of water rights) of the completed 
project allocated to the production of local flood control benefits, pay-
able either as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract pro-
viding for repayment with interest within 50 years. The actual cost, 
or fair market value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work 
performed or services rendered prior to completion of construction 
of the project, which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be 
included in the share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal 
entity. 
The project for flood protection on the Westfield River, Massachu-
setts, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
109, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,240,000. 
No 
obligation shall be incurred for the cost of this project where the flood 
control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, as determined 
by the Secretary of the Army ^except costs of planning, design, and 
acquisition of water rights), unless th« State or one or more other 
non-Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement in advance 
to assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs of planning, 
design, and acquisition of water rights) of the completed project allo-
cated to the production of local flood control benefits, payable either 
as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract providing for repay-
ment with interest within 50 years. The actual cost, or fair market 
value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work performed or serv-
ices rendered prior to completion of construction of the project, which 
are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be included in the share 
of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
The plan for flood control and related purposes on the Farmington 
River, Connecticut and Massachusetts, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engi-
neers in House Document Numbered 443, Eighty-sixth Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $12,052,000. No obligation shall be incurred 
for the cost of this project where the flood control benefits are exclu-
sively for local flood control, as determined by the Secretary of the 
Army (except costs of planning, design, and acquisition of water 
rights), unless the State or one or more other non-Federal entities 
shall have entered into an agreement in advance to assume at least 20 
per centum of the cost (except costs of planning, design, and acquisi-
tion of water rights) of the completed project allocated to the pro-
duction of local flood control benefits, payable either as construction 
proceeds or pursuant to a contract providing for repayment with inter-
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est within 50 years. The actual cost, or fair market value of lands, 
easements, rights-of-way, and work performed or services rendered 
prior to completion of construction of the project, which are furnished 
by a non-Federal entity, shall be included in the share of the cost to 
be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
PAWCATUCK, CONNECTICUT 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Pawcatuck, Connecti-
cut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
212, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated Federal cost of $409,000. 
HOUSATONIC RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood control dams and reservoirs on the Naugatuck 
River, Connecticut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 372, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$10,230,000. 
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Stamford, Connecti-
cut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
210, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated Federal cost of $3,030,000 
for construction, and at an estimated Federal cost of maintenance and 
operation of $31,000 annually. 
CENTRAL AND.SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $23,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
central and southern Florida comprehensive plan for flood control 
6
2 Stat. 1176. 
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j othcr purposes approved in the Flood Control Act of 1948, and 
subsequent Acts of Congress, and such comprehensive plan is hereby 
modified to include the following: 
The project for canals, levees, and water control and drainage 
structures in the Nicodemus Slough area, Glades County, Florida, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers contained in Senate Document Num-
bered 53, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $318,000. 
That the levees around Lake Okeechobee, Florida, authorized by 
46 Stat. 9
2 5. 
the Rivers and Harbors Act approved July 3, 1930, and modified by 
6
2 Stat. 1176. 
^j^g Flood Coutrol Act approved June 30, 1948, and subsequent Acts, 
^Herbert Hoover shall be kuowu aud designated as the Herbert Hoover Dike, and any 
law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which 
such levees are referred to under any other name or designation shall 
be held to refer to such levees as the Herbert Hoover Dike. 
PEARL RIVER, MISSISSIPPI 
The project for flood protection on the Pearl River at Jackson, 
Mississippi, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 441, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,609,000. 
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LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Missis-
sippi Kiver, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534), as. 
« stat^. 534.^^^ 
amended and modifiedj is hereby further modified and expanded to 704. 
include the following items of work and the authorization for said 
project is increased accordingly: 
(a) In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby author-
ized to be appropriated the sum of $50,000,000 to provide for the con-
tinued prosecution of the channel improvement feature of the project. 
TRINITT RIVER BASIN 
The comprehensive plan for improvement of the Trinity Kiver and 
tributaries, Texas, as authorized by the Kiver and Harbor Act of 
^9 stat. lo. 
1945, is hereby modified to include the following projects: 
(a) The project for flood j)rot(Bction on Big Fossil Creek in the 
Richland Hills area, <Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 407, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,861,400. 
(b) Modification and extension of the Fort Worth Floodway on 
the West Fork of the Trinity Kiver and tributaries, at Fort Worth, 
Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the rec-
ommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 4t)2, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,241,000. 
GUADALUPE RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood control on Blieders Creek, Texas, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 180, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,060,000. 
BRAZOS RIVER BASIN, TEXAS 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $21,000,000," for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan for the Brazos River Basin authorized by the 
Flood Control Act of September 3,1954. 
