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 83-780 (H.R.9859), enacted 09/03/1954

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Interest on judg-
ments. 
Pees. 
SEC. 57. The last sentence of subsection (b) of section 2516 of Title 
28, United States Code, is amended by inserting immediately after 
the word "allowed" where it appears in such sentence the words "for 
any period", so that such subsection will read as follows: 
"(b) Interest on judgments against the United States affirmed 
by the Supreme Court after review on petition of the United States 
shall be paid at the rate of four percent per annum from the date of 
the filing of the transcript of the judgment in the Treasury Depart-
ment to the date of the mandate of affirmance. 
Such interest shall 
not be allowed for any period after the term of the Supreme Court 
at which the judgment was affirmed.". 
SEC. 58. Subsection (a) of section 2520 of Title 28, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out where it appears in such subsection 
the words "and the hearing of any case before the court, a judge, or a 
commissioner", so that such subsection will read as follows: 
"(a) The Court of Claims shall by rules impose a fee not exceeding 
$10, for the filing of any petition.". 
SEC. 59. (a) Chapter 165 of Title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof a new section to be designated as section 
2521 entitled "Subpoenas" and to read as follows: 
"§ 2521. 
Subpoenas 
"Subpoenas requiring the attendance of parties or witnesses and sub-
poenas requiring the production of books, papers, documents or tangi-
ble things by any party or witness having custody or control thereof, 
may be issued for purposes of discovery or for use of the things pro-
duced as evidence in accordance with the rules and orders of the court. 
Such subpoenas shall be issued and served and compliance therewith 
shall be compelled as provided in the rules and orders of the court.". 
(b) The analysis to chapter 165 of Title 28, United States Code, 
immediately preceding section 2501 of such title, is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof a new item 2521 to read as follows: 
''2521. Subpoenas.". 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
September 3, 1954 
[H. R. 9859] 
Public Law 780 
CHAPTER 1264 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works 
on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes. 
River and Harbor 
Act of 1954. 
59 Stat. 10. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ 
TITLE I—RIVERS 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 the conditions 
recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports here-
inafter designated: Provided^ That the provisions of section 1 of the 
River and Harbor Act approved March 2,1945 (Public, Numbered 14, 
Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall govern with respect to 
projects authorized in this title; and the procedures therein set forth 
with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of improvement 
for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and purposes inci-
dental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full: 
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Lubec Channel, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 243, Eighty-
first Congress, at an estimated cost of $74,000; 
Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River, Maine and New Hamp-
sliire: House Document Numbered 556, Eighty-second Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $952,000; 
Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 568, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $65,000: Provided^ That 
local interests contribute in cash the cost of dredging the easterly three 
hundred feet of the Municipal Channel to a depth of twenty-two feet, 
presently estimated to cost $4,700, before the work is undertaken; 
Weymouth Fore River, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
555, fiighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,400,000; 
Town River, Quincy, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
108, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $525,000; 
Scituate Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 241, 
Eiffhty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $375,000; 
Fall River Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
405, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $694,000; 
Bullocks Point Cove, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 
242, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $166,400; 
Sakonnet Harbor, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 436, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $555,400: Provided^ 
That local interests contribute in cash, 4 per centum of the cost of 
the project, presently estimated as $23,000; 
Patchogue River, Connecticut: House Document Numbered 164, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $135,000; 
Westport Harbor and Saugatuck River, Connecticut; House Docu-
ment Numbered 488, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$112,500; 
Westchester Creek, New York: House Document Numbered 92, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $32,200; 
Hudson River, New York: House Document Numbered 228, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $31,928,000; 
Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek, New Jersey: House Document 
Numbered 89, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$138,000; 
Hackensack River, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 252, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,973,900; 
Delaware River, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware: In 
accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Engineers for 
Rivers and Harbors in House Document Numbered 358, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $91,389,000; 
Mispillion River, Delaware: Senate Document Numbered 229, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $469,400; 
Inland Waterway from Delaware River to Chesapeake Bay, Dela-
ware and Maryland: Senate Document Numbered 123, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $101,000,000: Provided^ That the 
standard of local contribution for the construction of all bridges, 
including approaches thereto, required by the project shall be the same 
standard heretofore applied to the construction of St. Georges Bridge; 
Queenstown Harbor, Maryland: House Document Numbered 718, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $31,900; 
Little Creek, Kent Island, Queen Anne County, Maryland: House 
Document Numbered 715, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $23,000; 
Anchorage at Lowes Wharf, Talbot County, Maryland: House 
Document Numbered 90, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $29,000; 
Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island. 
Connecticut. 
New York. 
New Jersey. 
Delaware. 
Maryland. 
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Virginia. 
North Carolina. 
64 Stat. 165. 
South Carolina. 
Georgia. 
Florida. 
