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 89-789 (H.R.18233), enacted 11/07/1966

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Public Law 89-789 
A N A C T 
November 7, 1966 
Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works 
[H. R. 18233] 
on rivers and harbors for navigation, 
flood 
control, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. 
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bor Act of 1966. 
TITLE I—KIVERS AND HARBORS 
SEC. 101, 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 direc-
tion 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 Numbered 14, 
Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall govern with respect to 
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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 inci-
dental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full. 
NAVIGATION 
Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, New Jersey: House 
Document Numbered 494, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $12,899,000; 
Carolina Beach Harbor, North Carolina: House Document Num-
bered 515, Eighty-ninth Congress, maintenance; 
Southport Harbor, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 
514, Eighty-ninth Congress, maintenance; 
Gulf County Canal, Florida: House Document Numbered 481, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $477,000; 
Saint Lucie Inlet, Florida: House Document Numbered 508, Eighty-
ninth Congress, maintenance; 
Pearl River, Mississippi and Louisiana: House Document Num-
bered 482, P^ighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $630,000; 
Biloxi Harbor, Mississippi: House Document Numbered 513, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $753,000; 
Elk Creek Harbor, Pennsylvania: House Document Numbered 512, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $920,000; 
Conneaut Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 484, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $495,000; 
Cross Village Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 490, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $723,000; 
Mississippi River-Fort Madison Harbor, Iowa: House Document 
Numbered 507, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$975,000; 
BEACH EROSION 
Ocracoke Inlet to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina: House Document 
Numbered 509, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$5,800,000; 
Mullet Key, Florida: House Document Numbered 516, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $286,000; 
Pinellas County, Florida: House Document Numbered 519, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $116,000; 
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Surveys. 
64 Stat. 168. 
Stone Arch 
Bridge, Minneap-
olis, Minn. 
46 Stat. 927. 
Illinois and 
Michigan Canal. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
East St. Louis 
and Chester, 111., 
bridges. 
60 Stat. 847. 
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note. 
60 Stat. 891. 
53 Stat. 1058. 
54 Stat. 765. 
7 2 Stat. 35 5. 
San Diego (Sunset Cliff's), California: House Document Numbered 
477, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $809,000. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause surveys to be made at the following named localities 
and subject to all applicable provisions of section 110 of the River 
and Harbor Act of 1950: 
Mexico Beach, Florida. 
Great Lakes, particularly Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, in con-
nection with water supply, pollution abatement, navigation, flood 
control, hydroelectric power, and related water resources develop-
ment and control. 
SEC. lOS. The project for navigation on the Upper Mississippi River 
from the Illinois River to Minneapolis, Minnesota, authorized by the 
Act of July 30, 1930, as extended and amended, is hereby modified to 
authorize the Secretary of the Army to reimburse any common carrier 
by railroad for the cost of permanent reconstruction and repair of 
the Stone Arch Bridge at Minneapolis, Minnesota, performed by such 
carrier, to repair the damage to such bridge caused by floods during 
April and May 1965, except that such reimbursement shall not exceed 
$700,000. 
SEC. 104. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to 
cause an immediate study to be made, under the direction of the Chief 
of Engineers, in cooperation with appropriate agencies and represent-
atives of the State of Illinois, of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, its 
lands and appurtenances extending from Chicago to the Illinois River 
at La Salle as constructed by the State of Illinois pursuant to the 
provisions, as applicable, of the Acts of March 30,1822 (3 Stat. 659), 
March 2, 1827 (4 Stat. 234), and March 2, 1833 (4 Stat. 662) with a 
view toward determining (1) those portions no longer required for 
navigation, (2) the feasibility and advisability of declaring such por-
tions abandoned as a navigable waterway, and (3) procedures for 
releasing and quitclaiming to the State of Illinois the reversionary 
interests of the United States in such lands not required for navigation 
purposes. The Secretary shall report to the Congress the results of 
such study together with his recommendations thereon not later than 
one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any provision in the General Bridge Act 
of 1946 or any other Act of Congress, in the case of the bridge con-
structed by the city of East Saint Louis, Illinois, across the Mississippi 
River, pursuant to Public Law Numbered 639, enacted by the Seventy-
ninth Confess of the United States of America at the second session, 
and the bridge constructed across the Mississippi River by the city of 
Chester, Illinois, pursuant to Public Law Numbered 191, enacted by 
the Seventy-sixth Congress of the United States of America, as 
amended by Public Law Numbered 751, enacted by the Seventy-sixth 
Congress of the United States of America, and Public Law Numbered 
85-512, enacted by the Eighty-fifth Congress of the United States of 
America at the second session, if the applicable law of the State of 
Illinois provides or permits the establishment of reasonable tolls suf-
ficient for the reasonable cost of maintaining, operating, and repairing 
said bridges and the approaches thereto under economical manage-
ment, and provide a sinking fund to amortize the cost of any bonds 
or other obligations issued to finance such cost, including reasonable 
interest and financing costs as soon as possible under reasonable 
charges and within the period of thirty years from completion, recon-
struction, repair, and improvement of such bridge or extensions there-
of, and permits or provides the transfer to said city of any surplus 
income to the city to be used for a proper public purpose, and each of 
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said cities have adopted instruments authorizing construction of said 
bridges and by such instruments provided for the financing of the 
same under the applicable State statutes, including the transfer of 
surpluses to said cities for a proper public purpose, then each such 
city may, prior to January 1, 1969, charge tolls in the manner and to 
the extent provided in such instruments, and all collections from such 
bridges heretofore retained or transferred to said cities shall be valid 
collections, and may be retained by said cities and used and applied 
for a proper purpose. An accurate record of the cost of each such 
bridge and the approaches thereto, the expenditures for maintaining, 
operating, and repairing the same, including amounts transferred to 
the cities in accordance with the terms of any instrument adopted by 
said cities for financing the cost of the bridge and the daily tolls col-
lected, shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all 
persons int^ested. 