^s stat. UAB. 
RED-OUACHITA RIVER BASIN 
The general plan for flood control and other purposes on Red River, 
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, below Denison Dam, 
Texas and Oklahoma, as authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, 
*
5
o stat. 641. 
and amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress, is 
hereby further modified to provide for additional improvements for 
flood control, drainage, and other purposes, substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers as follows: 
(a) McKinney Bayou, Arkansas and Texas: House Document 
Numbered 220, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$346,400. 
(b) Maniece Bayou, Arkansas: House Document Numbered 288, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $668,400. 
(c) East Point, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 406, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $273,000. No obliga-
tion shall be incurred for the cost of this project where the flood 
control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, as determined 
by the Secretary of the Army (except costs of planning, design, and 
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acquisition of water rights), unless tTie State or one or more other non-
Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement in advance to 
assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs of planning, 
design, and acquisition of water rights) of the completed project 
allocated to the production of local flood control benefits, payable 
eitlier as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract providing for 
repayment with interest within 50 years. 
The actual cost, or fair 
market value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work performed 
or services rendered prior to completion of construction of the project, 
which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be included in the 
share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
(d) Garland City, Arkansas: The Secretary of the Army is hereby 
authorized and directed to cause an immediate.study to be made under 
the direction of the Chief of Engineers of emergency bank protection 
at Garland City, Arkansas, and the project is hereby authorized as 
determined to be justified by the Secretary of the Army with the 
approval of the President, unless within the first period of 60 calendar 
days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which 
the report is submitted to it such report is disapproved by Congress. 
W H I T E RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $50,000,000, for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan for the White River Basin authorized by the 
52 Stat. 1218. 
Flood Coutrol Act of June 28, 1938, as amended and supplemented 
by subsequent Acts of Congress. 
Modification of the existing flood protection project for Village 
Creek, White River, and Mayberry Levee Districts, White River, 
Arkansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with plan 
1 as contained in Hoiise Document Numbered 225, Eighty-sixth Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $294,000: Provided^ That the Secretary 
of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to cause a restudy to 
be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of plan I I I 
as contained in the House Document Numbered 225, Eighty-sixth 
^tl°^ 
*° ^°"* Congress, and to report to Congress his findings thereon. 
ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN 
The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur-
52 Stat. 1218. 
poses for the Arkansas River Basin, approved by the Act of June 28, 
1938, as amended, and the multiple-purpose plan for the Arkansas 
River and tributaries, Arkansas and Oklahoma, approved by the 
60 Stat. 634. 
River and Harbor Act of July 24, 1946, as amended, are hereby fur-
ther amended to provide for the incorporation of the two pl&ns into 
a single plan of development: Provided^ That authorizations hereto-
fore, herein and hereafter made available for the Arkansas River 
Basin shall be applicable to the combined plan of development. 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $179,-
000,000 for prosecution of the combined plan of development for the 
Arkansas River Basin as herein authorized. 
RIO GRANDE BASIN 
The project for improvement of the Rio Grande Basin is hereby au-
thorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in 
Senate Document Numbered 94, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $58,300,000. 
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The approval granted above shall be subject to the following condi-
tions and limitations: 
Cochiti Keservoir, Galisteo Reservoir, and all other reservoirs con-
structed by the Corps of Engineers as a part of the Middle Rio Grande 
project will be operated solely for flood control and sediment control, 
as described below: 
(a) the outflow from Cochiti Reservoir during each spring flood 
and thereafter will be at the maximum rate of flow that can be carried 
at the time in the channel of Rio Grande through the middle valley 
without causing flooding of areas protected by levees or unreasonable 
damage to channel protective works: Provided^ That whenever during 
the months of July, August, September, and October, there is more 
than two hundred twelve thousand acre-feet of storage available for 
regulation of summer floods and the inflow to Cochiti Reservoir 
(exclusive of that portion of the inflow derived from upstream flood-
control storage) is less than one thousand five hundred cubic feet per 
second, no water will be withdrawn from storage in Cochiti Reservoir 
and the inflow derived from upstream flood-control storage will be 
retained in Cochiti Reservoir. 
(b) Releases of water from Galisteo Reservoir and Jemez Canvon 
Reservoir during the months of July, August, September, and October, 
will be limited to the amounts necessary to provide adequate capacity 
for control of subsequent summer floods; and such releases when made 
in these months, or thereafter, will be at the maximum rate practicable 
under the conditions at the time. 