Nanticoke River, Bivalve, Wicomico County, Maryland: House 
Document Numbered 91, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $192,600; 
Webster Cove, Somerset County, Maryland: House 
Document 
Numbered 619, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,300; 
Crisfield Harbor, Maryland: House Document Numbered 435, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $101,750: Provided^ 
That the cash contribution required of local interests shall be the 
difference in Federal costs between plans 1 and 2 at the time the proj-
ect is undertaken; 
Rhodes Point to Tylerton, Somerset County, Maryland: House 
Document Numbered 51, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $45,100; 
Pocomoke River, Maryland: House Document Numbered 486, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $678,300; 
Ocean City Harbor and Inlet and Sinepuxent Bay, Maryland: 
House Document Numbered 444, Eighty-second Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $704,000; 
Parrotts Creek, Virginia: House Document Numbered 46, Eighty-
second Congress, at an estimated cost of $38,700; 
Norfolk Harbor and Thimble Shoal Channel, Virginia: Senate 
Document Numbered 122, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $6,138,700; 
Deep Creek, Accomack County, Virginia: House Document Num-
bered 477, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $95,000; 
Oyster Channel, Virginia: Senate Document Numbered 49, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $75,200; 
Wallace Channel, Pamlico Sound, North Carolina: House Docu-
ment Numbered 453, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$108,000; 
Smiths Creek, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 170, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $102,000; 
Channel from Hatteras Inlet to Hatteras, and Rollinson Channel, 
North Carolina: House Document Numbered 411, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $175,000; 
Peltier Creek, North Carolina, to Intracoastal Waterway: House 
Document Numbered 379, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $43,200; 
The existing modified project for Wilmington Harbor, North 
Carolina, authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved May 
17, 1950, in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 87, Eighty-first Congress, 
is hereby further modified to provide that the Secretary of the Army 
shall reimburse local interests for such work as they may have done 
upon widening of the transition channel at the lower end of the 
anchorage basin, subsequent to May 17,1950, insofar as the same shall 
be approved by the Chief of Engineers and found to have been done 
in accordance with the project modification adopted in said Act, 
provided that such payment shall not exceed the sum of $65,000; 
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: Senate Document Numbered 
136, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $200,000; 
Channel Port Royal Sound to Beaufort, South Carolina: House 
Document Numbered 469, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $765,000; 
Savannah Harbor, Georgia: House Document Numbered 110, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $414,900; 
Rice Creek, Putnam County, Florida: House Document Numbered 
446, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $82,200; 
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Hillsboro River, Florida: House Document Numbered 567, Eighty-
first Congress, at an estimated cost of $16,600; 
Carrabelle Harbor, Florida: House Document Numbered 451, 
Eighty-third Congress (maintenance of existing channel) ; 
Apalachicola Bay, Florida: House Document Numbered 156, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $98,000; 
Apalachicola Bay, Florida, channel across St. George Island: House 
Document Numbered 557, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $635,700; 
St. Joseph Bay, Florida: House Document Numbered 595, Eighty-
first Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,312,000; 
Mobile Harbor, Alabama: House Document Numbered 74, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,778,000; 
Dauphin Island Bay, Alabama: House Document Numbered 394, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $70,000; 
Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: Modification of existing project 
in accordance with plans on file in the Office of the Chief of Engi-
neers, at an estimated cost of $877,000; 
Bayou Segnette Waterway, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 
413, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $520,000; 
Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas: Senate Document Numbered 80, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,875,000; 
Guadalupe Kiver at Seadrift, Texas: House Document Numbered 
478, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $74,300; 
Aransas Pass, Texas, in connection with the Gulf Intracoastal 
Waterway: House Document Numbered 376, Eighty-third Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $30,700; 
Turtle Cove, Texas: House Document Numbered 654, Eighty-first 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $40,000; 
Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas: House Document 
Numbered 89, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $829,100: 
Provided^ That work already performed by local interests on this 
project, in accordance with recommended plan, may be credited to the 
cash contribution required of local interests; 
Port Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway, Texas: House Document 
Numbered 487, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $180,000; 
Mississippi River at Louisiana, Missouri: House Document Num-
bered 251, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $82,600; 
Mississippi River at Chester, Illinois: House Document Numbered 
230, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $65,000; 
Crooked Slough Harbor, Winona, Minnesota: House Document 
Numbered 347, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$142,000; 
Cumberland River, Kentucky and Tennessee: Senate Document 
Numbered 81, Eighty-third Congress; and a monetary authorization 
not to exceed the estimated cost of the Dover and Eureka dams as 
described in House Document Numbered 761, Seventy-ninth Congress, 
"Cumberland River and its tributaries, Tennessee and Kentucky", 
authorized by the River and Harbor Act of July 24, 1946, is hereby 
authorized to be expended for partial accomplishment of the project 
hereby approved: Provided^ That such authorization shall include 
the acquisition of lands necessary for wildlife purposes as outlined 
in said Senate Document Numbered 81; 
Green and Barren Rivers, Kentucky: Senate Document Numbered 
82, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,434,000 for 
channel dredging and fender system work; 
Knife River Harbor, Minnesota: House Document Numbered 463, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an additional estimated cost of $219,900; 
Alabama. 
Mississippi. 
Louisiana. 
Texas. 
Missouri. 
Illinois. 
Minnesota. 
K e n t u c k y and 
Tennessee. 
60 Stat. 636. 
Kentucky. 
Minnesota. 
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Wisconsin. 
Michigan. 
P enns yl 
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New York. 
California. 
Oregon. 
Cornucopia Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 434, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $220,000; 
Sheboygan Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 554, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $217,200; 
Holland Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 282, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $574,400: Pro'vided^ 
That local interests will contribute 25 per centum of the cost of dredg-
ing Section B, but not to exceed $45,500, in addition to the local co-
operation required by the project document; 
Crooked and Indian Rivers, Michigan: House Document Numbered 
142, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $225,000: 
Saginaw River, Michigan: In accordance with the report of the 
Chief of Engineers, dated June 7, 1954, at an estimated cost of 
$4,496,800; 
Toledo Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 620, Eighty-first 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $512,000; 
Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 486, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,900,000; 
Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania: House Document Numbered 345, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $174,000; 
Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New York: House 
Document Numbered 423, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $270,000; 
Little River at Cayuga Island, Niagara Falls, New York: House 
Document Numbered 246, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $36,900; 
Oswego Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 487, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,459,000; 
Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, California: House Docu-
ment Numbered 161, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$896,500: Provided^ That the Secretary of the Army is hereby author-
ized to reimburse local interests for such work as they may have 
done upon this project prior to July 1, 1953, at actual cost to local 
interests insofar as the same shall be approved by the Chief of Engi-
neers and found to have been done in accordance with the project 
hereby adopted: Provided further^ That such reimbursement shall 
be subject to appropriations applicable thereto or funds availablci, 
therefor and shall not take precedence over other pending projects of 