SEC. 106. (a) The consent and approval of Congress is given to J"^'^''®'^*^''°™' 
the compact between the States of Missouri and Illinois creating a 
consent of 
Missouri-Illinois-Jefferson-Monroe Bridge Commission which reads congress. 
as follows: 
"COMPACT BETWEEN ILLINOIS AND MISSOUKI CRE-
ATING 
A 
MISSOURI-ILLINOIS-JEFFERSON-MONROE 
BRIDGE COMMISSION 
"ARTICLE 
I 
"There is hereby created a 
Missouri-Illinois-Jefferson-Monroe 
Bridge Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) which 
shall be a body corporate and politic and which shall have the follow-
ing powers and duties; 
"1. To plan, construct, maintain and operate a bridge and 
approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near Crystal 
City, Missouri, at a point deemed by the commission as most suitable 
to the interests of the citizens of the States of Illinois and Missouri 
in accordance with the provisions of an act of the Seventy-ninth Con-
gress, Second Session, of the United States entitled 'The General 
Bridge Act of 1946'; 
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eo stat. 847. 
"2. To purchase, maintain and, in its discretion, to operate all or 
any ferries across the Mississippi River within twenty-five miles of the 
site selected for the bridge; 
"3. To contract, to sue and be sued in its own name; to purchase or 
otherwise acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property ; 
"4. To acquire by proper condemnation proceedings such real prop-
erty as may be necessary for the construction and operation of the 
bridge and the approaches thereto; 
"5. To issue bonds on the security of the revenue derived from the 
operation of the bridge and ferries for the payment of the cost of the 
bridge, its approaches, ferry or ferries, and the necessary lands, ease-
ments and appurtenances thereto including interest during construc-
tion and all necessary engineering, legal, architectural, traffic survey-
ing and other necessary expenses. Such bonds shall be the negotiable 
bonds of the commission, the income of which shall be tax free. The 
principal and interest of the bonds, and any premiums to be paid for 
their retirement before maturity, shall be paid solely from the revenues 
derived from the bridge and ferries ; 
"6. To establish and charge tolls for transit over such bridge and 
ferries in accordance with the provisions of this compact; 
"7. To perform all other necessary and incidental functions. 
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"ARTICLE I I 
"The rates of tolls to be charged for transit over such bridge and 
ferries shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay for the 
reasonable cost of maintenance, repairs and operation (including the 
approaches to the bridge) under economical management, and also 
to provide a sinking fund sufficient to pay the principal and interest 
of the outstanding bonds. All tolls and other revenues derived from 
facilities of the commission are hereby pledged to such uses. 
"ARTICLE I I I 
"The commission shall keep an accurate record of the cost of the 
bridge and of other expenses and of the daily revenues collected and 
shall report annually to the governor of each state setting forth in 
detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to 
this agreement and any legislation thereunder. 
"ARTICLE 
IV 
"When the bonds have been retired, the part of the bridge within 
the state of Illinois shall be conveyed to the state of Illinois, and that 
part within the state of Missouri to the state of Missouri, and the 
high contracting parties to this compact do hereby agree that there-
after the bridge shall be free of tolls and shall be properly main-
tained, operated and repaired by the two states as may be agreed upon. 
"ARTICLE V 
"The commission shall consist of ten members, five of whom shall 
be qualified electors of the state of Illinois and shall reside in Monroe 
County^ or counties adjacent thereto, Illinois, and five of whom shall 
be qualified electors of the state of Missouri and shall reside in Jeffer-
son County, or counties adjacent thereto, Missouri. The Illinois mem-
bers are to be chosen by the state of Illinois, and the Missouri members 
by the state of Missouri in the manner and for the terms fixed by the 
legislature of each state, except as herein provided. 
"ARTICLE 
VI 
"1. The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a 
vice-chairman, and may appoint such officers and employees as it may 
require for the performance of its duties and shall fix and determine 
their qualifications and duties. 
"2. Until otherwise determined by the legislatures of the two states 
no action of the commission shall be binding unless taken at a meet-
ing at which at least three members from each state are present and 
unless a majority of the members from each state present at such 
meeting shall vote in favor thereof. Each state reserves the right 
hereafter to provide by law for the exercise of the veto power by 
the governor thereof over any action of any commissioner appointed 
therefrom. 
"3. The two states shall provide penalties for violations of any 
order, rule or regulation of the commission, and for the manner of 
enforcing same. 
"ARTICLE 
VII 
"The commission is authorized and directed to proceed with the 
planning and construction of the bridge and the approaches thereto 
as rapidly as may be economically practicable and is hereby vested 
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with all iiecessai'j and appropriate powers, not inconsistent wit!) the 
fonstitutioii or the hiMS of the L^nited States or of eitlier state, to i^^'ert 
the same, except tlie power to assess or levy taxes. 
"ARTIOLK VIIE 
"In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals under 
authority vested in us by law." 
(b) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expiessly 
reserved. 
SEC. 107. (a) The consent of Congress is hereby given to the coni- 
interstate com-
pact, signed by the compact representatives for the States of Kansas ^^consent of con-
and Oklahoma on the 81st day of March 1965, at Wichita, Kansas, gress. 
and thereafter ratified by the legislature of each of the States afore-
said, which compact is as follows: 
"AKKAXSAS RIVER BASIN COMPACT, KANSAS-
OKLAHOMA 
''The state of Kansas and the state of Oklahoma, acting through 
their duly authorized compact representatives, Robert L. Smith and 
Warden L. Noe, for the state of Kansas, and Geo. R. Benz and Frank 
Raab, for the state of Oklahoma, after negotiations participated in 
by Trigg Twichell, appointed by the president as the representative 
of the United States of America, and in accordance with the consent 
to such negotiations granted by an act of congress of the United 
States of America, approved August 11, 1955 (Public Law 340, 84th 
congress, 1st session), have agreed as follows respecting the waters 
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of the Arkansas river and its tributaries: 
"ARTICLE I 
"The major purposes of this compact are: A. To promote interstate 
comity between the states of Kansas and Oklahoma; 
"B. To divide and apportion equitably between the states of Kansas 
and Oklahoma the waters of the Arkansas river basin and to promote 
the orderly development thereof ; 
"C. To provide an agency for administering the water apportion-
ment agreed to herein; 
"D. To encourage the maintenance of an active pollution-abatement 
program in each of the two states and to seek the further reduction of 
both natural and man-made pollution in the waters of the Arkansas 
river basin. 
