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 87-874 (H.R.13273), enacted 10/23/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-874-OCT. 23, 1962 
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Public Law 87-874 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works 
on rivers and harbors for navigation, flood control, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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 wdth the plans and subject to the 
conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective 
reports hereinafter designated: Provided, That the provisions of sec-
tion 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 projects authorized in this title; and the procedures 
therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works 
of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and 
purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full: 
October 23, 1962 
[H. R. 13273] 
River and Harbor 
Act of 1962. 
59 Stat. 10. 
NAVIGATION 
Narraguagus River, Maine: House Document Numbered 530, Maine. 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $500,000; 
Carvers Harbor, Vinalhaven, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 
118, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $205,000; 
Searsport Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 500, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $700,000; 
Portland Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 216, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,340,000; 
Kennebunk River, Maine: House Document Numbered 459, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $270,000; 
Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River, Maine and New Hamp- 
New Hampshire. 
shire: House Document Numbered 482, Eighty-seventh Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $7,500,000; 
Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 341, Massachusetts. 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,100,000; 
Marblehead Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 
516, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,752,000; 
Chelsea Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 350, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,843,000; 
Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts: Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 126, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $7,050,000; 
Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts: Senate Document Numbered 
124, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,200,000; 
Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 236, 
Rhode island. 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $210,000; 
Great Lakes to Hudson River Waterway, New York: River and 
New York. 
Harbor Committee Document Numbered 20, Seventy-third Congress, 
for the further partial accomplishment of the approved plan there 
is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to sums previously 
authorized, $1,000,000; 
Little Neck Bay, New York: House Document Numbered 510, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,185,000; 
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New Jersey. 
68 Stat. 1248. 
Virginia. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
North Carolina. 
Georgia. 
Florida. 
Alabama. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Mississippi. 
Louisiana. 
60 Stat. 635. 
Flushing Bay and Creek, New York: House Document Numbered 
551, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,695,000; 
Buttermilk Channel, New York: House Document Numbered 483, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,226,000; 
Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, New Jersey (chan-
nels to Port Elizabeth) : Modification of the existing navigation 
project authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954 (Public Law 
780, Eighty-third Congress), House Document Numbered 252, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans being 
prepared by the Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of such 
plans by the Secretary of the Army and the President; 
Raritan River, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 455, 
Eighty-sixth Congress, maintenance; 
Lynnhaven Inlet, Bay, and connecting waters, Virginia: House 
Document Numbered 580, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $1,068,000: Provided^ That nothing in this Act shall be con-
strued as authorizing reimbursement to local interests for the Long 
Creek-Broad Bay Canal Bridge; 
James River, Virginia: House Document Numbered 586, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $39,000,000: Provided^ That 
this authorization shall expire after a period of five years from the 
date of approval of this Act unless the Governor of Virginia has 
endorsed the project within that time: And provided further^ That 
prior to construction, there will be submitted to the Congress a feasi-
bility report which takes account of possible adverse effects of the 
project on seed oyster production; 
Rollinson Channel and channel from Hatteras Inlet to Hatteras, 
North Carolina: House Document Numbered 457, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $652,000; 
Wilmington Harbor, North Carolina: Senate Document Numbered 
114, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,370,000; 
Savannah Harbor, Georgia: Senate Document Numbered 115, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $605,000; 
Canaveral Harbor, Florida: Senate Document Numbered 140, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at the estimated cost of $5,076,000; 
Key West Harbor, Florida: Senate Document Numbered 106, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $820,000; 
Tampa Harbor, Port Sutton and Ybor Channels, Florida: House 
Document Numbered 529, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $997,000; 
Pensacola Harbor, Florida: House Document Numbered 528, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $424,000; 
Walter F. George lock and dam, Alabama: Senate Document Num-
bered 109, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $500,000; 
Holt lock and dam, Alabama: The Secretary of the Army is hereby 
authorized and directed to cause an immediate study to be made under 
the direction of the Chief of Engineers with a view to providing 
hydroelectric power generating facilities in said dam, and his report 
on such study shall be submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of 
the Army within the first period of sixty calendar days of continuous 
session of the Eighty-eighth Congress; 
Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: House Document Numbered 560, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,870,000; 
Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana: 
Senate Document Numbered 36, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $357,000; 
The project, Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico, 
barge channel through Devils Swamp, Louisiana (Baton Rouge 
Harbor), authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1946, in accord-
Texas. 
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ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 321, Eightieth Congress, as amended by the 
Flood Control Act of 1948, is hereby further amended to provide for 
62 stat. 1179. 
the provision as required, of suitable dikes and other retaining 
structures at a Federal cost of $299,500, for the construction and 
future maintenance of the project, in order to provide additional 
industrial sites with water frontage which are now needed to permit 
the normal development and expansion of the industrial and commer-
cial activities of the locality: Provided^ That local interests contribute 
the sum of $100,500 toward the cost of the work; 
Bayous Terrebonne, Petit Caillou, Grand Caillou, Ehi Large, and 
connecting channels, Louisiana, and Atchafalaya River, Morgan City 
to Gulf of Mexico: House Document Numbered 583, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $45,000; 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Louisiana and Texas: House Docu- 
Louisiana and 
ment Numbered 556, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$25,540,000: Provided^ That the authority to make such modifications 
as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, as set 
forth in House Document Numbered 556, Eighty-seventh Congress, 
shall be interpreted to apply to, but not limited to, the improvement of 
the existing channels at proposed channel relocation sites in lieu of 
such relocations; 
Calcasieu River salt water barrier, Louisiana: House Document 
Numbered 582, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
' ' 
$3,310,000: Provided^ That the Corps of Engineers is directed to study 
the question of cost sharing taking into account that measures for miti-
gation of damages from navigation improvements will be a Federal 
responsibility and enhancement effects will be shared on the basis of a 
50 per centum Federal and 50 per centum non-Federal; such cost 
sharing is hereby authorized as determined to be feasible and justified 
by the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of the Army within the first 
period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress 
Report to con-
after the date on which the report is submitted to it unless such report K'^^^-
is disapproved by the Congress; 
Mississippi River at Clarksville, Missouri: House Document Num- 
Missom-i. 
bered 552, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $103,300; 
Sandy Slough, Lincoln County, Missouri: House Document Num-
bered 419, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $195,000; 
Sabine-Neches Waterway, Texas: House Document Numbered 553, 
Texas. 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,830,000; 
Trinity River, Wallisville Reservoir, Texas: House Document Num-
bered 215, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,162,000: 
Provided^ That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing 
the acquisition of additional lands for establishment of a national 
wildlife refuge at the reservoir; 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, channel to Palacios, Texas: House 
< 
Document Numbered 504, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $818,000; 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, channel to Victoria, Texas: House 
Document Numbered 288, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $1,590,000; 
Illinois Waterway, Illinois and Indiana: House Document Num- 
uiinois and 
bered 31, Eighty-sixth Congress, is approved and there is hereby Louisiana. 
authorized the sum of $40,000,000 for initiation and partial accom-
plishment of the project; 
Kaskaskia River, Illinois: Senate Document Numbered 44, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $58,200,000; 
Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis, Minne- 
Minnesota. 
sota: House Document Numbered 513, Eighty-seventh Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $1,205,000; 
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Michigan. 