(c) Subject to the foregoing, the storage of water in and the release 
of water from all reservoirs constructed by the Corps of Engineers as 
gart of the Middle Rio Grande project will be done as the interests of 
ood and sediment control may dictate: Provided^ That the Corps of 
Engineers will endeavor to avoid encroachment on the upper two 
hundred and twelve thdusand acre-feet of capacity in Cochiti Reser-
voir, and all reservoirs will be evacuated completely on or before March 
31 of each year: And provided further^ That when estimates of antici-
pated streamflow made by appropriate agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment indicate that the operation of reservoirs constructed as a part 
of the Middle Rio Grande project may affect the benefits accruing to 
New Mexico or Colorado, under the provisions of the eighth un-
numbered paragraph of article VI of the Rio Grande compact, re-
leases from such reservoirs shall be regulated to produce a flow of ten 
thousand cubic feet per second at Albuquerque, or such greater or 
lesser rate as may be determined by the Chief of Engineers at the time 
to be the maximum safe flow, whenever such operation shall be re-
quested by the Rio Grande compact commissioner for New Mexico or 
the commissioner for Colorado, or both, in writing prior to commence-
ment of such operation. 
(d) All reservoirs of the Middle Rio Grande project will be operated 
at all times in the manner described above in conformity with the Rio 
Grande compact, and no departure from the foregoing operation 
schedule will be made except with the advice and consent of the Rio 
Grande compact, and no departure from the foregoing operation 
schedule will be made except with the advice and consent of the Rio 
Grande Compact Commission: Provided^ That whenever the Corps of 
Engineers determines that an emergency exists affecting the safety 
of major structures or endangering life and shall so advise the Rio 
Grande Compact Commission in writing these rules of operation may 
be suspended during the period of and to the extent required by such 
emergency. 
(e) The foregoing regulations shall not apply to storage capacity 
which may be allocated to permanent pools for recreation and fish and 
Conditions 
a n d 
limitations. 
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[74 STAT. 
wildlife propagation: Provided, That the water required to fill and 
maintain such pools' is obtained from sources entirely outside the 
drainage basin of the Rio Grande. 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to 
be appropriated the sum of $12,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan for the Upper Mississippi River Basin, approved 
52 Stat. 1215. 
jj^ the Act of Juue 28, ,1938, as amended and supplemented by sub-
sequent Acts of Congress. 
The flood protection project on Redwood River at Marshall, Min-
nesota, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 417, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,252,000. 
The project for the Coralville Reservoir on Iowa River in Iowa, 
as authorized by the Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1215), is hereby 
modified in order to provide for a highway bridge across Coralville 
Reservoir at or near the Mehaffy site, such site to be mutually satis-
factory to the Secretary of the Army, the chief engineer, Iowa State 
Highway Commission, and the Board of Supervisors of Johnson 
County, Iowa, to replace the previously existing bridge crossing of 
Johnson County on County Road Y. 
Such bridge 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 
approved by the Chief of Engineers and the chief engineer, Iowa 
State Highway Commission: Provided, That prior to the award of 
any contract for the construction of the bridge or the approach roads 
authorized by this paragraph, local interests, acting through the Board 
of Supervisors of Johnson County, Iowa, shall contribute toward the 
cost of the construction of such bridge and approach roads such 
amounts as the Secretary of the Army shall determine to be equitable, 
and the United ^States shall pay all other costs of such bridge and 
approach roads. 
MISSOURI RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $207,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
comprenensive plan for the Missouri River Basin approved in the Act 
52 Stat. 1215. 
of June 28, 1938, as amended, and supplemented by subsequent Acts 
of Congress. 
The report of the Chief of Engineers on Wilson Dam and Reservoir, 
70 Stat. 126. 
Saline River, Kansas, submitted in compliance with Public Law 505, 
Eighty-fourth Congress, published as Senate Document Numbered 96, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, is hereby approved, and construction of the 
project as a unit of the comprenensive plan of improvement for the 
58 Stat. 887. 
Missouri River Basin authorized by the Flood Control Act approved 
December 22, 1944, is hereby authorized at an estimated cost of 
$18,081,000. 
The project for flood protection in the Gering and Mitchell Valleys, 
72 Stat, 312. 
Nebraska, authorized by the Flood Control Act of July 3,1958 (Public 
Law 500, Eighty-fifth Congress), in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 139, 
84th Congress, is hereby, modified to provide for such revisions in 
project scope and purposes due to changed conditions as may be found 
necessary by the Chief of Engineers, to provide needed protection in 
Gering Valley: Provided^ 'Hiat construction shall not be initiated 
until me Chief of En^neers shall submit a feasibility report, which 
shall be coordinated with the Soil Conservation Service, for the ap-
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49S 
proval of the President which shall set forth the plan of improvement, 
its economic justification, and his recommendations for local coopera-
tion except that construction shall not be initiated until the expiration 
of the first period of 60 calendar days of continuous session of the Con-
gress following the date on which such report is transmitted to it but 
only if between the date of transmittal and the expiration of such 60-
day period such report is not disapproved by Congress. 