"ARTICLE I I 
"As used in this compact: A. The term 'state' shall mean either state 
signatory hereto and shall be construed to include any person or per-
sons, entity or agency of either state who, by reason of official respon-
sibility or by designation of the governor of that state, is acting as an 
official representative of that state; 
"B. The term 'Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas river commission' or the 
term 'commission' means the agency created by this compact for the 
administration thereof; 
"C. The term 'Arkansas river' means that portion of the Arkansas 
river from a point immediately below the confluence of the Arkansas 
and Little Arkansas rivers in the vicinity of Wichita, Kansas, to a 
point immediately below the confluence of the Arkansas river with the 
Grand-Neosho river near Muskogee, Oklahoma; 
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"D. The term 'Arkansas river basin' means all of the drainage basin 
of the Arkansas river as delimited above, including all tributaries 
which empty into it between the upstream and downstream limits; 
"E. The term 'waters of the Arkansas river and its tributaries' 
means the waters originating in the Arkansas river basin; 
"F. The term 'conservation storage capacity' means that portion of 
the active storage capacity of reservoirs, including multipurpose res-
ervoirs, with a conservation storage capacity in excess of 100 acre-feet, 
available for the storage of water for subsequent use, but it excludes 
any portion of the storage capacity allocated to flood and sediment 
control and inactive storage capacity allocated to other uses; 
"G. The term 'new conservation storage capacitj^' means conserva-
tion storage capacity for which construction is initiated after July 1, 
1963, and storage capacity not presently allocated for conservation 
storage which is converted to conservation storage capacity after July 
1, 1963, in excess of the quantities of declared conservation storage 
capacity as set forth in the storage table attached to and made a part 
of the minutes of the twenty-fourth meeting of the compact committee 
dated September 1,1964, and as filed and identified to this compact in 
the offices of the secretaries of state of the respective states; 
"H. The term 'pollution' means contamination or other alterations 
of the physical, chemical, biological or radiological properties of water 
or the discharge of any lic^uid, gaseous, or solid substances into any 
waters which creates or is likely to result in a nuisance, or which ren-
ders or is likely to render the waters into which it is discharged harm-
ful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare or 
which is harmful, detrimental or injurious to beneficial uses of the 
water. 
"ARTICLE 
I I I 
"The physical and other conditions peculiar to the Arkansas river 
basin constitute the basis for this compact, and neither of the states 
hereby, nor the congress of the United States by its consent hereto, 
concedes that this compact establishes any general principle with 
respect to any other interstate stream, 
"ARTICLE 
IV 
"A. For the purpose of apportionment of water between the two 
states, the Arkansas river basin is hereby divided into major topo-
graphic subbasins as follows: (1) The Grand-Neosho river subbasin; 
(2) the Verdigris river subbasin; (3) the Salt Fork river subbasin; 
(4) the Cimarron river subbasin; and (5) the mainstem Arkansas 
river subbasin which shall consist of the Arkansas river basin, except-
ing the Grand-Neosho river, Verdigris river. Salt Fork river, and 
Cimarron river subbasins. 
"B. The two states recognize that portions of other states not 
signatory to this compact lie within the drainage area of the Arkansas 
river basin as herein defined. 
The water apportionments provided 
for in this compact are not intended to affect nor do they affect the 
rights of such other states in and to the use of the waters of the basin. 
"ARTICLE V 
"The state of Kansas shall have free and unrestricted use of the 
waters of the Arkansas river basin within Kansas subject to the 
provisions of this compact and to the limitations set forth below: 
"A. New conservation storage capacity in the Grand-Neosho river 
subbasin within the state of Kansas shall not exceed 650,000 acre-feet 
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plus an additional capacity equal to the new conservation storage in 
said drainage basin in Oklahoma excepting storage on Spavmaw 
creek; 
"B. New conservation storage capacity in the Verdigris river sub-
basin within the state of Kansas shall not exceed 300,000 acre-feet plus 
an additional capacity equal to the new conservation storage in said 
drainage basin in Oklahoma, excepting navigation capacity allocated 
in Oologah reservoir; 
"C. New conservation storage capacity in the mainstem Arkansas 
river subbasin within the state of Kansas shall not exceed 600,000 acre-
feet plus an additional capacity equal to the new conservation storage 
in said drainage basin in Oklahoma; 
"D. New conservation storage capacity in the Salt Fork river sub-
basin within the state of Kansas shall not exceed 300,000 acre-feet plus 
an additional capacity equal to the new conservation storage in said 
drainage basin in Oklahoma; 
"E. New conservation storage capacity in the Cimarron river sub-
basin within the state of Kansas shall not exceed 5,000 acre-feet, pro-
vided that new conservation storage capacity in excess of that amount 
may be constructed if specific project plans have first been submitted 
to and have received the approval of the commission. 
"ARTICLE 
VI 
"The state of Oklahoma shall have free and unrestricted use of the 
waters of the Arkansas river basin within Oklahoma subject to the 
provisions of this compact and to the limitations set forth below: 
"New conservation storage capacity in the Cimarron river subbasin 
within the state of Oklahoma shall not exceed 5,000 acre-feet provided 
that new conservation storage capacity in excess of that amount may 
be constructed if specific project plans have first been submitted to 
and have received the approval of the commission. 
"ARTICLE VII 
"A. The commission shall determine the conditions under which 
one state may construct and operate for its needs new conservation 
storage capacity in the other state. The construction or utilization of 
new conservation storage capacity by one state in the other state shall 
entitle the state whose storage potential is reduced by such construc-
tion to construct an equal amount of new conservation storage in a 
subbasin agreeable to the commission. 
"B. New conservation storage capacity constructed by the United 
States or any of its agencies, instrumentalities or wards, or by a state, 
political subdivision thereof, or any person or persons shall be charged 
against the state in which the use is made. 
"C. Each state has the unrestricted right to replace within the same 
subbasin, any conservation storage capacity made unusable by any 
cause. 
"D. In the event reallocation of storage capacity in the Arkansas 
river basin in Oklahoma should result in the reduction of that state's 
new conservation storage capacity, such reallocation shall not reduce 
the total new conservation storage capacities available to Kansas under 
Article V; provided that a subsequent reinstatement of such storage 
capacity shall not be charged as an increase in Oklahoma's new con-
servation storage capacity. 
"ARTICLE V I I I 
"A. In the event of importation of water to a major subbasin of the 
Arkansas river basin from another river basin, or from another major 
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subbasin within the same state, the state making the importation shall 
have exclusive use of such imported waters. 