higher priority for harbor improvement: And provided 
further^ 
That such payments shall not exceed the sum of $500,000; 
Playa del Rey Inlet and Harbor, Venice, California: House Docu-
ment Numbered 389, Eighty-third Congress: Provided^ That Fed-
eral participation in the provision of entrance jetties, entrance chan-
nel, interior channel and central basin recommended in the project 
report and presently estimated to cost $7,738,000 shall not exceed 50 
per centum of the cost thereof; 
Port Hueneme, California: 
House Document Numbered 362, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,437,000; 
Richmond Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 395, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,086,000; 
Rogue River, Harbor at Gold Beach, Oregon: Senate Document 
Numbered 83, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,-
758,700; 
Umpqua Harbor and River, Scholfield River at Reedsport, Oregon: 
Senate Document Numbered 133, Eighty-first Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $41,000; 
Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: Senate Document Numbered 128, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,500,000; 
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Columbia River at the mouth, Oregon and Washington : House Doc-
ument Numbered 249, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$8,555,000; 
Columbia River between Chinook, Washington, and the head of 
Sand Island: Senate Document Numbered 8, Eighty-third Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $227,100; 
Willapa River and Harbor and Naselle River, Washington: House 
Document Numbered 425, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $977,000; 
Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington: House Document 
Numbered 412, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$421,800; 
Grays Harbor and Chehalis River (Westhaven Breakwater), 
Washington: In accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers, 
dated May 27, 1954, at an estimated cost of $323,700; 
Anacortes Harbor, Washington: Senate Document Numbered 102, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $179,300; 
Neah Bay, Washington: House Document Numbered 404, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $139,250; 
Bellingham Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 558, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,366,650; 
Blaine Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 240, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $436,000; 
Shilshole Bay, Seattle, Washington: House Document Numbered 
536, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,397,300; 
Tacoma Harbor, Washington: Modification of existing project to 
provide for thirty-foot channel in Port Industrial (Wapato) Water-
way, in accordance with plans on file in the office of the Chief of Engi-
neers, at an estimated cost of $o34,200; 
Port Angeles Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 
155, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $477,900; 
Everett Harbor and Snohomish River, Washington: House Docu-
ment Numbered 569, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$395,500; 
Quillayute River, Washington: House Document Numbered 579, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $425,550; 
Sitka Harbor, Alaska: House Document Numbered 414, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $41,500; 
Dry Pass, Alaska: House Document Numbered 414, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,419,800; 
Neva Strait, Alaska: House Document Numbered 414, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $224,400; 
Petersburg Harbor, Alaska: In accordance with the report of the 
Chief of Engineers, dated April 8, 1954, at an estimated cost of 
$40,000; 
Pelican Harbor, Alaska: In accordance with the report of the Chief 
of Engineers, dated April 8, 1954, at an estimated cost of $270,000; 
Ketchikan Harbor, Alaska: In accordance with the report of the 
Chief of Engineers, dated April 8, 1954, at an estimated cost of 
$2,947,900; 
Rocky Pass in Keku Strait, Alaska: In accordance with the report 
of the Chief of Engineers, dated April 8, 1954, at an estimated cost 
of $214,000; 
Seward Harbor, Alaska: House Document Numbered 182, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $81,200; 
Valdez Harbor, Alaska: House Document Numbered 182, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $116,600; 
Kodiak Harbor, Alaska: House Document Numbered 465, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,685,000; 
O r e g o n 
Washington. 
Washington. 
Alaska. 
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New Hampshire. 
Massachusetts. 
Rhode Island. 
Connecticut. 
New Jersey. 
Virginia. 
Florida, 
Illinois. 
Ohio. 
Pennsylvania. 
New York. 
California. 
Honolulu Harbor, Territory of Hawaii: House Document Num-
bered 717, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,022,000; 
Nawiliwili and Port Allen Harbors, Territory of Hawaii: House 
Document Numbered 453, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $1,166,400; 
BEACH EROSION 
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire: House Document Numbered 
325, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $140,000; 
Lynn-Nahant Beach, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
134, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $189,000; 
Revere Beach, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 146, 
Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $402,900; 
Quincy Shore Beach, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
145, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $409,000; 
South Shore, State of Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 
490, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $166,550; 
Hammonassett River to East River (Area 2), Connecticut: House 
Document Numbered 474, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $166,600 for Hammonassett Beach; $20,400 for Middle Beach; 
New Haven Harbor to Housatonic River (Area 3), Connecticut: 
House Document Numbered 203, Eighty-third Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $84,600 for Prospect Beach; $42,400 for Woodmont 
Shore; $13,100 for Gulf Beach; and $18,300 for Silver Beach to Cedar 
Beach; 
Housatonic River to Ash Creek (Area 7), Connecticut: House 
Document Numbered 248, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $26,500 for Short Beach; and $119,000 for Seaside Park; 
Atlantic City, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 538, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,044,000; 
Ocean City, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 184, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $105,000; 
Cold Spring Inlet (Cape May Harbor), New Jersey: House Docu-
ment Numbered 206, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$260,000; 
Virginia Beach, Virginia: House Document Numbered 186, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $525,514; 
Pinellas County, Florida: House Document Numbered 380, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $34,300; 
Illinois Shore of Lake Michigan: House Document Numbered 28, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,180,400; 
Vermilion to Sheffield Lake Village, Ohio: House Document Num-
bered 229, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $185,000; 
Cleveland and Lakewood, Ohio: House Document Numbered 502, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,275,000 for Edgewater 
Park; and $68,900 for White City Park; 
Presque Isle Peninsula, Erie, Pennsylvania: House Document Num-
bered 231, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,006,000; 
Selkirk Shores State Park, Lake Ontario, New York: House Docu-
ment Numbered 343, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$136,500; 
Point Mugu to San Pedro Breakwater, California: House Document 
Numbered 277, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,874,000; 
Anaheim Bay Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 349, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $65,700 for Seal Beach; 
and $91,600 for Surfside; 
Carpenteria to Point Mugu, California: House Document Num-
bered 29, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $73,700; 
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Waikiki Beach, Territory of Hawaii: House Document Numbered 
227, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $283,700. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to reim-
burse 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 was 
approved by the Chief of Engineers as being in accordance with the 
projects hereby adopted: Provided further^ That such reimbursement 
shall be subject to appropriations applicable thereto for funds avail-
able therefor and shall not take precedence over other pending projects 
of higher priority for improvements. 
SEC. 103. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made 
at the following-named localities, and subject to all applicable pro-
visions of section 110 of the River and Harbor Act of 1950: 
Eastern River, at and in the vicinity of Orland, Maine; 
Southwest Harbor, Maine; 
Vicinity of Wells Beach and Drakes Island, Maine; 
Channel from the Gulf of Mexico into Choctawatchee Bay, 
Florida, in the vicinity of Point Washington; 
Lake Tarpon (formerly Lake Butler), Florida, to determine 
the cause of salt water intrusion and corrective measures with 
respect thereto; and 
Chipola River, Florida, for measures to maintain satisfactory 
water levels in the Dead Lakes; 
Big Sandy River and Tug and Levisa Forks in Kentucky, West 
Virginia, and Virginia. 