Wisconsin. 
Illinois. 
Indiana. 
Michigan. 
Ohio. 
Pennsylvania. 
New York. 
California. 
Oregon and 
Washington. 
Ontonagon Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 287, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,741,000; 
Muskegon Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 474, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $609,000; 
Leland Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 413, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $485,000; 
Little Bay De Noc, Gladstone Harbor and Kipling, Michigan: 
House Document Numbered 480, Eightv-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $350,000; 
Green Bay Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 470, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,270,000; 
Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 496, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $673,000; 
Manitowoc Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 479, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $719,000; 
Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 134, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,029,000; 
Chicago Harbor, Illinois: House Document Numbered 485, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,505,000; 
Calumet Harbor and River^ Illinois and Indiana: House Document 
Numbered 581, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$11,464,000; 
New Buffalo Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 481, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $667,000; 
Caseville Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 64, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $327,000; 
Saginaw River, Michigan: House Document Numbered 544, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,780,000; 
Rouge River, Michigan: House Document Numbered 509, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $257,000; 
Huron Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 165, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,557,000; 
Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 527, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $888,000; 
Conneaut Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 415, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,179,000; 
Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania: House Document Numbered 340, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $671,000; 
Buffalo Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 451, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,797,000; 
Great Sodus Bay Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 
138, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $765,000; 
Oswego Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 471, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,180,000; 
Dana Point Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 532, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,730,000; 
Santa Barbara Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 
518, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,000,000; 
Oakland Harbor, California, Fruitvale Avenue Bridge: Senate 
Document Numbered 75, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $1,750,000; 
Oakland Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 353, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,775,000; 
Noyo River and Harbor, California: Senate Document Numbered 
121, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,231,000; 
Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers, Oregon and Washington: 
House Document Numbered 203, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $493,000; 
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Washington and 
Oregon. 
74 Stat. 483. 
New Hampshire. 
New York. 
Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers below Vancouver, Wash-
ington, and Portland, Oregon: House Document Numbered 452, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,100,000; 
Tacoma Harbor, Port Industrial and Hj^lebos Waterways, Wash-
ington : Senate Document Numbered 104, Eighty-seventh Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $2,460,000; 
Kingston Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 417, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $428,000; 
Swinomish Channel, Washington: House Document Numbered 499, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $887,000; 
Kaunakakai Harbor, Molokai, Hawaii: House Document Numbered 
484, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,919,000; 
The project for Hilo Harbor, Hawaii, authorized by Public Law 
645, Eighty-sixth Congress, is hereby modified to provide for adjust-
ment 01 the cash contribution required of local interest in accordance 
with recommendations by the Secretary of the Army and approved by 
the President, such adjustment to be made at the earliest practicable 
date. 
BEACH EROSION 
State of New Hampshire: House Document Numbered 416, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $88,000; 
Fire Island Inlet and shore westerly to Jones Inlet, Long Island, 
New York: Modification of the existing beach erosion control project 
authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (Public Law 500, 
Eighty-fifth Congress), House Document Numbered 411, Eighty- 
72stat.299. 
fifth Congress, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the plans, which will include a sand bypassing system at Fire Island 
Inlet, being prepared by the Chief of Engineers, subject to the 
approval of such plans by the Secretary of the Army and the Presi-
dent; 
Clark Point, New Bedford, Massachusetts: House Document Num-
bered 584, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $60,000; 
Virginia Beach, Virginia: House Document Numbered 382, Eighty-
seventh Congress, periodic nourishment; 
Fort Macon, Atlantic Beach and vicinity. North Carolina: House 
Document Numbered 555, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $194,000; 
Palm Beach County from Martin County line to Lake Worth Inlet 
and from South Lake Worth Inlet to Broward County line, Florida: 
House Document Numbered 164, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $128,800; 
Virginia Key and Key Biscayne, Florida: House Document Num-
bered 561, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $220,000; 
San Juan and vicinity, Puerto Rico: House Document Numbered 
575, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $65,400; 
Lake Erie shoreline from the Michigan-Ohio State line to Marble-
head, Ohio: House Document Numbered 63, Eighty-seventh Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $658,500; 
Sheffield Lake community park, Sheffield Lake Village, Ohio: 
House Document Numbered 414, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $100,300; 
Ventura-Pierpont area, California: House Document Numbered 
458, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $515,000. 
Orange County, California, House Document Numbered 602, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,845,000. 
SEC. 102. That the Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to 
reiniburse local interests for such work done by them on the beach 
erosion projects authorized in section 101, and in other sections of this 
Act, subsequent to the initiation of the cooperative studies which form 
Massachusetts. 
Virginia. 
North Carolina. 
Puerto Rico. 
Michigan-Ohio. 
California. 
Reimbursement 
of local interests. 
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Protection of 
shores. 
70 Stat. 702. 
Reimbvirsement. 
Small construc-
tion projects, au-
thorization. 
the basis for the projects: Provided^ That the work which may have 
been done on these projects is approved by the Chief of Engineers as 
being in accordance with the projects herein adopted: 
Provided 
further^ That such reimbursement shall be subject to appropriations 
applicable thereto or funds available therefor and shall not take 
precedence over other pending projects of higher priority for improve-
ments. 
SEC. 103. (a) The Act approved August 13,1946, as amended by the 
Act approved July 28, 1956 (33 U.S.C. 426e-h), pertaining to shore 
protection, is hereby further amended as follows: 
(1) the word "one-third" in section 1(b) is deleted and the 
word "one-half" is substituted therefor; 
(2) the following is added after the word "located" in section 
1(b) : ", except that the costs allocated to the restoration and pro-
tection of Federal property shall be borne fully by the Federal 
Government, and, further, that Federal participation in the cost 
of a project for restoration and protection of State, county, and 
other publicly owned shore parks and conservation areas may be, 
in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers, not more than 70 per 
centum of the total cost exclusive of land costs, when such areas: 
Include a zone which excludes permanent human habitation; 
include but are not limited to recreational beaches; satisfy ade-
quate criteria for conservation and development of the natural 
resources of the environment; extend landward a sufficient dis-
tance to include, where appropriate, protective dunes, bluffs, or 
other natural features which serve to protect the uplands from 
damage; and provide essentially full park facilities for appropria-
ate public use, all of which shall meet with the approval of the 
Chief of Engineers"; 
(3) the following is added after the word "supplemented" in 
section 1(e) : ", or, in the case of a small project under section 3 
of this Act, unless the plan therefor has been approved by the 
Chief of Engineers"; and 
(4) sections 2 and 3 are amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to reim-
burse local interests for work done by them, after initiation of the 
survey studies which form the basis for the project, on authorized proj-
ects which individually do not exceed $1,000,000 in total cost: Pro-
vided^ That the work which may have been done on the projects is 
approved by the Chief of Engineers as being in accordance with the 
authorized projects: Provided further^ That such reimbursement shall 
be subject to appropriations applicable thereto or funds available 
therefor and shall not take precedence over other pending projects of 
higher priority for improvements. 
"SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to under-
take construction of small shore and beach restoration and protection 
projects not specifically authorized by Congress, which otherwise 
comply with section 1 of this Act, when he finds that such work is 
advisable, and he is further authorized to allot from any appropria-
tions hereafter made for civil works, not to exceed $3,000,000 for any 
one fiscal year for the Federal share of the costs of construction of 
such projects: Provided^ That not more than $400,000 shall be allotted 
for this purpose for any single project and the total amount allotted 
shall be sufficient to complete the Federal participation in the project 
under this section including periodic nourishment as provided for 
under section 1(c) of this Act: Provided further, Thsit the provisions 
of local cooperation specified in section 1 of this Act shall apply: 
And provided further^ That the work shall be complete in itself and 
shall not commit the United States to any additional iniprovement to 
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insure its successful operation, except for participation in periodic 
beach nourishment in accordance with section 1(c) of this Act, and 
as may result from the normal procedure applying to projects author-
ized after submission of survey reports." 
(b) All provisions of existing law relating to surveys of rivers and 
harbors shall apply to surveys relating to shore protection and section 
2 of the River and Harbor Act approved July 3, 1930, as amended (33 
U.S.C. 426), is modified to the extent inconsistent herewith. 
(c) The cost-sharing provisions of this Act shall apply in deter-
mining the amounts of Federal participation in or payments toward 
the costs of authorized projects which have not been substantially 
completed prior to the date of approval of this Act, and the Chief of 
Engmeers, through the Beach Erosion Board, is authorized and 
directed to recompute the amounts of Federal contribution toward the 
costs of such projects accordingly. 
SEC. 104. The project for aquatic plant control authorized by the 
River and Harbor Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 297, 300) is hereby modified 
to provide that research costs and planning costs prior to construction 
shall be borne fully by the United States and shall not be included in 
the cost to be shared by local interests. 
SEC. 105. The Secretary of the Army is authorized to convey 17.94 
acres of land located at old lock and dam numbered 7, Ohio River, to 
the city of Midland, Pennsylvania, after November 1, 1962, for public 
park and recreation purposes, without monetary consideration but 
subject to reversion to the United States if not utilized for public 
park and recreation purposes and further subject to such flowage 
rights as may be necessary in the operation of the New Cumberland 
lock and dam, Ohio River. 
SEC. 106. Section 110(f) of the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (72 
Stat. 297) is amended by changing the period to a comma and adding 
the following: "and upon completion of transfer to the said State of 
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the canal 
in accordance with the agreement executed December 14,1960, between 
the Chief of Engineers and the representatives of said State, the addi-
tional sum of $800,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated to be 
expended by the Corps of Engmeers, or by said State, for the repair 
and modification of any canal properties and appurtenances, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 110(b) hereof." 
SEC. 107. The Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to 
prepare and transmit to Congress, at the earliest practicable date, a 
compilation of survey and review reports on river and harbor and 
flood control improvements, similar to that prepared in accordance 
with the Act of March 4, 1913, revised in accordance with the Acts of 
July 3,1930, August 30,1935j and May 17,1950, and printed in House 
Document Numbered 214, Eighty-second Congress, first session. 
SEC. 108. The Chief of Engineers is authorized to perform such 
work as may be necessary to provide for the repair and restoration of 
lock and dam numbered 3 on the Big Sandy River: Provided^ That the 
work authorized herein shall have no effect on the condition that 
local interests shall operate and maintain the structure and related 
properties as required by the Act of Congress approved August 6, 
1956 (70 Stat. 1062) : And provided further, 
That there is hereby 
authorized to be expended from appropriations hereafter made for 
civil functions administered by the Department of the Army, such 
funds as may be necessary for the repair and restoration of lock and 
dam numbered 3 on the Big Sandy River, not to exceed $200,000. 
SEC. 109. The body of water designated as the Redondo Beach Har-
bor, California, shall be known and designated hereafter as the 
Redondo Beach King Harbor, California. 
Any law, regulation, map. 
46 Stat. 945. 
Project costs. 
Aquatic plant 
control project, 
modification. 
Midland, Pa. 
Land convey-
ance. 
Illinois and 
Mississippi Ca-
nal. 
Additional 
funds. 
River and harbor 
survey reports. 
37 Stat. 827; 
46 Stat. 949; 
49 Stat. 1049; 
64 Stat. 168. 
Big Sandy River, 
Ky. 
Redondo Beach 
King Harbor, 
Calif. 
Designation. 
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Surveys. 
64 Stat. 168. 
Coastal areas. 
Citation of title. 
Flood Control 
Act of 1962. 
49 Stat. 1571. 
33 use 70lc. 
52 Stat. 1215. 
33 u s e 701C-1. 
58 Stat. 887. 
33 u s e 701-1. 
Navigation im-
provement proj-
ects. 
Authorization. 
document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such 
body of water is referred to shall be held to refer to it as the Redondo 
Beach King Harbor, California. 
SEC. 110. 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: 
Falmouth Harbor, Maine. 
Channel between Point Shirley and Deer Island, Massachusetts. 
Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey. 
Brigantine Inlet, New Jersey. 
Corsons Inlet, New Jersey. 
Kings Bay Deep 
water Channel, Georgia. 
Auglaize River at Wapakoneta, Ohio. 
Surveys of the coastal areas of the United States and its possessions, 
including the shores of the Great Lakes, in the interest of beach ero-
sion control, hurricane protection and related purposes: Provided^ 
That surveys of particular areas shall be authorized by appropriate 
resolutions of either the Committee on Public Works of the IJnited 
States Senate or the Committee on Public Works of the House of 
Representati ves. 
SEC. 111. Title I of this Act may be cited as the "River and Harbor 
Act of 1962". 
TITLE II—FLOOD CONTROL 
SEC. 201. Section 3 of the Act approved June 22,1936 (Public Law 
Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended by section 2 
of the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public Law Numbered 761, 
Seventy-fifth Congress), shall apply to all works authorized in this 
title except that for any channel improvement or channel rectification 
project, provisions (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of said Act of 
June 22, 1936, shall apply thereto, and except as otherwise provided 
by law: Provided^ That the authorization for any flood control project 
herein adopted requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from 
the date on which local interests are notified in writing by the Depart-
ment 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 i-equired 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 
session), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this Act, 
and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, 
or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control 
and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto shall apply as if 
herein set forth in full. 