"B. In the event of exportation of water from a major subbasin 
for use in another major subbasin or for use outside the Arkansas 
river basin within the same state, the limitations of Articles V and 
VI on new conservation capacity shall apply against the subbasin 
from which the exportation is made in the amount of the storage 
capacity actually used for that purpose within the exporting subbasin 
or, in the event of direct diversion of water without storage, on the 
basis of five acre-feet of conservation storage capacity for each acre-
foot of water on the average so diverted annually. 
"C. Any reservior storage capacity which is required for the con-
trol and utilization of imported waters shall not be accounted as new 
conservation storage. 
"D. Should a transbasin diversion of water of the Arkansas river 
basin be made in one state for the use and benefit of the other state 
or both states, the commission shall determine a proper accounting 
of new conservation storage capacities in each state in accordance with 
the above principles and with the project uses to be made in that state. 
"ARTICLE 
I X 
"The states of Kansas and Oklahoma mutually agree to: A. The 
principle of individual state effort to abate man-made pollution within 
each state's respeclive borders, and the continuing support of both 
states in an active pollution-abatement program; 
"B. The cooperation of the appropriate state agencies in Kansas 
and Oklahoma to investigate and abate sources of alleged interstate 
pollution within the Arkansas river basin whenever such matters are 
called to their attention by the commission; 
"C. Enter into joint programs for the identification and control 
of sources of natural pollution within the Arkansas river basin which 
the commission finds are of interstate significance; 
"D. The principle that neither state may require the other to pro-
vide water for the purpose of water-quality control as a substitute for 
adequate waste treatment; 
"E. Utilize the provisions of the federal water pollution control act 
in the resolution of any pollution problems which cannot be resolved 
within the provisions of this compact. 
"ARTICLE 
X 
"A. There is hereby created an interstate administrative agency to 
be known as the 'Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas river commission.' The 
commission shall be composed of three commissioners representing 
each of the states of Kansas and Oklahoma who shall be appointed by 
the governors of the respective states and, if designated by the presi-
dent, one commissioner representing the United States. The president 
is hereby requested to designate a commissioner and an alternate repre-
senting the United States. The federal commissioner, if one be desig-
nated, shall be the presiding officer of the commission, but shall not 
have the right to vote in any of the deliberations of the commission. 
"B. One Kansas commissioner shall be the state official who now or 
hereafter shall be responsible for administering water law in the state; 
the other two commissioners shall reside in the Arkansas river basin in 
Kansas and shall be appointed to four-year staggered terms. 
" C One Oklahoma commissioner shall be the state official who now 
or hereafter shall be responsible for administering water law in the 
state; the other two commissioners shall reside in the Arkansas river 
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basin in Oklahoma and shall be appointed to four-year staggered 
terms. 
"D. A majority of the commissioners of each state and the commis-
sioner or his alternate representing the United States, if so designated, 
must be present to constitute a quorum. In taking any commission 
action, each signatory state shall have a single vote representing the 
majority opinion of the commissioners of that state. 
"E. The salaries and personal expenses of each commissioner shall 
be paid by the government which he represents. All other expenses 
which are incurred by the commission incident to the administration 
of this compact shall be borne equally by the two states and shall be 
paid by the commission out of the 'Kansas-Oklahoma Arkansas river 
commission fund.' 
Such fund shall be initiated and maintained by 
equal payments of each state into the fund. 
Disbursements shall be 
made from said fund in such manner as may be authorized by the 
commission. Such fund shall not be subject to the audit and account-
ing procedures of the states; however, all receipts and disbursements 
of funds handled by the commission shall be audited by a qualified 
independent public accountant at regular intervals, and the report 
of such audit shall be included in and become a part of the annual 
report of the commission. 
"ARTICLE 
X I 
"A, The commission shall have the power to: (1) Employ such 
engineering, legal clerical and other personnel as in its judgment may 
be necessary for the performance of its functions under the compact; 
" (2) Enter into contracts with appropriate state or federal agencies 
for the collection, correlation, and presentation of factual data, for 
the maintenance of records, and for the preparation of reports; 
"(3) Establish and maintain an office for the conduct of its affairs; 
"(4) Adopt rules and regulations governing its operations; 
"(5) Cooperate with federal agencies in developing principles, con-
sistent with the provisions of this compact and with federal policy, 
for the storage and release of water from all-federal capacities of 
federal reservoirs, both existing and future within the Arkansas river 
basin, for the purpose of assurmg their operation in the best interests 
of the states and the United States; 
"(6) Permit either state, with the consent of the proper operating 
agencT^, to impound water, for such periods of time deemed necessary 
or desirable by the commission, in available reservoir storage capacity 
which is not designated as conservation or new conservation storage 
capacity for subsequent release and use for any purpose approved by 
the commission; 
" (7) Hold hearings and take testimony and receive evidence at such 
times and places as it deems necessary; 
"(8) Secure from the head of any department or agency of the 
federal or state government such information, suggestions, estimates 
and statistics as it may need or believe to be useful for carrying out its 
functions and as may be available to or procurable" by the department 
or agency to which the request is addressed; 
" (9) Print or otherwise reproduce and distribute all of its proceed-
ings and reports. 
"B. The commission shall: (1) Cause to be established, maintained 
and operated such stream, reservoir, or other gaging stations as may be 
necessary for the proper administration of the compact; 
"(2) Collect, analyze and report on data as to stream flows, wat«r 
quality, conservation storage, and such other information as is neces-
sary for the proper administration of the compact; 
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" (3) Perform all other functions required of it by the compact and 
do all things necessary, proper or convenient in the performance of its 
duties thereunder; 
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^'(4:) Prepare and submit an annual report to the governor of such 
signatory state and to the president of the United States covering the 
activities of the commission for the preceding fiscal year, together with 
an accounting of all funds received and expended by it in the conduct 
of its work; 
"(5) Prepare and submit to the governor of each of the states of 
Kansas and Oklahoma an annual budget covering the anticipated 
expenses of the commission for the following fiscal year; 
"(6) Make available to the governor or any state agency of either 
state or to any authorized representatives of the United States, upon 
request, any information within its possession. 