SEC. 104. The consent of Congress is hereby granted to the city of 
Mobile, Alabama, and the State of Alabama, their successors and 
assigns, for the closing of Garrows Bend Channel, in the county of 
Mobile, Alabama, by the construction and operation of an earth-filled 
causeway across said channel in the county of Mobile, in the State of 
Alabama: Provided^ That the work on said causeway shall not be 
commenced until the plans and location therefor have been filed with 
and approved by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, and 
by the Secretary of the Army. 
This provision shall be null and void 
unless the actual construction of the causeway hereby authorized is 
commenced within three years and completed within five years from 
the date of this Act and the right to alter, amend, or repeal this pro-
vision is hereby expressly reserved. 
SEC. 105. The authorization of the improvement of the Intracoastal 
Waterway from the Caloosahatchee River to the Anclote River 
(House Document Numbered 371, Seventy-sixth Congress) authorized 
in the River and Harbor Act of 1945 and modified by the River and 
Harbor Act of 1948 and the River and Harbor Act of 1950 is further 
modified so as to authorize the use of alternate route C-1 in the 
Venice and Lemon Bay, Florida, area, as designated in plans of the 
Corps of Engineers. 
The Chief of Engineers is directed to report to the Congress prior 
to request for appropriation to construct this part of the project his 
recommendation as to the fair amount of local contribution in the 
light of the changed condition. 
Provisions as to local contribution 
based on these recommendations shall become effective when approved 
by the Public Works Committees of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives. 
SEC. 106. That the requirement, that local interests provide the ferries 
and bridges required for land traffic across the lateral and terminal 
canals, with respect to the river and harbor project authorized by the 
Hawaii. 
R e i m bursemem: 
to local interests,, 
authorization. 
Preliminary e x-
a m i n a t i o n s and 
survey s , author! -
zation. 
64 Stat. 168. 
Florida. 
Kentucky, West 
Virginia, and Vir-
ginia. 
Causeway. 
Alabama. 
I n t r a c o a s t a l 
Waterway, Fla. 
59 Stat. 17: 62 
Stat. 1173; 64 Stat. 
168. 
Report to C o n -
gress. 
Mississippi. 
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Act of August 30,1935 (49 Stat. 1028), on the Pearl River, Mississippi, 
below Jackson, shall hereafter be ineffective: Provided,, That local 
interests furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army 
that they will hold and save the United States free from any claim for 
damage which might result from deprivation of access to the area. 
Short tiue. 
gEC. 107. Title I may be cited as the "River and Harbor Act of 
1954". 
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TITLE II—FLOOD CONTROL 
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52 Stat. 1215. 
SEC. 201. That section 3 of the Act approved June 22,1936 (Public, 
Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended by section 2 of 
the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public, Numbered 761, Seventy-fifth 
Congress), shall apply to all works authorized in this title except that 
for any channel improvement or channel rectification project, pro-
visions (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 herein adopted 
requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from the date on 
which local interests are notified in writing by the Department of the 
Army of the requirements of local cooperation, unless said interests 
shall within said time furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary 
of the Army that the required cooperation will be furnished. 
SEO. 202. The provisions of section 1 of the Act of December 22, 
58 Stat. 887. 
1944. (PubUc, Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, second ses-
sion), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this Act, 
and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, 
or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control 
and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto shall apply as if 
herein set forth in full. 
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that the fol-
lowing provisions shall be observed: 
No project or any modification not authorized, of a project for 
flood control or rivers and harbors, shall be authorized by the Con-
gress unless a report for such project or modification has been pre-
viously submitted by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in 
conformity with existing law. 
SEC. 203. The following works of improvement for the benefit of 
navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters and other pur-
poses are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the 
Chief of Engineers in accordance with the plans in the respective 
reports hereinafter designated and subject to the conditions set forth 
therein: 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: ATid 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. 
CONNECTICUT RIVER BASIN 
That the plan for the control of floods in the Connecticut River 
Basin, approved by the Act of June 22, 1936 (Public Law Numbered 
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738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended and supplemented, is 
hereby modified to provide for the construction, under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of 
Engineers, of a flood control reservoir on Otter Brook at South Keene, 
New Hampshire, in lieu of any reservoir or reservoirs heretofore 
authorized. 
That the plan for the West River Basin of the Connecticut River 
in Vermont is hereby modified to consist of three reservoirs at the 
Ball Mountain, The Island, and Townshend sites, in lieu of the plan 
of eight reservoirs authorized in section 10 of the Flood Control Act 
approved December 22, 1944, in general accordance with the plan 
agreed to by the Secretary of the Army, the Chief of Engineers, and 
the Vermont State Water Conservation Board in June 1950; and the 
conditions specified in the plan of the eight reservoirs authorized in 
section 10 of the Flood Control Act approved December 22,1944, shall 
not apply. 
SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Susquehanna River in the vicinity of Endicott, 
Johnson City, and Vestal, New York, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 500, Eighty-first Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $4,469,000. 
The plan for flood protection on the West Branch of the Susque-
hanna River, Pennsylvania and New York, is hereby authorized sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in his report dated June 25, 1954, and there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated the sum of $25,000,000 for partial ac-
complishment of that plan. 
49 Stat. 1572. 
58 Stat. 891. 
Appropri ation. 
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
The authorization for the comprehensive plan for flood control and 
other purposes in central and southern Florida given by the Flood 
Control Act of June 30, 1948, as amended, is hereby modified and 
expanded to include the entire comprehensive plan of improvement 
as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 043, Eightieth Congress, with such modifications thereof as 
the Congress may hereafter authorize, or as in the discretion of the 
Chief of Engineers may be advisable: Provided^ That the conditions 
of local cooperation for the authorized first phase heretofore approved 
by said flood control Act shall apply to that authorized first phase, 
but for all w^ork over and beyond that previous authorization such 
conditions shall apply on an interim basis only until they shall be 
modified as deemed appropriate by the Congress, based on recom-
mendations to be submitted at the earliest practicable date by the 
Chief of Engineers, through the Bureau of the Budget to the Con-
gress: Provided further. That whatever conditions of local coopera-
tion are established by Congress as the result of such recommenda-
tions shall be retroactive to any units of tlie comprehensive plan 
authorized in this Act which may be started prior to establishment 
of the exact conditions of local cooperation: And provided 
further^ 
That in addition to previous authorizations tliere is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $7,000,000 for partial accomplishment 
of said plan. 