The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to 
cause an immediate study to be made under the direction of the Chief 
of Engineers of the project for flood protection at Sioux Falls, 
South Dakota, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved 
September 3, 1954, Public Law 780, Eighty-third Congress, in ac- 
68 stat. 1262. 
cordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 133, Eighty-fourth Congress, to deter-
mine whether extension of the authorized project to include flood 
protection in the reach between Western Avenue and Cherry Rock 
Dam, is justified^ and such modification is hereby authorized as deter-
mined to be justified by the Secretary of the Army with the approval 
of the President, unless within the first period of 60 calendar days 
of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the 
report is submitted to it such report is disapproved by Congress. 
The project for flood protection on Vermillion Eiver, South Da-
kota, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
426, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,010,000. 
No 
obligation shall be incurred for tKe cost of this project where the flood 
control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, as determined 
by the Secretary of the Army (except costs of planning, design, and 
acquisition of water rights), unless the State or one or more other 
non-Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement in advance 
to assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs of plan-
ning, design, and acquisition of water rights) of the completed proj-
ect allocated to the production of local flood control benefits, payable 
either as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract providing 
for repayment with interest within 50 years.' The actual cost, or fair 
market value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work performed 
or services rendered prior to completion of construction of the project, 
which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be included in the 
share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
That the Fort Randall Dam and Reservoir project, South Dakota, 
is modified to provide for construction of a free highway bridge over 
the Missouri River at an appropriate location west of Platte, South 
Dakota, 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 approved by the Chief of Engineers, in order to provide 
adequate crossing facilities over such river for highway traffic in the 
area and in replacement of the closure of the Wheeler Bridge by rea-
son of construction of said reservoir at a Federal cost not to exceed 
$4,500,000: Provided^ That local interests shall construct all necessary 
approaches to the bridge site, and provide without cost to the United 
States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary for construc-
tion of the bridge. 
The project for flood protection on Cheyenne River and tributaries. 
South Dakota and Wyoming, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 280, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $272,000. 
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OHIO RB'ER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Lynn Camp Creek at Corbin, 
Kentucky, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in the House Document 
Numbered 282, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$645,000. 
The project for flood control and allied purposes on Laurel River, 
Kentucky, is hereby authorized substantially m accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 413, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $21,-
900,000: Provided^ That construction of the project shall not be com-
menced until the agency designated to market the power has entered 
into an agreement which would insure that the power would be sold 
at rates sufficient to repay with interest within 50 years all costs al-
located to* power. 
The project for flood control and allied purposes on Little Sandy 
River, Kentucky, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 440, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $11,900,000. 
The project for flood protection on Connoquenessing Creek at 
Butler, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 110, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$1^58,700. 
The project for flood protection on Loyalhanna Creek, at Latrobe, 
Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 383, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,568,-
300. No obligation shall be incurred for the cost of this project where 
the flood control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, as 
determined by the Secretary of the Army (except costs of planning, 
design, and acquisition of water rights), unless the State or one or 
more other non-Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement 
in advance to assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs 
of planning, design, and acquisition of water rights) of the com-
pleted project allocated to the production of local flood control benefits, 
payable either as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract pro-
viding for repayment with interest within 50 years. The actual cost, 
or fair market value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, .and work 
performed or services rendered prior to completion of construction of 
the project, which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be 
included in the share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
The project for the North Fork Reservoir on the North Fork of 
Pound River, Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 184, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $3,681,000. 
The project for flood protection on the West Branch of the 
72 Stat. 313. 
Mahouiug River, Ohio, autnorized in Public Law 85-500, in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document 191, Eighty-fifth Congress, is hereby modified to provide 
that the entire local share of cost for water for pollution abatement 
and for municipal and industrial water supply purposes is $5,200,000, 
of which $3,230,000 will be paid in cash during construction, and the 
unpaid balance at the time the project is placed in useful operation, 
$1,970,000, may be paid jn cash at that time or repaid on an annual 
basis in accordance with the principles of title I I I of said Public Law 
85-600. 
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GREAT LAKES BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Cayuga Inlet at and in the 
vicinity of Ithaca, New York, is hereby authorized substantially as 
recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 204, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,950,000. 