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 hereafter made for flood control 
so as to be ready for rapid inauguration of a construction program: 
Provided further^ That the projects authorized herein shall be ini-
tiated as expeditiously and prosecuted as vigorously as may be con-
sistent with budgetary requirements: And provided 
further^ That 
penstocks and other similar facilities adapted to possible future use 
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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. 
N E W 
ENGLAND-ATLANTIC 
COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Wareham-Marion, 
Massachusetts, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 548, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,811,500. 
The project for navigation and hurricane-flood protection at Point 
Judith, Rhode Island, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 521, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,414,000. 
The project for navigation and hurricane-flood control protection at 
Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 195, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,152,000. 
LONG ISLAND 
SOUND AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood control protection at New London, 
Connecticut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 478, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,401,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Westport, Connecticut, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 412, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $217,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection a'; Mystic, Connecticut, is 
liereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 411, 
ICighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,490,000. 
HOUSATONIC RIVER 
BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Naugatuck River at Ansonia-
Derby, Connecticut, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
Avith the recommendations oi the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 437, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $5,620,000. 
HUDSON RIVER 
BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Rondout Creek and Wallkill 
River and their tributaries. New York and New Jersey, is hereby au-
thorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 113, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $5,111,000. 
N E W JERSEY-ATLANTIC 
COASTAL AREA 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion control 
on Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 464, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,097,000. 
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SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN 
The project for construction of the Fall Brook and Ayleworth 
Creek Reservoirs, and local flood protection works on the Lackawanna 
River at Scranton, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized substantially 
as recommended by the Chief of Engineers, in Senate Document Num-
bered 141, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,596,000. 
The project for the Juniata River and tributaries, Pennsylvania, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 565, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $32,150,000: Pro-
vided^ That installation of the power generating facilities shall not be 
made until the Chief of Engineers shall submit a reexamination report 
to the Congress for authorization. 
DELAWARE RIVER BASIN 
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> 
The project for the comprehensive development of the Delaware 
River Basin, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers, in House Document Numbered 522, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $192,400,000. 
POTOMAC RIVER BASIN 
The project for the North Branch of the Potomac River, Maryland 
and West Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers, in House Docu-
ment Numbered 469, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $50,965,000. 
MIDDLE ATLANTIC COASTAL AREA 
, ' 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Norfolk, Virginia, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 354, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,537,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion control 
at Wrightsville Beachj North Carolina, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engi-
neers in House Document Numbered 511, Eighty-seventh Congress, 
at an estimated cost of $345,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection and beach erosion con-
trol at Carolina Beach and vicinity. North Carolina, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 418, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $739,000. 
APALACHICOLA RIVER BASIN, GEORGIA 
The project for the West Point Reservoir, Chattahoochee River, 
Georgia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 570, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$52,900,000. 
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA 
The comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in 
62 Stat. 1176. 
Central and southern Florida approved in the Act of June 30, 1948, 
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1183 
and subsequent Acts of Congress, is hereby modified to include the 
following items: 
The project for flood protection of West Palm Beach Canal is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Secretary 
of the Army and the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Num-
bered 146, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,220,000. 
The project for flood protection on Boggy Creek, Florida, is hereby 
authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers 
in Senate Document Numbered 125, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $1,176,000. 
The project for South Dade County, Florida, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Secre-
tary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document 
Numbered 138, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$13,388,000. 
The project for Shingle Creek, Florida, between Clear Lake and 
Lake Tohopekaliga, for flood control and major drainage is hereby 
authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in 
Senate Document Numbered 139, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $3,250,000: Provided^ That no obligation shall be 
incurred for development of the Reedy Creek Swamp as a wildlife 
management area unless the State or one or more other non-Federal 
entities shall have entered into an agreement in advance to assume at 
least 50 per centum of the cost associated with that feature of the 
project. 
The project for flood protection in the Cutler drain area, Florida, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 123, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,063,000: Provided., 
That local interests shall receive credit in the Contributed Fund 
Account of the project for moneys shown to have been spent after 
March 1,1960, for construction of units of the authorized plan for Cut-
ler Drain: Provided 
further.^ That such completed work must be 
inspected and accepted by the Chief of Engineers as constituting use-
ful parts of the authorized plan: And provided further. That the 
credit established shall be in accordance with cost sharing arrange-
ments for the central and southern Florida flood control project in an 
amount not to exceed $124,000. 
GREEN SWAMP REGION, FLORIDA 
The project for the Four River Basins, Florida, namely the Hills-
borough, Oklawaha, Withlacoochee, and Peace Rivers, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 585, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $57,760,000: Provided., That 
the cost sharing shall be as recommended by the Secretary of the Army 
in House Document Numbered 585, Eighty-seventh Congress: And 
provided further., That planning and construction on the Lowery-
Mattie Conservation Area and its appurtenant works is deferred until 
additional studies are made thereon, and a further report submitted 
to the Congress. 
PASCAGOULA RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Chunky Creek, Chickasa-
whay and Pascagoula Rivers, Mississippi, is hereby authorized sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 549, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $6,740,000. 
Lowery-Mattie 
Conservation 
Area. 
Additional stud-
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45 Stat. 534. 
33 u s e 702a-
702m, 704. 
Will M. Whitting-
ton Auxiliary 
Channel. 
Designation. 
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Missis-
sippi Eiver adopted by the Act approved May 16, 1928, as amended by 
subsequent Acts, is hereby modified and expanded to include the 
following item: 
(a) Monetary authorizations heretofore and hereafter made avail-
able to the project or any portion thereof shall be combined into a 
single sum and be available for application to any portion of the 
project. 
The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Missis-
sippi River, adopted by the Act of May 15,1928, as amended, is hereby 
modified and expanded to include construction of certain improve-
ments in Gin and Muddy Bayous, Yazoo River Basin, Missis-
sippi, substantially in accordance with plans on file in the Office, Chief 
of Engineers, subject to the approval of such plans by the Secretary 
of the Army and the President, at an estimated cost of $150,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection on the Mississippi River 
Delta at and below New Orleans, Louisiana, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 550, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $7,502,000. 
The project for flood protection on Red River in Natchitoches and 
Red River Parishes, Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 476, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $1,293,000. 
The loAver auxiliary channel, Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, a unit 
in the Mississippi River and tributaries project, shall hereafter be 
known and designated as the Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Channel 
in honor of the late Member of the House of Representatives from the 
Third District of Mississippi, and former chairman of the House 
Public Works Committee. The Secretary of the Army, acting through 
the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is hereby authorized and 
directed to erect appropriate markers along the auxiliary channel 
designating the project "The Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Chan-
nel". Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States 
in which such project is designated or referred to under the name of 
lower auxiliary channel, Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, shall be held 
and considered to refer to such project by the name of "Will M. 