"ARTICLE 
X I I 
"A. Recognizing the present limited uses of the available water 
supplies of the Arkansas river basin in the two states and the uncer-
tamties of their ultimate water needs, the states of Kansas and Okla-
homa deem it imprudent and inadvisable to attempt at this time to 
make final allocations of the new conservation storage capacity which 
may ultimately be required in either state, and, by the limitations 
on storage capacity imposed herein, have not attempted to do so. 
Accordingly, after the expiration of 25 years following the effective 
date of this compact, the commission may review any provisions of 
the compact for the purpose of amending or supplementing the same, 
and shall meet for the consideration of such review on the request 
of the commissioners of either state; provided, that the provisions 
hereof shall remain in full force and effect until changed or amended 
by unanimous action of the states acting through their commissioners 
and until such changes are ratified by the legislatures of the respec-
tive states and consented to by the congress in the same manner as this 
compact is required to be ratified to become effective. 
"B. This compact may be terminated at any time by the appropriate 
action of the legislatures of both signatory states. 
"C. In the event of amendment or termination of the compact, 
all rights established under the compact shall continue unimpaired. 
"ARTICLE X I I I 
"Nothing in this compact shall be deemed: A. To impair or affect 
the powers, rights or obligations of the United States, or those claiming 
under its authority, in, over and to the waters of the Arkansas River 
Basin; 
"B. To interfere with or impair the right or power of either signa-
tory state to regulate within its boundaries the appropriation, use and 
control of waters within that state not inconsistent with its obligations 
under this compact. 
"ARTICLE 
X I V 
"If any part or application of this compact should be declared 
invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, all other provisions and 
applications of this compact shall remain in full force and effect. 
"ARTICLE 
XV 
"This compact shall become binding and obligatory when it shall 
have been ratified by the legislatures of each state and consented to by 
the congress of the United States, and when the congressional act con-
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senting to this compact includes the consent of congress to name and 
join the United States as a party in any litigation in the United States 
supreme court, if the United States is an indispensable party, and if 
the litigation arises out of this compact or its application, and if a 
signatory state is a party thereto. Notice of ratification by the legisla-
ture of each state shall be given by the governor of that state to the 
governor of the other state and to the president of the United States 
and the president is hereby requested to give notice to the governor 
of each state of consent by the congress of the United States. 
" I N 
WITNESS 
WHEREOF, The authorized representatives have 
executed three counterparts hereof each of which shall be and con-
stitute an original, one of which shall be deposited in the archives of 
the department of state of the United States, and one of which shall be 
forwarded to the governor of each state. 
"DONE at the City of Wichita, state of Kansas, this 31st day ot 
March, A.D. 1965 
"APPROVED : 
"ROBERT L . SMITH, 
"WARDEN L . NOE, 
"Compact Representatives for the state of Kansas. 
"GEO. R . BENZ, 
"FRANK RAAB, 
"Compact Representatives for the state of Oklahoma. 
"TRIGG TWICHELL, 
"Representative of the United States." 
(b) In order to carry out the purposes of this section, and the pur-
poses of article XV of this compact consented to by Congress by this 
section, the congressional consent to this compact includes and 
expressly gives the consent of Congress to have the United States of 
America named and joined as a party litigant in any litigation in the 
United States Supreme Court, if the United States of America is an 
indispensable party to such litigation, and if the litigation arises out 
of this compact, or its application, and if a signatory State to this 
compact is a party litigant, in the litigation. 
(c) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly 
reserved. 
SEC. 108. (a) Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act entitled ton°bry^i^"'*'"^" 
"An Act authorizing the city of Rock Island, Illinois, or its assigns, to ° 
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construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi 
River at or near Rock Island, Illinois, and to a place at or near the 
city of Davenport, Iowa," approved March 18,1938 (52 Stat. 110), as 
^o stat. 520. 
amended, is amended by striking out the comma after "foregoing" and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(1) the construction of an 
additional span to increase the capacitp?^ of the bridge and (2)". 
(b) Subsection (c) of the first section of such Act of March 18, 
1938, as amended, is amended by inserting before the period at the end 
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thereof a comma and the following: "except that the construction of 
an additional span authorized as part of such reconstruction, enlarge-
ment, and extension shall be commenced not later than April 1, 1970, 
and shall be completed within three years after such date". 
(c) Nothing in this section or the amendments made by this section 
shall be construed to interfere with or delay future construction of a 
properly authorized bridge over the Mississippi River at or near the 
city of Davenport, Iowa. 
SEC. 109. (a) The consent of Congress is hereby granted to Duke consb-uit°oTof^°" 
Power Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, ^am.'' 
and operate a dam with overflow spillway crest at elevation 475 mean 
sea level across Savannah River between Anderson County, South 
Carolina, and Elbert County, Georgia, near Middleton Shoals, and 
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[80 STAT. 
about two hundre<l and iiiiiety-seven luileS above the mouth of said 
river, for tlie purpose of providing a pool for condenser water for 
a steam-electric plant. Construction on such dam shall not be com-
menced until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved 
by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and by the Secretary 
of the Army, and when such plans have been approved by the Chief 
of Engineers and by the Secretary of the Army, there shall be no 
deviation from such plans either before or after completion of said 
dam unless the modification of such plans has previously beeii sub-
mitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary 
of the Army. 
In approving the plans for said dam such conditions 
and stipulations may be imposed as the Chief of Engineers and the 
Secretary of the Army may deem necessary to protect the present 
and future interest of the United States. 
Nothing in this section 
shall be construed to authorize the use of such dam to develop water 
power or generate hydroelectric energy. The grantee and its succes-
sors shall hold and save the United States free from all claims arising 
from damage which may be sustained by the dam authorized in this 
section, or damage sustained by the appurtenances of the said dam, 
by reason of the future construction and operation by the United 
States of Hart well Dam and Reservoir or the Trotters Shoals Dam 
Post, p. 1420, 
and Reservoir authorized in section 203 of this Act, or any other 
F'ederal project upstream or downstream from the dam authorized 
by this section. In order to make feasible the dam and steam-electri(; 
generating plant which Duke Power Company intends to construct, 
it is hereby expressly provided that, should such dam and plant be 
constructed, (1) no existing or future unit at Hartwell Reservoir will 
be operated to pump water from below Hartwell Dam back to Hart-
well Reservoir, and (2) a volume of water per week equal to at least 
an average flow of one thousand five hundred cubic feet per second 
shall be discharged from Hartwell Reservoir. The Secretary of the 
Army, upon his finding that such discharges result in damages to 
Hartwell Reservoir, and after giving the company reasonable notice 
and opportunity to be heard, shall determine and fix a reasonable 
and equitable annual charge to be paid by the company to the United 
States as compensation for such damages. 