The project for flood protection on Smokes Creek at and in the 
vicinity of Lackawanna, New York, is hereby authorizedsubstantially 
as recommended by the Chief of Engineers m H9use Document Num-
bered 200, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,974,000. 
GILA RIVER BASIN 
The plan of improvement for flood protection and allied purposes 
on the Gila and Salt Rivers, Gillespie Dam to McDowell Dam site, 
Arizona, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 279, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated Federal cost of 
$3,300,000. No obligation shall be incurred for the cost of this project 
where the flood control benefits are exclusively for local flood control, 
as determined by the Secretary of the Army (except costs of planning, 
design, and acquisition of water rights), unless the State or one or 
more other non-Federal entities shall have entered into an agreement 
in advance to assume at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs 
of planning, design, and acquisition of water rights) of the com-
pleted project allocated to the production of local flood control bene-
fits, payable either as construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract 
providing for repayment with interest within 50 years. 
The actual 
cost, or fair market value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work 
performed or services rendered prior to completion of construction 
of the project, which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be 
included in the share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
WHITEWATER RIVER BASIN, CALIFORNIA 
The project for flood protection on Tahchevah Creek at and in the 
vicinity of Palm Springs, California, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of En-
gineers in House Document Numbered 171, Eighty-sixth Congress, at 
an estimated Federal cost of $1,105,000: Provided^ That non-Federal 
interests shall bear 50 percent of the cost of the project including the 
cost of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations. 
MOJAVE RIVER ? A S I N 
The plan for flood control on the Mojave River, California, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 164, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,070,000. 
LOS ANGELES RIVEE BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $32,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan approved in the Act of August 18, 1941, as 
^s stat. 647. 
amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. 
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W A L N U T CREEK BASIN 
The plan for flood protection on Walnut Creek, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 76, Eighty-sixth Congress, 
at an estinqated cost of $17,980,000. 
SACRAMENTO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Sacramento River, Cali-
39 Stat. 948. 
fomia, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved March 1, 1917, 
as amended and modified by subsequent Acts of Congress, is further 
modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 103, Eighty-
sixth Congress, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
the sum of $14,240,000 for the prosecution of the initial phase of bank 
erosion control works and setback levees on the Sacramento River. 
LAS VEGAS W A S H , NEVADA 
The project for flood protection on Las Vegas Wash and tributaries, 
Nevada, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 405, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,410,000. 
GLEASON CREEK, NEVADA 
The project for flood protection on Gleason Creek, Nevada, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 388, Eighty-
sixth Congress, at an estimated cost of $450,000. No obligation shall 
be incurred for the cost of this project where the flood control benefits 
are exclusively for local flood control, as determined by the Secretary 
of the Army (except costs of planning, design, and acquisition of 
water rights), unless the State or one or more other non-Federal 
entities shall have entered into an agreement in advance to assume 
at least 20 per centum of the cost (except costs of planning, design, 
and acquisition of water rights) of the completed project allocated 
to the production of local flood control benefits, payable either as 
construction proceeds or pursuant to a contract providing for repay-
ment with interest within 50 years. The actual cost, or fair market 
value of lands, easements, rights-of-way, and work performed or 
services rendered prior to completion of construction of the project, 
which are furnished by a non-Federal entity, shall be included in the 
share of the cost to be borne by the non-Federal entity. 
GREAT 
SALT 
BASIN, 
UTAH 
The project for flood protection on the Salt Lake City Streams, 
Jordan River Basin, Utah, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 213, Eighty-sixth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $6,060,000. No obligation shall be incurred for the 
cost of this project where the flood control benefits are exclusively for 
local flood control, as determined by the Secretary of the Army 
(except costs of planning, design, and acquisition of water rights), 
unless the State or one or more other non-Federal entities shall have 
entered into an agreement in advance to assume at least 20 per centum 
of the cost (except costs of planning, design, and acquisition of water 
rights) of the completed project allocated to the production of local 
flood control benefits, payable either as construction proceeds or pur-
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suant to a contract providing for repayment with interest within 50 
years. 
The actual cost, or fair market value of lands, easements, 
rights-of-way, and w^ork performed or services rendered prior to com-
pletion of construction of the project, w^hich are furnished by a non-
Federal entity, shall be included in the share of the cost to be borne by 
the non-Federal entity. 
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $148,000,000 for the projects and plans 
for the Columbia River Basin, including the Willamette River Basin, 
authorized by the Flood Control Act of June 28,1938, and subsequent 
Acts of Congress, including the Flood Control Acts of May 17, 1950, 
September 3, 1954, and July 3, 1958, and these projects and plans are 
hereby modified to include: 
The project for construction of the Foster Reservoir on the South 
Santiam River, Willamette River Basin, Oregon, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 104, Eighty-sixth Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $17,340,000. 