Whittington Auxiliary Channel". 
BUFFALO BAYOU 
The project for flood protection on Vince and Little Vince Bayous, 
Texas, is hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 441, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $2,224,000. 
GULF OF MEXICO 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Port Arthur and 
vicinity, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 505, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$23,380,000. 
The project for hurricane-flood protection at Freeport and vicinity, 
Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the rec-
ommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 495, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,780,000. 
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1185 
TRINITY RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the East Fork of the Trinity 
River, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 554, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$23,760,000. 
The project for extension of the Fort Worth Floodway, Texas, is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 454, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $5,148,000. 
BRAZOS RIVER BASIN 
The project for the San Gabriel River, Texas, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 591, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $20,250,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Clear Fork of the Brazos 
River at and in the vicinity of Abilene, Texas, is hereby authorized 
substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 506, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $31,200,000. 
TULAROSA BASIN 
The project for flood protection at Alamogordo, New Mexico, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 473, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,040,000. 
RIO GRANDE BASIN 
The project for flood protection at Las Cruces, New Mexico, is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of 
Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 117, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $3,350,000. 
ARKANSAS RIVER BASIN 
The Dardanelle lock and dam, Arkansas River, Arkansas, is hereby 
modified to provide for construction of a sewage outfall system for 
the city of Russellville, Arkansas, substantially in accordance with 
plans of said city, approved by the Chief of Engineers, at an estimated 
cost of $1,400,000. 
The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to 
cause an immediate study to be made under the direction of the Chief 
of Engineers of bank erosion on the Arkansas River between about 
river mile 455, near Muskogee, Oklahoma, and about river mile 495, 
near Coweta, Oklahoma. 
Such project or projects, because of its or 
their emergency nature, are hereby authorized as determined to be 
feasible and justified by the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of the 
Army with the approval of the President unless within the first period 
of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after 
the date on which the report is submitted to it such report is dis-
approved by the Congress: Provided^ That the requirements for 
cooperation shall include provisions that local interests shall furnish 
all lands, easements, and rights-of-way; hold and save the United 
States free from damages; maintain and operate after completion; 
and make a cash contribution in recognition of any special benefits: 
And provided further^ That with respect to any work found justified 
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[76 STAT. 
in the vicinity of Wybark, Oklahoma, local interests shall meet the 
requirements as stated and shall make a cash contribution of not less 
than $150,000 which shall include the value of all lands, easements, 
and rights-of-way required to be furnished, and the value of goods 
and services provided for purposes of project installation on a basis 
acceptable to the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That the cost to the 
Federal Government shall not exceed $2,000,000. 
The project for improvement of the Verdigris River and tribu-
taries, Oklahoma and Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 563, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $62,400,000. 
The project for flood protection on Big Hill Creek, Kansas, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 577, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,785,000. 
The project for the Kaw Reservoir, Arkansas River, Oklahoma, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 143, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $83,230,000: Pro-
vided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the 
acquisition of additional lands for establishment of a national wildlife 
refuge at the reservoir. 
The project for flood protection on Cow Creek, Kansas, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 531, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,560,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Arkansas River at Dodge 
City, Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 498, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,133,000. 
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WHITE RIVER BASIN 
The flood protection project for Village Creek, Jackson and Law-
rence Counties, Arkansas, is hereby authorized substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 352, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,968,000. 
The project for flood protection on Village Creek, White River, 
and Mayberry Levee Districts, Arkansas, is hereby modified to pro-
vide for construction of a pumping plant, substantially as recom-
mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
577, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated additional cost of 
$1,018,000. 
RED RIVER BASIN 
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That the general plan for flood control and other purposes on Red 
River below Denison Dam is hereby modified to authorize the Chief 
of Engineers to adjust the local cooperation requirements of the 
McKinney Bayou, Arkansas and Texas, Maniece Bayou, Arkansas, 
and East Point, Louisiana, projects so as to bring such requirements 
in accord with the recommendations of the Secretary of the Army and 
approval of the President, such adjustment to be made at the earliest 
practicable date. 
The project for Sanders, Big Pine, and Collier Creeks, Texas, is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engi-
neers, at an estimated cost of $16,100,000, subject to the recommenda-
tions of the Secretary of the Army and approval of the President. 
The project for Lake Kemp, Wichita River, Texas, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
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1187 
Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 144, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,410,000. 
The modification of the Broken Bow Keservoir, Mountain Fork 
River, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 137, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$23,800,000. 
The project for the Clayton and Tuskahoma Reservoirs, Kiamichi 
River, Oklahoma, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
Avith the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Docu-
ment Numbered 145, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $29,748,000. 
The project providing for the construction of two experimental 
water quality study projects in the Arkansas-Red River Basins, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 105, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $300,000. 
MISSOURI RIVER BASIX 
(a) The Kaysinger Bluff Reservoir, Osage River, Missouri, is 
hereby modified substantially in accordance with the recommendations 
of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 578, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated additional cost of $43,245,000: Pro-
vided^ That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the 
acquisition of additional lands for the establishment of a national wild-
life refuge at the reservoir. 
(b) The project for the Kansas River, Kansas, Nebraska, and 
Colorado, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of 
Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 122, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $88,070,000: Provided^ That the author- 
woodbine Reser-
ization for the Woodbine Reservoir on Lyons Creek is deferred at this ''^Authorization 
time, subject to submission of a new feasibility report to the Eighty- deferred, 
eighth Congress, which shall take into account the water and related „^l\°^^ *° ^°"" 
land resource development plans of the Soil Conservation Service, the 
Kansas Water Resources Board, and Lyons Creek Watershed Joint 
District Numbered 41, and preparation of said report is hereby 
authorized. 
The project for flood protection on White Clay Creek at Atchison, 
Kansas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document 
Numbered 151, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$3,495,000.^ 
The project for flood protection on Papillion Creek and tributaries, 
Nebraska, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 475, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,122,000. _ 
The project for flood protection on Indian Creek, Iowa, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 438, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,270,000. 
The project for Grand River and tributaries. North and South 
Dakota, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 574, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,670,000: 
Provided^ That the project shall be constructed, operated, and main-
tained by the Chief of Engineers under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Army. 
gress. 
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[76 STAT. 