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Mis-
sissippi River, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928, as amended and 
modified, is hereby further modified and expanded to include the 
62 Stat. 1175. 
^ p r o p r i ation. 
45 Stat. 534. 
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following items of work and the authorization for said project is 
increased accordingly. 
(a) Control of Old and Atchafalaya Rivers and a lock for navi-
gation substantially as set forth in section X I I I of the report of the 
Mississippi River Commission dated February 2, 1954, and the report 
of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 478, Eighty-
third Congress, with such modifications as the Chief of Engineers 
in his discretion may find advisable at an estimated additional cost 
(exclusive of the navigation lock) of $32,000,000, in addition to the 
$15,000,000 increase in authorization made by subparagraph (a) 
under the title "Lower Mississippi River" in section 204 of the Flood 
64 Stat. 170. 
Control Act, approved May IT, 1950, which $15,000,000 shall be 
applied to the item described in this paragraph: Provided^ That the 
United States shall acquire such lands, rights-of-way and spoil-
disposal areas as may be necessary for construction of the project except 
that local interests shall comply with the provisions of section 3 of 
45 Stat. 535. 
^he Flood Control Act approved May 15, 1928, as amended, with 
regard to the enlargement and extension of the main line Mississippi 
River levee below Shaw, Louisiana: Provided further^ That no flow-
age rights are to be acquired by the United States in connection with 
this item: And provided further^ That when the type and dimensions 
of the required navigation lock are approved by the Chief of Engi-
neers, construction thereof may be initiated with funds herein author-
ized to be appropriated. 
(b) The plan for an adequate channel from the Mississippi River 
via Old and Atchafalaya Rivers to Morgan City, Louisiana, sub-
stantially in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers in 
Senate Document Numbered 53, Eighty-second Congress, at an esti-
mated additional cost of $440,000. 
(c) Modification of the authorized project for the Vicksburg-Yazoo 
area substantially in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engi-
neers in House Document Numbered 85, Eighty-third Congress. 
(d) Modification of the authorized project for the New Madrid 
Floodway substantially in accordance w^ith the recommendation of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 183, Eighty-
third Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,743,000. 
(e) The plan for flood control in the Reelfoot Lake Area, Tennes-
see and Kentucky, substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tion of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated June 17, 1954, at 
an estimated cost of $748,100. 
TRINITY RIVER BASIN, TEXAS 
The project for the Navarro Mills Reservoir on Richland Creek, 
Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated May 28, 
1954, at an estimated cost of $4,969,000. 
BUFFALO BAYOU BASIN, TEXAS 
The project for Buffalo Bayou and tributaries, to provide flood pro-
tection for the city of Houston, Texas, as authorized by the Flood 
53 Stat. 1414. 
Coutrol Act approved August 11, 1939, and previous Acts, is hereby 
modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 250, Eighty-third 
Congress, at an additional estimated cost of $16,191,600. 
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BRAZOS RIVER BASIN, TEXAS 
The plan for flood protection and other purposes on the Brazos 
River and tributaries, Oyster Creek and Jones Creek, Texas, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 535, Eighty-
first Congress, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the 
Appropriation, 
sum of $40,000,000 for partial accomplishment of that plan. 
The project for the Belton Reservoir, Leon River, Texas, authorized 
by the Flood Control Act of 1946, is hereby modified to provide fpr 
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the reservation, without reimbursement, of twelve thousand acre-feet 
of conservation storage to be used as a permanent source of water 
supply for Fort Hood and adjacent military installations. 
GUADALUPE AND SAN ANTONIO RIVERS, TEXAS 
The project for flood protection on the Guadalupe and San Antonio 
Rivers, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 344, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$30,254,000. 
GUADALUPE RIVER, TEXAS 
The works of improvement on Guadalupe River, Texas, authorized 
by section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, 
repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, 
and for other purposes", approved March 2,1945 (59 Stat. 17), insofar 
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as such authorization provides for construction of the Canyon Dam 
and Reservoir, is hereby modified to provide for the construction, 
operation, and maintenance under the direction of the Secretary of the 
Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the Canyon Dam 
and Reservoir in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
The 
Canyon Dam and Reservoir shall be constructed with a gross reservoir 
capacity of approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand acre-
feet (of which three hundred and eighty thousand acre-feet shall be 
for flood control and sedimentation) for purposes of flood control, 
conservation, stream-flow regulation, and provision for sedimentation, 
and, if practicable, for purposes of development of electric power, at 
an estimated total cost of $13,300,000. 
The Chief of Engineers, in consultation with the Federal Power 
Commission, shall at appropriate times allocate to local interests such 
of the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the Canyon 
Dam and Reservoir as may appropriately be allocated to water con-
servation, stream-flow regulation, and development of electric power. 
Such allocation shall be made in accordance with the separable costs-
remaining benefits method, taking into account the net increase in 
regulated flow which is practical with the storage capacity which will 
be provided by the Canyon Dam and Reservoir for water conservation 
and stream-flow regulation. 
No allocation of costs with respect to 
any installation for development of electric power shall be made under 
this section unless the Chief of Engineers determines that such installa-
tion will actually be constructed. 
The costs allocated to local interests under this section shall be not 
less than $1,400,000, and shall be paid by them to the Chief of Engi-
neers as provided in this Act. The portion of such costs determined by 
the Chief of Engineers to be allocable to operation and maintenance 
of Canyon Dam and Reservoir shall be deposited to the credit of the 
appropriation available for maintenance and operation of such dam 
and used by the Chief of Engineers for such operation and mainte-
nance ; the $1,400,000 to be contributed during the construction period 
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shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation available for con-
struction of the dam and used by the Chief of Engineers for that pur-
pose ; and the balance of such costs determined by the Chief of Engi-
neers to be allocable to construction of Canyon Dam and Reservoir 
shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States. 