(b) The authority granted by this section shall cease and be deemed 
null and void unless the actual construction of the dam authorized 
by this section is commenced within twelve years and completed within 
fifteen years from the date of enactment of this Act. The authority 
granted by this section shall not be deemed a bar to, or grounds for 
delaying, the construction of the Trotters Shoals project authorized 
in section 203 of this Act. 
(c) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
PiirJira\^county, 
^^^P' HO. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Fia. 
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Engineers, is hereby authorized and directed, in order to reduce future 
Navigation pro j- 
inamtenance costs of the authorized navigation project for Johns 
Pass, Pinellas County, Florida, to provide suitable protective meas-
ures over a frontage of approximately one thousand linear feet of 
shore along the north end of Treasure Island, at an estimated first 
cost for construction of approximately $100,000. Local interests shall 
contribute in cash 40 per centum of the first cost of construction; 
provide necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way for construction 
and subsequent maintenance of the project; hold and save the United 
States free from damages that may be attributed to the project; bear 
all costs exceeding $500,000 Federal cost for the complete project, 
including the navigation channel. Local interests may be reimbursed 
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for such protective measures as they may undertake in accordance 
with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers, subject to the above 
limitations. Funds authorized to carry out section 107 of the Eiver 
and Harbor Act of 1960, as amended, shall be available to carry out jgtiH^^ofsV 
this section. 
33 use 577. 
SEC. 111. (a) The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to ^.Tbrfdlflnd''^'" 
provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a bridge, facilities. 
with visitor facilities, over the Washington Channel, from the vicinity 
of Tenth Street Southwest to East Potomac Park in Washington, 
District of Columbia, 
The structure may be so designed and con-
structed as to provide facilities for the accommodation of visitors to 
the Nation's Capital area, and to provide convenient and adequate 
access to East Potomac Park. 
(b) The Secretary may obtain and use such lands or interests there-
in owned, controlled, or administered by the District of Columbia, the 
District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency, the Corps of 
Engineers, or any other Government agency, with the prior consent 
of such agency or agencies, as he shall consider necessary for the con-
struction and operation of said bridge, without cost or reimburse-
ment. Before construction is commenced, the location and plans for 
the bridge shall be approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Sec-
retary of the Army subject to such conditions as they may prescribe, 
in accordance with section 502(b) of the General Bridge Act of 1946 
(33u.s.c.525b). 
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(c) The Secretary is authorized to enter into appropriate arrange-
ments for the construction and operation of the bridge in accordance 
with the authority contained in section 3 of the Act of August 25,1916 
(39 Stat. 535), as amended, except that any such arrangements need 
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not be limited to a maximum term of thirty years. The bridge, at all 
times, shall be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, 
and shall be administered, operated, maintained, and policed as a part 
of the park system of the National Capital. 
(d) The Secretary of the Interior shall cooperate with other Fed-
eral and local agencies with respect to the construction and operation 
of the bridge by him and the construction and operation of associated 
facilities by such other Federal and local agencies including the Dis-
trict of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency which shall enter into 
appropriate arrangements by negotiation or public bid to (i) lease all 
or part of the land bounded by Maine Avenue, Ninth Street and the 
Southwest Freeway, Southwest, to provide for the construction, main-
tenance and operation of a structured automobile parking facility 
designed to accommodate visitors to East Potomac Park and (ii) pro-
vide for the construction of (a) a public park or overlook, which park 
is to be maintained and operated by the National Park Service; and 
(b) roads providing access to the Tenth Street Mall from the South-
west Freeway and to and from Ninth Street, Southwest, which roads 
shall be maintained and operated by the District of Columbia. Any 
lease of the aforementioned area, executed by the District of Columbia 
Redevelopment Land Agency, shall provide appropriate easements for 
the construction, maintenance and operation of the aforesaid public 
park and roadways. Local agencies may enter into arrangements with 
the person, persons, corporation or corporations, as the Secretary may 
select pursuant to subsection (c) hereof for the construction and opera-
tion of necessary associated facilities otherwise authorized. 
(e) (1) There is hereby established an advisory committee, which mittt'^.^"'^^ '"""" 
shall be composed of the Chairman, National Capital Planning Com- Membership. 
mission; the Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts; the President, 
Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; the Chief of 
Engineers, United States Army; the Chairman, District of Columbia 
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[80 STAT. 
Redevelopment Land Agency; and three members to be appointed 
by the Secretary of the Interior from among the residents of the 
Metropolitan Washington area. 
The ex-officio members of the Com-
mittee may be represented by their designees. 
(2) Members of the Committee shall serve without compensation, 
but the Secretary is authorized to pay any expenses reasonably 
incurred by the Committee in carrying out its responsibilities under 
this section. 
(3) The Secretary shall designate one member of the Committee 
to be Chairman. 
The Committee shall act and advise by the affirma-
tive vote of a majority of its members. 
(4) The Secretary or his designee shall, from time to time, consult 
with and obtain the advice of the Committee with respect to matters 
relating to the design, construction, and operation of the bridge and 
any associated facilities. 
(f) The construction and operation of the bridge shall be at no 
expense to the Federal Government, and there are hereby authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for maintenance 
of the bridge and to carry out the other purposes of this section. 
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gj,^^ ]^]^2. The authorization of the comprehensive plan for the Ala-
iver, a., 
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bama-Coosa River and tributaries, as provided in the River and Har-
bor Act, approved March 2, 1945 (59 Stat. 10), as amended, insofar 
as it authorizes a development of the Crooked Creek site on the Talla-
poosa River in Randolph County, Alabama, for electric power and 
other public purposes is hereby suspended to permit the development 
of the Tallapoosa River and tributaries by construction, operation, and 
maintenance of a dam located not more than fifteen miles below the 
confluence of the Tallapoosa and Little Tallapoosa Rivers and by 
other project w^orks in accordance with the conditions of a license, if 
issued, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Power Act (16 
tlxjscjgia' 
U.S.C. 791(a)). 