Floyd River, 
The requirements of local cooperation on the project for flood control 
^"Modification of 
^^ ^^® Flojd River, Iowa, authorized by Public Law 85-500, as recom-
project. 
mended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 417, 
72 Stat.312. 
Eighty-fourth Congress, is hereby modified to read as follows: ^^Pro-
vided, That responsible local interests give assurances satisfactory to 
the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) furnish without cost to 
the United States all lands, easements, and rights-of-way necessary 
for construction of the project; (b) hold and save the United States 
free from damages due to the construction works; (c) make without 
cost to the United States all necessary road, highway, highway bridges 
otlier than those required to carry Interstate Highway 29 over the 
relocated Floyd River, and utility alterations and additions; (d) 
contribute in cash 0.84 per centum of the estimated first cost of the 
work for which the United States would be responsible, a contribution 
presently estimated at $65,000; (e) upon authorization of the project, 
to take all possible action under Iowa law, short of actual purchase, to 
prevent additional developments within the right-of-way that might 
increase the overall cost of the project; and (f) maintain and operate 
all the works after completion in accordance with regulations pre-
scribsd by the Secretary of the Army." 
OHIO RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Kokosing River, Ohio, is 
hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engi-
neers in House Document Numbered 220, Eighty-seventh Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $2,438,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Wabash River at and in the 
vicinity of Mount Carmel, Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers 
in House Document Numbered 573, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $1,417,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Mad River above Huffman 
Daiii, Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 439, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,930,000. 
The project for the Kentucky River, Kentucky, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 423, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $26,020,000. 
The project for Twelvepole Creek, West Virginia, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the 
Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 520, Eighty-seventh 
Congress, at an estimated cost of $11,000,000. 
The project for the Guyandot River and tributaries. West Virginia, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 569, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, second session, at an estimated cost of 
$60,477,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Buckhannon River, West 
Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Num-
bered 43, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,206,000. 
The project for flood protection on Crab Creek at Youngstown, 
Ohio, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 
440, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,268,000. 
The project for the Scioto River, Ohio, is hereby authorized sub-
stantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of 
Engineers in House Document Numbered 587, Eighty-seventh Con-
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1189 
gress, at an estimated cost of $55,307,000: Provided^ That nothing in 
this Act shall be construed as authorizing the acquisition of additional 
lands for the establishment of a wildlife refuge in this project. 
The project for flood protection on the Allegheny River at Sala-
manca, Nev/ York, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 166, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $1,390,000. 
The project for French Creek, Pennsylvania, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 95, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $23,102,000. 
The project for the Saline River and tributaries, Illinois, author-
ized by the Flood Control Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-500) is hereby 
72 stat. 312. 
modified to authorize the Chief of Engineers to adjust the cash con-
tribution required of local interests to such amount as is recom-
mended by the Secretary of the Army and approved by the President, 
such adjustment to be made at the earliest practicable date. 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Illinois River and tributaries, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, and Indiana, is hereby authorized substantially as recommended 
by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 472, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $71,465,000. 
The project for Rend Lake, Illinois, is hereby authorized substan-
tially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engi-
neers in House Document Numbered 541, Eighty-seventh Congress, at 
an estimated cost of $35,500,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River at and in 
the vicinity of Guttenberg, Iowa, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers 
in House Document Numbered 286, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $729,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Mississippi River between 
Sainte Genevieve and Saint Marys, Missouri, is hereby authorized 
substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 519, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. 
The project for the Harrisonville and Ivy Landing Drainage and 
Levee District Numbered 2, Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially 
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers 
in House Document Numbered 542, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $1,112,000. 
The project for the Columbia Drainage and Levee District Num-
bered 3, Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 543, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$986,000. 
The project for the Prairie DuPont Levee and Sanitary District, 
Illinois, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 540, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $921,000. 
The project for flood protection on Richland Creek, Illinois, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 571, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,995,CO0. 
The project for the Joanna Reservoir, Salt River, Missouri, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance w^ith the recommenda-
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tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 507, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $63,300,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Pecatonica River, Illinois 
and Wisconsin, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with 
the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document 
Numbered 539, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$850,000. 
The project for flood protection on Rock River at Rockford, Illi-
nois, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recom-
mendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 
142, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,228,000. 
The project for the Mississippi River urban areas from Hampton, 
Illinois, to mile 300, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 564, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $9,289,000. 
The project for the Mississippi River urban areas from Hampton, 
Illinois, to Cassville, Wisconsin, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 450, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an 
estimated cost of $5,350,000. 
The project for the Kickapoo River, Wisconsin, is hereby authorized 
substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 557, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $15,570,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Warroad River and Bull 
Dog Creek, Minnesota, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House 
Document Numbered 449, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $972,000. 
GREAT LAKES BASIN 
' 
The project for flood protection on the River Rouge, Michigan, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 14S, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,659,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Sandusky River, Ohio, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 136, 
Eighty-seventh C^ongress, at an estimated cost of $4,300,000. 
GILA RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Camelsback Reservoir, Gila River, Arizona, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 127, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,770,000. 
The project for flood protection on the Gila River below Painted 
Rock Reservoir, Arizona, is hereby authorized substantially in accord-
ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate 
Document Numbered 116, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated 
cost of $18,255,000. 
The project for flood protection on Pinal Creek, Arizona, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 512, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,300,000. 
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1191 
TRUCKEE RIVER BASIN 
The project for flood protection on the Truckee River and tribu-
taries, California and Nevada, is hereby authorized substantially in 
accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 435, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $2,385,000. 
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 
The project for flood protection on Alameda Creek, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 128, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $14,680,000. 
The project for Corte Madera Creek, Marin County, California, is 
hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers in 
House Document Numbered 545, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an esti-
mated cost of $5,534,000: Provided^ That local interests shall contrib-
ute in cash 3 per centum of the Federal construction of the Rose Valley 
unit with a contribution presently estimated at $158,000. 
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER BASIN 
The New Melones project, Stanislaus River, California, authorized 
by the Flood Control Act approved December 22,1944 (58 Stat. 887), 
ss stat. 901. 
is hereby modified substantially in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 453, 
Eighty-seventh (^ongress, at an estimated cost of $113,717,000: Pro-
dded^ That upon completion of construction of the dam and power-
plant by the Corps of Engineers, the project shall become an integral 
part of the Central Valley project and be operated and maintained 
by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Federal reclamation 
laws, except that the flood control operation of the project shall be 
in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Sec-
retary of the Army: Provided further^ That the Stanislaus River 
Channel, from Goodwin Dam to the San Joaquin River, shall be 
maintained by the Secretary of the Army to a capacity of at least 
eight thousand cubic feet per second subject to the condition that 
responsible local interests agree to maintain private levees and to 
prevent encroachment on the existing channel and floodway between 
the levees: Provided further^ That before initiating any diversions 
of water from the Stanislaus River Basin in connection with the 
operation of the (^entral Valley project, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall determine the quantity of water required to satisfy all existing 
and anticipated future needs within that basin and the diversions 
shall at all times be subordinate to the quantities so determined: Pro-
vided further^ That the Secretary of the Army adopt appropriate 
Fish and wiia-
measures to insure the preservation and propagation of fish and wild- "
^
® preservation. 