Facilities for the development of electric power at Canyon Dam 
and Reservoir may be constructed and operated by the Corps of 
Engineers, or by local interests in accordance with the provisions of 
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gXpeuses of construction, operation, and maintenance of such facili-
ties to be paid by local interests and with such power to be made 
available to such local interests. 
Of the contributions to be paid by local interests toward the cost 
of construction of Canyon Dam and Reservoir, $1,400,000 shall be 
paid in such manner, and at such time or times during the period 
of such construction, as the Chief of Engineers shall determine. The 
remainder of the contributions allocated to local interests, with inter-
est thereon at the rate of 2i^ per centum per annum, shall be paid 
as prescribed by the Chief of Engineers over a period not in excess 
of fifty years. 
The Chief of Engineers shall enter into an agreement with local 
interests providing for the payments heretofore described and for 
all other matters relating to the operation and maintenance of the 
Canyon Dam and Reservoir which require the cooperation of local 
interests. Such agreement may provide for utilization of the water 
impounded for water conservation and stream-flow regulation for 
development of electric power; except that the agreement shall pro-
vide that the utilization of water for power development shall not 
be allowed to conflict with the flood-control and sedimentation pur-
poses of the Canyon Dam and Reservoir. 
PECOS RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Pecos River, Texas and 
New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Har-
bors, dated March 26, 1954, at an estimated cost of $9,540,000: 
Provided, That no appropriations shall be made for construction of 
Los Esteros Reservoir until satisfactory arrangements have been made 
by the State of New Mexico for the transfer of irrigation storage 
from the Alamagordo Reservoir. 
RIO GRANDE BASIN 
The project for flood protection in the Rio Grande Basin at Albu-
querque, New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 464, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$7,500,000._ 
The project for flood protection on the Rio Hondo River at Roswell, 
New Mexico, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 486, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,658,000. 
W H I T E RIVER BASIN 
The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other pur-
poses for the White River Basin approved by the Flood Control Act 
52 Stat. 1218. 
of Juiic 28, 1938, as amended, is hereby modified to provide for the 
generation of power in conjunction with flood control at the Greers 
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Ferry Reservoir and the addition of Beaver Reservoir for flood control, 
power generation, and other purposes, substantially as recommended 
by the Chief of Engineers in his report dated February 19, 1954. 
ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas River and tribu-
taries at Enid, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 185, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $965,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas River, Conway 
County Drainage and Levee District Numbered 1, Arkansas, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 167, Eighty-
second Congress, at an estimated cost of $230,600. 
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas River, Holla Bend 
Bottom, Arkansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 157, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$312,000. 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River in urban 
areas at Alton, Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 397, Eighty-third Congress, at an additional 
estimated cost of $2,500,000. 
The project for flood protection on Bear Creek at Hannibal, Mis-
souri, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the re-
commendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 435, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,326,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River, Gutten-
berg, Iowa, to Hamburg Bay, Illinois, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of En-
gineers, in House Document Numbered 281, Eighty-third Congress, 
excepting only the improvements recommended for Credit Island and 
for Henderson County Drainage District No. 3, at an estimated cost 
for improvements authorized of $30,551,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River, Fish Lake 
Drainage and Levee District No. 8, Monroe County, Illinois, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 396, Eighty-
third Congress, at an additional estimated cost of $480,000. 
The project on the Mississippi River for local flood protection in 
the Sny Island Levee Drainage District, Illinois, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 247, Eighty-third Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $7,046,300. 
The project for flood protection on the Upper Iowa River, Iowa, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 375. 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $979,600. 
MISSOURI RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to 
be appropriated the sum of $144,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
Appropriation, 
comprehensive plan for the Missouri River Basin to be undertaken by 
the Corps of Engineers, approved by the Act of June 28, 1938, as 
'2 stat. 1218. 
amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. 
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The comprehensive plan for the Missouri River Basin, approved by 
the Act of June 28,1938, and as amended and supplemented, is hereby 
further modified to include the project for flood protection on the 
Kansas River and tributaries, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 642, Eighty-first Congress, 
Appropriation. 
^t an estimated additional cost of $78,710,000, and there is authorized 
to be appropriated such sum in addition to previous authorizations 
for the Missouri Basin plan. 
The comprehensive plan for the Missouri River Basin, approved 
by the Act of June 28, 1938, and as amended and supplemented, is 
hereby further modified to include the project for flood protection on 
the Osage River and tributaries, Missouri and Kansas, substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, 
in House Document Numbered 549, Eighty-first Congress. 
49 Stat. 1588. 
The projcct adopted by the Flood Control Act of June 22, 1936, 
to provide flood protection for the Kansas Citys, Kansas and Missouri, 
as modified and extended by the Flood Control Act of December 22, 
58 Stat. 897. 
1944, is hereby further modified to provide that the Chief of Engineers 
may contribute not to exceed $2,750,000 to the cost of an alternate 
plan of flood protection to be constructed by local interests in the 
lower Armourdale area of the Kansas Citys project: Provided^ That 
the actual amount so paid by the Federal Government shall not exceed 
the estimated Federal cost of the approved Government plan of pro-
tection in this area nor shall it exceed the total actual costs of the 
alternate project reduced by the estimated costs for lands, easements, 
rights-of-way, and public relocations which local interests would 
have been required to bear had the approved Government plan been 
constructed: Provided further^ That the total amount shall be paid 
in installments during progress of the work to satisfactory completion 
of the alternate plan. 
The project for flood protection on the Chariton River, Iowa and 
Missouri, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Num-
bered 561, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $19,612,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Big Sioux River and tribu • 
taries at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of 
Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in its report dated March 15, 1954, 
at an estimated cost of $3,430,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Little Sioux River, Iowa, 
61 Stat. 741. 
authorized by the Act of August 4, 1947, is hereby modified and sup-
plemented substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers, in Senate Document Numbered 127, Eighty-
third Congress, at an additional estimated cost of $10,076,000. 