SEC. 204. That, in recognition of the flood-control accomplishments 
of the multiple-purpose Merced River development including the 
Bagby, New Exchequer, and Snelling Dams and Reservoirs, proposed 
to be constructed on the Merced River by the Merced Irrigation 
District of California, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated 
a monetary contribution toward the construction cost of such develop-
ment and the amount of such contribution shall be determined by 
the Secretary of the Army in cooperation with the Merced Irrigation 
District, subject to a findino- by the Secretary of the Army, approved 
by the President, of economic justification for allocation of the amount 
of flood control, such funds to be administered by the Secretary of 
the Army: Provided^ That prior \,o making the monetary contribution 
or any part thereof, the Department of the Army and the Merced 
Irrigation District shall have entered into an agreement providing 
for operation of the dams and reservoirs in such manner as will pro-
duce the flood-control benefits upon which the monetary contribution 
is predicated, and such operation of the dams and reservoirs 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) : Provided further, That the funds 
appropriated under this authorization shall be administered by the 
Secretary of the Army in a manner which shall assure that the annual 
Federal contribution during the project construction period does not 
exceed the percentage of the annual expenditure for the dams and 
reservoirs which the total flood control contribution bears to the total 
cost of the dams and reservoirs: And provided further^ That, unless 
contraction of the development is undertaken within four years from 
the date of enactment of this Act, the authority for the monetary 
contribution contained herein shall expire. 
SEC. 205. That, in recognition of the flood control accomplishments 
of the multiple purpose dam and reservoir (or dams and reservoirs) 
proposed to be constructed on the Mokelumne River by the East Bay 
Municipal Utility District of Oakland, California, there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated a monetary contribution tow^ard the 
construction cost of such clam and reservoir (or dams and reservoirs) 
and the amount of such contribution shall be determined by the 
Secretary of the Army in cooperation with the East Bay Municipal 
Utility District, and the Secretary of the Interior, subject to a finding 
by the Secretary of the Army, approved by the President, of economic 
52 Stat. 1215. 
64 Stat. 170; 68 
Stat. 1248; 72 Stat. 
297. 
Merced River 
development. 
33 u s e 709. 
Mokelumne River 
dam. 
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[74 ST AT. 
justification for allocation of the amount of flood control, such funds 
to be administered by the Secretary of the Army: Provided, That the 
plan of improvement proposed by the East Bay Municipal Utility Dis-
trict will afford a degree of flood control which in the opinion of the 
Secretary of the Army is adequate for the Mokelumne Eiver as a part 
of the overall flood control program for the central valley: Provided 
further, That, prior to making the monetary contribution or an;^ part 
thereof, the Department of the Army and the East Bay Municipal 
Utilitj[ District shall have entered into an agreement providing for 
operation of the dam or dams in such manner as will produce the flood-
control benefits upon which the monetary contribution is predicated, 
and such operation of the dam or dams for flood control shall be in 
accordance with rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Army pursu-
33 use 709. 
ant to the provisions of section 7 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (54 
Stat. 890) : Provided further, That prior to making the monetary con-
tribution or any part thereof, the Department of the Army and the 
East Bay Municipal Utility District shall have entered into an agree-
ment to provide adequately for mitigation of damages to fish and wild-
life consistent with the other purposes of the project: And 
i^ovided 
further, That the funds appropriated under this authorization shall 
be administered bv the Secretary of the Army in a manner which 
shall assure that the annual Federal contribution dui-ing the project 
construction period does not exceed the percentage of the annual ex-
penditure for the dam and reservoir (or dams and reservoirs) which 
the total flood control contribution bears to the total cost of the dam 
and reservoir (or dams and reservoirs). 
•tf ^ •tirfi*"*"**' 
^^^' ^^^' (^) That, in recognition of the increasing use and develop-
ment of the flood plains of the rivers of the United States and of the 
need for information on flood hazards to serve as a guide to such 
development, and as a basis for avoiding future flood hazards by regu-
lation of use Dv States and municipalities, the Secretary of the Army, 
through the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, is hereby 
authorized to compile and disseminate information on floods and flood 
damages, including identification of areas subject to inundation by 
floods of various magnitudes and frequencies, and general criteria for 
guidance in the use of flood plain areas; and to provide engineering 
advice to local interests for their use in planning to ameliorate the 
flood hazard: Provided, That the necessar;^ surveys and studies will 
be made and such information and advice will be provided for specific 
localities only upon the request of a State or a responsible local govern-
mental agency and upon approval by the Chief of Engineers. 