If no application for license is made within two 
years after the date of the enactment of this section, or upon an order 
of the Federal Power Commission becoming final denying the appli-
cation or applications for a license made within such two-year period, 
the authorization relating to the Crooked Creek site provided for in 
the Act, approved March 2, 1945 (59 Stat. 10), shall have the same 
status as it would have had if this section had not been enacted. 
Citation of title. 
SEC. 113. Title I of this Act may be cited as the "River and Harbor 
Act of 1966". 
TITLE II—FLOOD CONTROL 
SEC. 201. Section 3 of the Act approved June 22,1936 (Public Law 
^3 use yoU' 
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, except as otherwise provided by law. The authori-
zation 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 Secretary of the Army or his 
designee 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. 202. 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, 
52 Stat. 1215. 
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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. 
SEC. 203. The following works of improvement for the benefit of 
Projects. 
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 pros-
ecuted as vigorously as may be consistent with budgetary require-
ments. Penstocks and 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 Com-
mission. 
MERRIMACK RIVER BASIN 
The project for North Nashua Kiver, Massachusetts, is hereby au-
thorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 113, Eighty-ninth 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $15,816,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Sudbury River at Saxon-
ville, Massachusetts, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 61, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$1,300,000. 
LONG ISLAND 
SOUND 
The project for flood protection on the Pequonnock River, Connecti-
cut, is hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of 
Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 115, Eighty-ninth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $5,000,000. 
MIDDLE ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection at Beaufort Inlet 
to Bogue Inlet, North Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 479, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $320,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection at Bogue Inlet 
to Moore Inlet, North Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 480, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,249,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection from Cape Fear 
to the North Carolina-South Carolina State line. North Carolina, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 511, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $12,310,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection for Mainland 
Areas, North Carolina, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
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[80 STAT. 
Document Numbered 475, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $2,048,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection for the Outer 
Banks—^Virginia State line to Hatteras, North Carolina, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 476, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,652,000. 
SAVANNAH 
BITER 
BASIN 
The project for construction of the Trotters Shoals Reservoir on 
the Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 52, Eighty-ninth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $84,900,000. Nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued to authorize inclusion of pumped storage power in this project. 
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
Project modifica- 
^he projcct for flood control and improvement of the lower Missis-
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sippl River, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928 (45 Stat. 534) as 
70 2m, 
amended and modified by subsequent Acts of Congress, including the 
79 Stat. 1073. 
Flood Coutrol Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-298), is hereby further 
modified and expanded to include the following items: 
(1) The project for flood protection in the Teche-Vermilion Basins, 
Louisiana, substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 524, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,100,000. 
(2) Bank revetment for the protection of existing industrial facili-
ties along the river below Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where, in the 
discretion of the Chief of Engineers, such bank protection is justified. 
ARKANSAS AND RED RIVERS 
The project for water quality control in the Arkansas and Red River 
Basin, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, designated as Part I is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 110, Eighty-
ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $46,400,000. Actual construc-
tion of the part I works shall not be initiated until the related and 
supporting works of part I I have been authorized by Congress. 
OUACHITA RIVER BASIN 
The project for Bayou Bartholomew, Arkansas and Louisiana, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 506, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,360,000. 
The project o
f 
or flood protection on the Ouachita River at Monroe, 
79 Stat. 1077. 
Loulslaua, authorized in section 204 of the Flood Control Act of 1965, 
is hereby modified to provide for construction in accordance with plan 
B in House Document Numbered 328, Eighty-eighth Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $1,160,000. 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River between 
river mile 195 and mile 300, Illinois and Missouri, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
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Engineers in House Document Numbered 510, P2ighty-ninth Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $7,193,000. 
OHIO 
RIVP:R 
B A S I N 
The project for Little Sandy River and Tygarts Creek, Kentucky, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 517, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $15,000,000. 
The project for Taylorsville Reservoir, Salt River, Kentucky, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 502, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $24,800,000. 
The project for Stonewall Jackson Reservoir, West Fork River, 
West Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document 
Numbered 109, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $34,-
500,000. 
MERAMEC RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection and other purposes in the Meramec 
River Basin, Missouri, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 525, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $4:5,971,000: Provided, That construction of this project shall 
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not be initiated until the President has approved a report prepared 
by the Secretary of the Army reexamining the basis on which the 
project was formulated and the arrangements for cost sharing. 
GREAT LAKES BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Maumee River at Ottawa, 
Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
485, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,413,000. 
The project for flood protection on Red Creek, Monroe County, New 
York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
107, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,430,000. 
PAJARO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Pajaro River, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 491, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $11,890,000. 
K L A M A T H RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Klamath River at and in the 
vicinity of Klamath, California, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 478, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $2,460,000. 
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Boise River, vicinity of Boise, 
Idaho, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the rec-
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[80 STAT. 
ommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 486, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,576,000. 
SACRAMENTO RIVER BASIN 
The project for Marysville Dam and Reservoir, Yuba River Basin, 
California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 501, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$132,900,000. 
RUSSIAN RIVER BASIN 
The project for Knights Valley, Russian River Basin, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 518, 
Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $166,800,000. 
San Francisco 
Bay area. 
76 Stat. 1191. 
Libby Dam and 
Reservoir project, 
Mont. 
School facili-
ties. 
Flood hazards, 
etc., studies. 
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SKAGIT RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Skagit River, Washington, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
483, Eighty-ninth Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,804,000. 
SEC. 204. The second paragraph under the heading "San Francisco 
Bay Area" in section 203 of the Flood Control Act of 1962 is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
"The project for Corte Madera Creek, Marin County, California, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 545, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,790,000. 
Local 
interests shall contribute in cash 1.5 per centum of the Federal con-
struction cost of the Ross Valley Unit, a contribution presently esti-
mated at $110,000." 
SEC. 205. The Secretary of the Army acting through the Chief of 
Engineers is authorized to provide such school facilities as he may 
deem necessary for the education of dependents of persons engaged 
on the construction of the Libby Dam and Reservoir project, Mon-
tana, and to pay for the same from any funds available for such 
project. 
When he determines it to be in the public interest, the 
Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, may enter into 
cooperative arrangements with local agencies for the operation of 
such Government facilities, for the expansion of local facilities at 
Federal expense, and for contributions by the Federal Government 
to cover the increased cost to local agencies of providing the educa-
tional services required by the Government. 