life in the New Melones project and shall allocate to the preservation 
and propagation of fish and wildlife, as provided in the Act of August 
14,1946 (60 Stat. 1080), an appropriate share of the cost of construct- 
le use 66I-
ing the Stanislaus River diversion and of operating and maintaining ^^^'=-
the same: Provided 
fv/rther^ That the Secretary of the Army, in 
connection with the New Melones project, construct basic public 
recreation facilities, acquire land necessary for that purpose, the cost 
of constructing such facilities and acquiring such lands to be non-
reimbursable and nonreturnable: Provided 
further, 
That contracts 
for the sale and delivery of the additional electric energy available 
from the Central Valley project power system as a result of the con-
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[76 STAT. 
struction of the plants herein authorized and their integration with 
that system shall be made in accordance with preferences expressed in 
the Federal reclamation laws except that a first preference, to the 
extent as needed and as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, but not to 
exceed 25 per centum of such additional energy, shall be given, under 
reclamation law, to preference customers in Tuolumne and Calaveras 
Counties, California, for use in that county, who are ready, able, and 
willing, within twelve months after notice of availability by the Secre-
tary of the Interior, to enter into contracts for the energy and that 
Tuolumne and Calaveras County preference customers may exercise 
their option in the same date in each successive fifth year providing 
written notice of their intention to use the energy is given to the Sec-
i-etary not less than eighteen months prior to said dates: And pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of the Army give consideration 
during the preconstruction planning for the New Melones project to 
the advisability of including storage for the regulation of stream-
flow for the purpose of downstream water quality control. 
The Hidden Reservoir, Fresno River, California, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 37, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $14,338,000. 
The Buchanan Reservoir, Chowchilla River, California, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 98, Eighty-
seventh (yongress, at an estimated cost of $13,585,000. 
The project for flood protection on Mormon Slough, Calaveras 
River, California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 576, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost 
of $1,960,000. 
RUSSIAN RIVER BASIN 
The project for.Russian River, Dry Creek, California, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 547, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $42,400,000. 
REDWOOD CREEK BASIN 
The project for flood protection on Redwood Creek, Humboldt 
County, California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers m House Docu-
ment Numbered 497, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of 
$2,580,000. 
LOS ANGEI.E8 RIVER BASIN 
In addition to previous authorizations, there is hereby authorized to 
be appropriated the sum of $3,700,000 for the prosecution of the 
comprehensive plan for the Los Angeles River Basin approved in the 
55 Stat. 647. 
Act of August 18, 1941, as amended and supplemented by subsequent 
Acts of Congress, 
ROGUE RIVER BASIN 
The project for the Rogue River, Oregon and California, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of 
the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 566, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $106,700,000, subject to the 
conditions of local cooperation specified in said report: Provided, That 
the project is to be located, constructed, and operated to accomplish 
the benefits as set forth and described in the report and appendixes: 
And provided further, That in the years of short water supply all 
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1193 
water users will share the available water in the same proportions that 
they would share the total full supply when it is available, and that no 
further water-use allocations will be made from the authorized storage 
so as to retain the maximum possible benefits to authorized uses during 
the periods of adversity when storage shortages occur. 
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN 
The projects and plans for the Columbia River Basin, including the 
Willamette River Basin, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 
June 28, 1938, and subsequent Acts of Congress, including the Flood 
52 stat. 1222; 
Control Acts of May 17, 1950, September 3, 1954, July 3j 1958, and ^ f^^^' IZ'A"'"'' 
July 14, 1960, are hereby modified to include the projects listed below 72 stat! sis;' 
for flood control and other purposes in the Columbia River Basin 74 stat. 499. 
(including the Willamette River Basin) substantially in accordance 
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Docu-
ment Numbered 403, Eighty-seventh Congress: Provided, That the 
depth and width of the authorized channel in the Columbia-Snake 
River barge navigation project shall be established as fourteen feet 
and two hundred and fifty feet, respectively, at minimum regulated 
flow. 
Asotin Dam, Snake River, Idaho and Washington; 
Bruces Eddy Dam and Reservoir, North Fork, Clearwater 
River, Idaho; 
Strube 
Reregulating Dam and Reservoir, 
South 
Fork, 
McKenzie River, Oregon; 
Gate Creek Dam and Reservoir, Gate Creek, Oregon; 
Fern Ridge Dam and Reservoir modification. Long Tom River, 
Oregon; 
Cascadia Dam and Reservoir, Soutli Santiam River, Oregon. 
The project for the Ririe Dam and Reservoir, Willow Creek, Idaho, 
is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommen-
dations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 562, 
Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,027,000. 
The project for the Blackfoot Dam and Reservoir, Blackfoot River, 
Idaho, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the 
recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Num-
bered 568, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $829,000. 
WYNOOCHEE RIVER 
The project for the Wynoochee River, Washington, is hereby 
authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations 
of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 601, Eighty-
seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $40,211,000: Provided, That 
Reexamination 
the installation of the power-generating facilities shall not be made •"^P"'"* t° congress, 
until the Chief of Engmeers shall submit a reexamination report to 
the Congress for authorization. 
COOK INLET, 
ALASKA 
The project for Bradley Lake, (^ook Inlet, Alaska, is hereby author-
ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief 
of Engineers in House Document Numbered 455, Eighty-seventh Con-
gress, at an estimated cost of $45,750,000. 
SEC. 204. (a) For the purpose of developing hydroelectric power and 
Alaska. 
to encourage and promote the economic development of and to foster owet'^d^t^'io"-
the establishment of essential industries in the State of Alaska, and for ment. 
other purposes, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief 
of Engineers, is authorized to construct and the Secretary of the 
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[76 STAT. 
Sale of power 
and energy. 
Contract author-
ity. 
Small projects. 
64 Stat. 183; 
70 Stat. 522. 
Flood emergency 
preparation. 
69 Stat. 186. 
Interior is authorized to operate and maintain the Crater-Long Lakes 
division of the Snettisham project near Juneau, Alaska. 
The works 
of the division shall consist of pressure tunnels, surge tanks, penstocks, 
a powerplant, transmission facilities, and related facilities, all at an 
estimated cost of $41,634,000. 
(b) Electric power and energy generated at the division except that 
portion required in the operation of the division, shall be disposed of 
by the Secretary of the Interior in such a manner as to encourage the 
most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers 
consistent with sound business principles. 
Rate schedules shall be 
drawn having regard to the recovery of the costs of producing and 
transmitting the power and energy, including the amortization of the 
capital investment over a reasonable period of years, with interest 
at the average rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of 
the Treasury) paid by the United States on its marketable long-term 
securities outstanding on the date of this Act and adjusted to the 
nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum. 
In the sale of such power and 
energy, preference shall be given to Federal agencies, public bodies, and 
cooperatives. 