(b) The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to allot, from 
any appropriations hereafter made for flood control, sums not to ex-
ceed $1,000,000 in anv one fiscal year for the compilation and dis-
semination of such information. 
rolid'' °^ public 
SEC. 207. (a) That whenever, in connection with the construction of 
any authorized flood control, navigation or multiple-purpose project 
for the development of water resources, the Chief of Engineers, under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army, determines it to be in the 
public interest to utilize existing public roads as a means of providing 
access to such projects during construction, he may, at his discretion, 
improve, reconstruct and maintain such roads and he may contract 
with the local authority having jurisdiction over the roads to ac-
complish the necessary work. The accomplishment of such work may 
be carried out with or without obtaining any interest in the land on 
which the road is located in accordance with mutual agreement be-
tween the parties: Provided, 
(1) That the Chief of Engineers deter-
mines that such work would result in a saving in Federal cost as op-
posed to the cost of providing a new access road at Federal expense, 
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(2) That, at the completion of construction, the Chief of Engineers 
will, if necessary, restore the road to at least as good condition as 
prior to the beginning of utilization for access during construction, and 
(3) That, at the completion of construction, the responsibility of the 
Chief of Engineers for improvement, reconstruction and maintenance 
shall cease. 
(h) That, for such water resources projects, under construction or 
to oe constructed, when the taking by the Federal Government of an 
existing public road necessitates replacement, the substitute provided 
will as nearly as practicable serve in the same manner and reasonably 
as well as the existing road. The Chief of Engineers is authorized 
to construct such substitute roads to design standards comparable to 
those of the State in which the road is located, for roads oi the same 
classification as the road being replaced. The traffic existing at the 
time of the taking shall be used m the determination of the classi-
fication. 
SEC. 208. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause surveys for flood control and allied purposes, in-
cluding channel and major drainage improvements, and flooas aggra-
vated by or due to wind or tidal effects, to be made under the direc-
tion of the Chief of Engineers, in drainage areas of the United States 
and its territorial possessions, which include the following-named 
localities: Provided, That after the regular or formal reports made, 
on any survey are submitted to Congress, no supplemental or addi-
tional report or estimate shall be made unless authorized by law 
except that the Secretary of the Army may cause a review of any 
examination or survey to be made and a report thereon submitted to 
Congress if such review is required by the national defense or by 
changed physical or economic conditions: Provided further, That the 
Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for 
the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this title 
until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by 
law: 
Ogunquit, York, Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Bidde-
ford, Saco, Old Orchard, Cape Elizabeth, Portland, and Phipps-
burg, and adjacent coastal areas, Maine. 
Patuxent River, Maryland. 
Pithlachascotee River, Masaryktown, Anclote River, Lake 
Tarponj Brooksville, and adjacent areas, Florida. 
Phillippi Creek, Florida. 
Indian Kiver and other streams draining into Indian Lake and 
Lake Michigan in the vicinity of Manistique, Michigan. 
Atherton Creek, San Mateo County, California. 
Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks, Contra Costa County, Cali-
fornia. 
Streams in Marin County, California, flowing into Richardson 
Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay, including Coyote Creek and 
Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio Creek. 
Island of Hawaii, State of Hawaii, construction of dikes, bar-
riers, or walls, to protect lives and property from lava flows result-
ing from volcanic eruption. 
Kahoma Stream, Island of Maui, Hawaii. 
SEC. 209. The Chief of Engineers, under the direction of the Secre-
tary of the Army, is authorized and directed to cause an investigation 
and study to be made, in cooperation with appropriate agencies of the 
State of Texas, with a view to devising effective means of accomplish-
ing the recharge and replenishment of the Edwards Underground 
F l o o d 
control, 
surveys. 
Edward* Under-
ground Reservoir. 
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[74 STAT. 
Reservoir as a part of plans for flood control and water conservation 
in the Nueces, San Antonio and Guadalupe River Basins of Texas: 
Provided^ That the State of Texas or its agencies contribute toward 
the cost of such study such funds or services as the Secretary of the 
Army may deem appropriate: Provided fv/rtlier^ That the findings of 
such study shall be presented in a joint, report signed by the appropri-
ate representatives of the Governor of Texas and of the Chief of 
Engineers. 
,SEC. 210. In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby au-
thorized to be appropriated the sum of $60,000,000 for the prosecution 
of the comprehensive plan adopted by section 9(a) of the Act approved 
58 Stat. 891. 
December 22, 1944 (Public Law Numbered'534, Seventy-eighth Con-
gress) , as amended and supplemented hj subsequent Acts of Congress, 
for continuing the works in the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken 
under said plans by the Secretary of the InteriQr. 