SEC. 206. Section 206 of the Flood Control Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 
500) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 206. (a) In recognition of the increasing use and development 
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 develop-
ment, and as a basis for avoiding future flood hazards by regulation 
of use by States and political subdivisions thereof, and to assure that 
Federal departments and agencies may take proper cognizance of 
flood hazards, the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engi-
neers, 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 of Federal and non-Federal interests 
and agencies in the use of flood plain areas; and to provide advice 
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to other Fecleial ajjeiicies and local interests for their use in planning 
io ameliorate the flood hazard. Surveys and guides will be made for 
States and political subdivisions thereof only upon the request of a 
State or a political subdivision thereof, and upon approval by the 
Chief of Engineers, and such information and advice provided them 
only upon such request and approval. 
"(b) The Secretary of the Army is authorized to expend Jiot to 
Appropriation. 
exceed $7,000,000 per fiscal year for the compilation and dissemina-
tion of information under this section." 
SEC. 207. The project for the improvement of the Mississippi Eiver tribufin^T^"^^^^^ 
below Cape Girardeau with respect to the West Tennessee tributaries, 
Gas lines, re-
authorized in the Flood Control Act of 1948, is hereby modified to ^°g2*s°at ii78 
provide that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, shall, subsequent to enactment of this Act, relocate at 
Federal expense all gas transmission lines required to be relocated 
by this project, or at his discretion, reimburse local interests for such 
I'elocations made by them. 
SEC. 208. Section 2 of the Act of June 28, 1879 (21 Stat. 37; 8H Mississippi 
IJ.S.C. 642), is amended (1) by inserting in the third sentence thereof ^•onl,l°1'^'^' 
after "and the commissioners appointed under this Act" a comma and pointme'nt, etc. 
the following: "except those appointed from civil life," and (2) by 
adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Each com-
missioner appointed from civil life after the date of enactment of this 
sentence shall be appointed for a term of nine years." 
SEC. 209. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and n^foVc^ntroTand 
directed to cause surveys for flood control and allied purposes, includ- aiiied purposes. 
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 
Reports to con-
survey authorized by this section are submitted to Congress, no sup- ^'•^^^• 
plemental or additional report or estimate shall be made unless author-
ized 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 sub-
mitted to Congress, if such review is required by the national defense 
or by changed physical or economic conditions. 
Watersheds and streams of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, 
with respect to a framework plan for developing water resources of 
the region. 
Watersheds and streams within the alluvial valley of the Mississippi 
River below Cairo, Illinois, with respect to a framework plan for 
developing water resources of the region. 
Watersheds and streams draining into the Great Lakes including 
the lake areas within the United States, and into the St. Lawrence 
River at points within the United States with respect to a framework 
plan for developing water resources of the region. 
The Souris River and the Red River of the north and tributaries 
within the United States, including adjacent streams in Minnesota 
draining into Canada, with respect to a framework plan for develop-
ing water resources of the region. 
The Arkansas, White, and Red Rivers and tributaries, exclusive of 
their drainage lying in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River, 
with respect to a framework plan for developing water i-esources of 
t he region. 
Watersheds and streams and their tributaries which drain into the 
Gulf of Mexico along the coastline of Texas, exclusive of the Rio 
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PUBLIC LAW 89-790-NOV. 7, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Lower Missis-
sippi. 
Availability of 
funds. 
79 Stat. 1077. 
Eel River, Calif., 
reimbursement for 
protective works. 
Citation of title. 
Grande River, with respect to a framework plan for developing water 
resources of the region. 
Watersheds and streams of Hawaii, with respect to a framework 
plan for developing water resources of the region. 
Watersheds and streams of Alaska, with respect to a framework 
plan for developing water resources of the region. 
Great South Bay, New York, including the waters of adjoining lesser 
bays and inlets with respect to water utilization and control. 
Such 
investigations and study shall include, but not be limited to, naviga-
tion, fisheries, flood control, control of noxious weeds, water pollution, 
water quality control, beach erosion, and recreation. 
Cibolo Creek, in and near the community of Presidio, Texas. 
Pacific Palisades Area at and in the vicinity of Los Angeles County, 
California, study of landslides, soil erosion, surface and subsurface 
drainage conditions, flood control and seismic disturbances. 
Such 
study to be made in cooperation with the United States Geological 
Survey of the Department of the Interior. 
Sprmg Valley Creek, Sweetwater River, California. 
SEC. 210. The last sentence of the first paragraph under the heading 
"Lower Mississippi River Basin" in section 204 of the Flood Control 
Act of 1965 is hereby amended to read as follows: "The monetary 
authorization for the lower Mississippi River project authorized by 
this Act shall be combined with the overall monetary authorization 
heretofore made available for prosecution of the entire lower Missis-
sippi River and tributaries project and be available for application to 
any portion of the entire project." 
SEC. 211. The Secretary of the Army shall reimburse any common 
carrier by railroad for the cost of protective works constructed by such 
carrier during the year 1966 along the banks of the Eel River, Cali-
fornia, to deter recurrence of damage to land banks by floods or high 
waters, but such reimbursement shall not exceed $1,200,000. 
SEC. 212. Title I I of this Act may be cited as the "Flood Control 
Act of 1966". 
Approved November 7, 1966. 
November 7, 1966 
[ H . R . 14604] 
Public Law 89-790 
AN ACT 
T<» siuthori/H ii study <
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f facilities and services to i)e furnished visitors and 
students coniintr to the Nation's Capital. 
Be it enactejl by the ^Sermte iind Houne of Rei)reHe'ntatire.s of the 
Nation's Capital, I'nited States of Amenca m CongresH anHewhled^ That tliere is hereby 
"'stud" commis-^" Created a Study Commission which shall make a full and complete 
sion. 
investigation and study of sites and plans to provide facilities and 
services for visitors and students coming to the Nation's Capital. 
Such study may include [)rovision for the following activities and 
services: 
(1) exhibits, lectures, films, and displays for 
informing, 
instructing, and orienting visitors respecting the history, growth, 
development of the Nation, the Nation's Capital, and the orga-
nization and oj^eration of the Federal Government in all its 
branches; 
(2) exhibits and displays by the individual States, territories, 
possessions, and the District of (^olumbia with respect to their his-
tory, resources, scenic attractions, and other appropriate matters;