The general comprehensive plans for flood control and other pur-
poses in the Missouri River Basin set forth in House Document Num-
bered 475 and Senate Document Numbered 191, as revised and coordi-
nated by Senate Document Numbered 247, Seventy-eighth Congress, 
second session, approved in the Flood Control Act of December 22, 
58 Stat. 897. 
1944, are hereby modified to include the payment by the Corps of 
Engineers for construction or provision of adequate water supply 
and sewage facilities in the new relocated municipality of Pollock, 
South Dakota, at a cost not to exceed $200,000, which is to compensate 
for the acquisition of and to replace facilities in the town which are 
located within areas which have been or will be acquired by the 
United States because of the construction of the Oahe Dam and Res-
ervoir project in the basin. 
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The project for flood protection on the Little Missouri River and 
tributaries at Marmarth, North Dakota, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of P]ngi-
neers, in Senate Document Numbered 134, Eighty-first Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $212,300. 
The project for flood protection on the Lower Heart River in the 
vicinity of Mandan, North Dakota, authorized by the Flood Control 
Act of 1946, and modified by the Flood Control Act of 1950, is fur- 
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ther modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations 
of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated July 27, 1954, at an 
estimated cost of $1,727,000. 
COAL CREEK AND TRIBUTARIES, TENNESSEE 
The project for flood protection on Coal Creek and tributaries, 
Tennessee, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document 
Numbered 154, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$745,200. 
OHIO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Sandy Lick Creek at and in 
the vicinity of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 716, Eighty-first Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $570,000. 
The project for flood control and related purposes on the Paint 
Rock River, Alabama, is hereby authorized substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in his report dated June 23, 1954, 
at an estimated cost of $1,001,300: Provided, 
That in lieu of the 
local cooperation recommended in that document, local interests shall 
comply with the provisions of local cooperation contained in section 
3 of the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, as amended, and 
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shall also construct and maintain local drainage works required to 
fully and effectively utilize the improved outlet system, generally as 
outlined in said document. 
KALAMAZOO RIVER, MICHIGAN 
The project for flood protection on the Kalamazoo River at Battle 
Creek, Michigan, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 98, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$4,201,550: Provided, That local contribution toward the project will 
be in accord with the recommendation of the Secretary of the Army 
contained in the aforesaid document. 
LITTLE CALUMET RIVER, INDIANA 
The project for flood protection on the Little Calumet River and 
tributaries, Indiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
M'ith the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Docu-
ment Numbered 153, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $509,900. 
LOS ANGELES RIVER BASIN 
Li addition to previous authorizations there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $12,500,000 for the prosecution of the 
Appropriation, 
comprehensive plan for the Los Angeles-San Gabriel River Basin, and 
Ballona Creek. California, approved in the Act of August 18, 1941, 
^s stat. 647. 
as amended and supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. 
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SANTA MARIA RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Santa Maria Eiver and tribu-
taries, California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 400, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$10,182,000 for levees and channel improvements to be prosecuted 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of 
the Chief of Engineers. 
SAN LORENZO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on San Lorenzo River, California, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 447, 
Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,665,000. 
^propriation. 
58 Stat. 901. 
Appropriation. 
SACRAMENTO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Middle Creek, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 367, 
Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,110,000. 
The plan of improvement for flood control on the American River, 
California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Num-
bered -367, Eighty-first Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,600,000 for 
levees. 
LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $5,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan for the Lower San Joaquin River Basin, Cali-
fornia, approved in the Act of December 22, 1944, as amended and 
supplemented by subsequent Acts of Congress. 
SAN LORENZO CREEK BASIN 
The project for flood protection on San Lorenzo Creek, Alameda 
County, California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 452, Eighty-third Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,790,000. 
TRUCKEE RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Truckee River and tributaries, 
California and Nevada, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report 
dated April 15,1954, at an estimated cost of $791,000: Provided, That 
the authorization for improvement for flood control on Truckee River, 
California and Nevada, contained herein shall not become effective 
unless and until the "Washoe Reclamation Project" on the Truckee 
and Carson Rivers, California and Nevada, shall have been authorized 
pursuant to law. 
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized 
to be appropriated the sum of $180,000,000 for the prosecution of the 
projects and plans for the Columbia River Basin, for which the sum 
of $75,000,000 was authorized in the Flood Control Act approved 
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May 17,1950, and these projects and plans are hereby modified to in-
clude power development in the following projects in tributary basins, 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 531, Eighty-first Congress: 
Cougar Reservoir on South Fork of McKenzie River, Oregon, and 
Green Peter Reservoir on Middle Fork of Santiam River, Oregon, 
including White Bridge reregulating reservoir on Middle Fork of 
Santiam River, Oregon. 
The project for flood protection on Amazon Creek at Eugene and 
vicinity, Oregon, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, and 
modified by the Flood Control Act of 1950, is further modified sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineei's, in Senate Document Numbered 131, Eighty-third Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $893,600. 
64 Stat. 178. 
60 Stat. 650. 
TERRITORY OF ALASKA 
The project for flood protection on Gold Creek and tributaries, 
Alaska, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document 
Numbered 54, Eighty-second Congress, at an estimated cost of $380,000. 
TERRITORY OF H A W A I I 
The project for flood protection on the Wailoa Stream and its trib-
utaries, Island of Hawaii, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 529, Eighty-first Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $347,000. 
SEC. 204. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for flood 
control and allied purposes, including 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 following-named localities: Provided^ That after 
the regular or formal reports made on any examination, survey, 
project, or work underway or proposed are submitted to Congress, 
no supplemental or additional 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 stream 
mentioned in this section until the project for the proposed work 
shall have been adopted by law: 
Ipswich River, Massachusetts. 
Neponset River, Massachusetts. 
Ash and Pine Creeks, Fairfield and vicinity, Connecticut. 
Juniata River at Lewistown and other points in Pennsylvania in 
the interest of flood control. 
Streams in the vicinity of Alice, Texas. 
Devils River and tributaries, Texas. 
Rio Hondo and tributaries, New Mexico. 
Redwood Creek, Humboldt County, California. 
Coos Bay, Oregon. 
SEC. 205. In addition to previous authorizations, the sum of 
$20,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for expenditure 
by the Department of Agriculture for the prosecution of the works of 
Preliminary e x -
a m i n a t i o n s and 
surveys, 
author! -
zation. 
Appropriation. 
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58 Stat. 887. 
55 Stat. 650; 60 
Stat. 642. 
67 Stat. 61. 
33 u s e 701C-3. 