SEC. 211. (a) The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed 
to pay to any bona fide lessee or permittee owning improvements, 
which are or which were situated on a railroad right-of-way, the fair 
value of any such improvements, which have been or will be rendered 
inoperative or be otherwise adversely affected by the construction of 
the Tuttle Creek Reservoir project on the Blue River, Kansas, as 
determined bj the Secretary, or by the United States District Court 
for the District of Kansas on which is conferred jurisdiction for this 
purpose. 
(b) The Secretary of the Army is authorized to provide the funds 
necessary to carry out the provisions of this section from any moneys 
appropriated for the construction of the Tuttle Creek Reservoir 
project. 
Short title. 
SEC. 212. Title II of this Act may be cited as the "Flood Control Act 
of 1960". 
TITLE III-^ACQUISITION OF REQUIRED LAND 
DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SEC. 301. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress that 
owners and tenants whose property is acquired for public works proj-
ects of the United States of America shall be paid a ]ust ami reasonable 
consideration therefor. In order to facilitate the acquisition of land 
and interests therein by negotiation with property owners, to avoid 
litigation and to relieve congestion in the courts, the Secretary of the 
Army (or such other officers of the Department of the Army as he 
may designate) is authorized in any 'negotiation for the purchase of 
sucn property to pay a purchase price which will take into considera-
tion the policy set forth in this section. 
DISSEMINATION OP INFORMATION 
SEC. 302. Within six months after the date that Congress authorizes 
construction of a water resource development project under the juris-
diction of the Secretary of the Army, the Corps of Engineers shall 
make reasonable effort to advise owners and occupants in and adjacent 
to the project area as to the probable timing for the acquisition of 
lands for the project and for incidental rights-of-way, relocations, and 
any other requiremente affecting owners and occupants. Within a 
reasonable time after initial appropriations are made for land acquisi-
tion or construction, including relocations, the Corps of Engineers 
shall conduct public meetings at locations convenient to owners and 
tenants to be displaced by the project in order to advise them of the 
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proposed plans for acquisition and to afford them an opportunity to 
comment. 
To carry out the j)rovisions of this section, the Chief of 
Engineers shall issue reflations to provide, among other things, 
dissemination of the following information to those affected: (1) 
factors considered in making the appraisals; (2) desire to purchase 
property without going to court; (3) legal right to submit to con-
demnation proceedings; (4) payments for moving expenses or other 
losses not covered by appraised market value; (5) occupancy during 
construction; (6) removal of improvements; (7) payments required 
from occupants of Government acquired land; (8) withdrawals by 
owners of deposits made in court by Government, and (9) use of land 
by owner when easement is acquired. The provisions of this section 
shall not subject the United. States to any liability nor affect the valid-
ity of any acquisitions by purchase or condemnation and shall be 
exempt from the operaticms of the Administrative Procedure Act of 
June 11,1946, as amended (60 Stat. 237). ^ 
SEC. 303. Title I I I of this Act may be cited as the "Land Acquisition 
Policy Act of 1960". 
Approved July 14, 1960. 
5 use 1001 note. 
Short title. 
Public Law 86-646 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Administrator of General Services to release the recapture pro-
visions contained in the conveyance of certain real property to the city of 
Little Rock, Arkansas, and for other purposes. 
July 14, 1960 
[S. .3319] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America'in 
Congress assembled^ That (a) subpara- y^^^l^^^ ^i^o'rt'^ 
graph numbered (2) of tjie concluding paragraph of the first section Ark. 
of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the military 
and nonmilitary activities of the War Department for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1937, and for other purposes", approved May 15, 
1936 (49 Stat. 1292), is herebv repealed. 
(b) The Administrator oi General Services is authorized and di-
rected to execute and deliver to the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, 
without consideration, such instrument as he shall determine to be 
required to release effectively to that city all right, title, and interest 
heretofore reserved to the United States or any department or agency 
thereof in or with respect to the land described in section 2 of that 
Act (49 Stat. 1292-1293) in compliance with the condition imposed 
by that subparagraph. 
Approved July 14, 1960. 
Public Law 86-647 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation with respect 
to the 1960 Pacific Festival, and for other purposes. 
July 14, 1960 
[H. J. Res. 672] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States 
of America 
in Congress a^sembled^ That the President is 
authorized and requested to issue a proclamation inviting foreign 
nations to participate in the 1960 Pacific Festival which is being held 
at San Francisco, California, from September 9, 1960, to September 
18, 1960, inclusive. 
Approved July 14, 1960. 
Pacific Festival, 
1960.