52 Stat. 1226. 
SO Stat. 
Stat. 652. 877; 60 
R e m o V 
debris, etc. 
60 Stat. 642. 
Recreational fa-
cilities in re s er-
voir areas. 
improvement authorized to be carried out by that Department by the 
Flood Control Act of December 22, 1944, as amended. 
SEC. 206. That section 7 of the Act approved August 18, 1941 
(Public, Numbered 228, Seventy-seventh Congress), as amended by 
section 5 of the Act approved July 24, 1946 (Public, Numbered 526, 
Seventy-ninth Congress), as further amended by the Act approved 
June 16, 1953 (Public, Numbered 60, Eighty-third Congress), is 
hereby still further amended to read as follows: 
"That 75 per centum of all moneys received and deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States during any fiscal year on account of the 
leasing of lands acquired by the United States for flood control, navi-
gation, and allied purposes, including the development of hydro-
electric power, shall be paid at the end of such year by the Secretary 
of the Treasury to the State in which such property is situated, to 
be expended as the State legislature may prescribe for the benefit 
of public schools and public roads of the county, or counties, in which 
such property is situated, or for defraying any of the expenses of 
county government in such county or counties, including public obliga-
tions of levee and drainage districts for flood control and drainage 
improvements: Provided^ That when such property is situated in 
more than one State or county, the distributive share to each from the 
proceeds of such property shall be proportional to its area therein." 
SEC. 207. That section 8 of the Flood Control Act approved June 
28,1938, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"'That there is hereby authorized an expenditure as required, from 
any appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for flood control, 
rivers and harbors, and related purposes by the United States, for the 
establishment, operation, and maintenance by the Weather Bureau 
of a network of recording and nonrecording precipitation stations, 
known as the Hydroclimatic Network, whenever in the opinion of the 
Chief of Engineers and the Chief of the Weather Bureau such service 
is advisable in connection with either preliminary examinations and 
surveys or works of improvement authorized by the law for flood con-
trol, rivers and harbors, and related purposes, and the Secretary of 
the Army upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers is 
authorized to allot the Weather Bureau funds for said expenditure." 
SEC. 208. That section 2 of the Flood Control Act of August 28, 
1937, as amended by section 13 of the Flood Control Act of July 24, 
1946, is hereby further amended to read as follow^s: 
"That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to allot not to 
exceed $2,000,000 from any appropriations heretofore or hereafter 
made for any one fiscal year for flood control, for removing accumu-
lated snags and other debris, and clearing and straightening the chan-
nel in navigable streams and tributaries thereof, when in the opinion 
of the Chief of Engineers such work is advisable in the interest of 
flood control: Provided^ That not more than $100,000 shall be expended 
for this purpose for any single tributary from the appropriations for 
any one fiscal year." 
SEC. 209. That section 4 of the Act approved July 24, 1946 (Public, 
Numbered 526, Seventy-ninth Congress), is amended to read as 
follows: 
"The Chief of Engineers, under the supervision of the Secretary 
of the Army, is authorized to construct, maintain, and operate pub-
lic park and recreational facilities in reservoir areas under the control 
of the Department of the Army, and to permit the construction, main-
tenance, and operation of such facilities. The Secretary of the Army 
is also authorized to grant leases of lands, including structures or 
facilities thereon, in reservoir areas for such periods, and upon such 
terms and for such purposes as he may deem reasonable in the public 
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interest: Provided^ That leases to nonprofit organizations for park 
or recreational purposes may be granted at reduced or nominal con-
siderations in recognition of the public service to be rendered in uti-
lizing the leased premises: Provided further^ That preference shall 
be given to Federal, State, or local governmental agencies, and licenses, 
or leases where appropriate, may be granted without monetary con-
siderations, to such agencies for the use of all or any portion of a res-
ervoir area for any public purpose, when the Secretary of the Army 
determines such action to be in the public interest, and for such periods 
of time and upon such conditions as he may find advisable: Arid 'pro-
vided fv/rther^ That in any such lease or license to a Federal, State, or 
local governmental agency which involves lands to be utilized for the 
development and conservation of fish and wildlife, forests, or other 
natural resources, the licensee or lessee may be authorized to cut tim-
ber and harvest crops as may be necessary to further such beneficial 
uses and to collect and utilize the proceeds of any sales of timber and 
crops in the development, conservation, maintenance and utilization 
of such lands. Any balance of proceeds not so utilized shall be paid 
to the United States at such time or times as the Secretary of the Army 
may determine appropriate. The water areas of all such reservoirs 
shall be open to public use generally, without charge, for boating, 
swimming, bathing, fishing, and other recreational purposes, and 
ready access to and exit from such water areas along the shores of 
such reservoirs shall be maintained for general public use, when such 
use is determined by the Secretary of the Army not to be contrary to 
the public interest, all under such rules and regulations as the Secre-
tary of the Army may deem necessary. No use of any area to which 
this section applies shall be permitted which is inconsistent with the 
laws for the protection of fish and game of the State in which such area 
is situated. All moneys received by the United States for leases or 
privileges shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as 
miscellaneous receipts. 
SEC. 210. Title II may be cited as the "Flood Control Act of 1954". 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
Short title. 
Public Law 781 
CHAPTER 1265 
AN ACT 
September 3, 1954 
To amend certain provisions of title XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
[H. R. 9987] 
amended, to facilitate private financing of new ship construction, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it ena.cted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 1101 
of the Merchant Marine Act, 1986, as amended (U. S. C, title 46, sec. 
" stat. 969. 
1271), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 1101. As used in this title— 
"(a) The term 'mortgage' includes a preferred mortgage as defined 
"Mortgage." 
in the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, as amended, and a mortgage which 
46us^c'9'84°' 
will become a preferred mortgage when recorded and endorsed as re-
quired by the Ship Mortgage Act, 1920, as amended; 
"(b) The term 'loan' includes any loan or advance of credit other 
"Loan." 
than a mortgage loan; 
"(c) The term 'vessel' includes all types of passenger, cargo, and 
"Vessei." 
combination passenger-cargo carrying vessels, tankers, tugs, towboats, 
barges, and clredges documented under the laws of the United States, 
and fishing vessels owned by citizens of the United States;