It shall be a condition of every contract made under this 
Act for the sale of power and energy that the purchaser, if it be a 
purchaser for resale, will deliver power and energy to Federal agencies 
or facilities thereof within its transmission area at a reasonable charge 
for the use of its transmission facilities. 
All receipts from the trans-
mission and sale of electric power and energy generated at said 
division shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of miscellaneous receipts. 
(c) The appropriate Secretary is authorized to perform any and 
all acts and enter into such agreements as may be appropriate for the 
purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and 
effect, including the acquisition of rights and property, and the Secre-
tary of the Army, when an appropriation shall have been made for the 
commencement of construction or the Secretary of the Interior in the 
case of operation and maintenance of said division, may, in connection 
with the construction or operation and maintenance of such division, 
enter into contracts for miscellaneous services for materials and sup-
plies, as well as for construction, which may cover such periods of time 
as the appropriate Secretary may consider necessary but in which the 
liability of the United States shall be contingent upon appropriations 
being made therefor. 
SEC. 205. Section 205 of the Flood Control Act of 1948, as amended 
(33 U.S.C. 701s), is amended (a) by striking out "$10,000,000" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "$25,000,000", (b) by striking out the term 
"small flood control projects" and inserting in lieu thereof the term 
"small projects for flood control and related purposes", and (c) by 
striking out ''''Provided^ That not more than $400,000 shall be allotted 
for this purpose at any single locality from the appropriations for any 
one fiscal year" and inserting in lieu thereof ''''Provided^ That not more 
than $1,000,000 shall be allotted under this section for a project at any 
single locality and the amount allotted shall be sufficient to complete 
Federal participation in the project". 
SEC. 206. The first sentence of section 5 of the Flood Control Act 
approved August 18, 1941, as amended (33 U.S.C. 701n), is hereby 
further amended to read as follows: "That there is hereby authorized 
an emergency fund in the amount of $15,000,000 to be expended in 
flood emergency preparation, in flood fighting and rescue operations, or 
in the repair or restoration of any flood control work threatened or 
destroyed by flood, including the strengthening, raising, extending, or 
other modification thereof as may be necessary in the discretion of the 
Chief of Engineers for the adequate functioning of the work for flood 
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1195 
control; in the emergency protection of federally authorized hurri-
cane or shore protection being threatened when in the discretion of the 
Chief of Engineers such protection is warranted to protect against 
imminent and substantial loss to life and property; in the repair and 
restoration of any federally authorized hurricane or shore protective 
structure damaged or destroyed by wind, wave, or water action of other 
than an ordinary nature when in the discretion of the Chief of Engi-
neers such repair and restoration is warranted for the adequate func-
tioning of the structure for hurricane or shore protection." 
SEC. 207. Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the 
construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood 
control, and for other purposes", approved December 22, 1944, as 
amended by section 4 of the Flood Control Act of July 24, 1946, 
and by section 209 of the Flood Control Act of 1954, is hereby further 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 4. The Chief of Engineers, under the supervision of the Sec-
retary of the Army, is authorized to construct, maintain, and operate 
public park and recreational facilities at water resource development 
projects under the control of the Department of the Army, to permit 
the construction of such facilities by local interests (particularly those 
to be operated and maintained by such interests), and to permit the 
maintenance and operation of such facilities by local interests. 
The 
Secretary of the Army is also authorized to grant leases of lands, 
including structures or facilities thereon, at water resource develop-
ment projects for such periods, and upon such terms and for such pur-
poses as he may deem reasonable in the public interest: Provided^ That 
leases to nonprofit organizations for park or recreational purposes may 
be granted at reduced or nominal considerations in recognition of the 
public service to be rendered in utilizing the leased premises: Pro-
vided further^ That preference shall be given to Federal, State, or 
local governmental agencies, and licenses or leases where appropriate, 
may be granted without monetary considerations, to such agencies for 
the use of all or any portion of a project 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 provided further^ 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, and other natural resources, the licensee or 
lessee may be authorized to cut timber 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, con-
servation, 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 projects shall be open to public use gen-
erally, without charge, for boating, swimming, bathing, fishing, and 
other recreational purposes, and ready access to and exit from such 
areas along the shores of such projects shall be maintained for gen-
eral 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 Secretary 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 Treas-
ury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts." 
Public park and 
recreational facil-
ities. 
68 Stat. 1266. 
16 use 46Od. 
Public use of 
water areas. 
Protection of 
fish and game. 
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[76 STAT. 
utilization of 
public roads. 
33 u s e 701r-l. 
Substitute 
roads. 
Flood control 
surveys. 
Authorization. 
SEC. 208. Section 207 of the Flood Control Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 
501) is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 207. (a) When used in this section— 
"(1) The term 'Agency' means the Corps of Engineers, United 
States Army or the Bureau of Reclamation, United States 
Department of the Interior, whichever has jurisdiction over the 
project concerned. 
" (2) The term 'head of the Agency concerned' means the Chief 
of Engineers or the Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, or 
their respective designees. 
" (3) The term 'water resources projects to be constructed in the 
future' includes all projects not yet actually under construction, 
and, to the extent of work remaining to be completed, includes 
projects presently under construction where road relocations or 
identifiable components thereof are not complete as of the date of 
this section. 
"(4) The term 'time of the taking' is the date of the relocation 
agreement, the date of the filing of a condemnation proceeding, 
or a date agreed upon between the parties as the date of taking. 
"(b) Whenever, in connection with the construction of any author-
ized flood control, navigation, irrigation, or multiple-purpose project 
for the development of water resources, the head of the Agency con-
cerned determines it to be in the public interest to utilize existing public 
roads as a means of providing access to such projects during construc-
tion, such Agency may improve, reconstruct, and maintain such roads 
and may contract with the local authority having jurisdiction over the 
roads to accomplish the necessary work. 
The accomplishment of such 
work of improvement may be carried out with or without obtaining 
any interest in the land on which the road is located in accordance with 
mutual agreement between the parties: Provided^ (1) That the head of 
the Agency concerned determines that such work would result in a 
saving in Federal cost as opposed to the cost of providing a new access 
road at Federal expense, (2) that, at the completion of construction, 
the head of the Agency concerned will, if necessary, restore the road 
to at least as good condition as prior to the beginning of utilization for 
access during construction, and (3) that, at the completion of con-
struction, the responsibility of the Agency for improvement, recon-
struction, and maintenance shall cease. 
"(c) For water resources projects to be constructed in the future, 
when the taking by the Federal Government of an existing public road 
necessitates replacement, the substitute provided will, as nearly as 
practicable, serve in the same manner and reasonably as well as the 
existing road. The head of the Agency concerned is authorized to 
construct such substitute roads to design standards comparable to 
those of the State, or, where applicable State standards do not exist, 
those of the owning political division in which the road is located, for 
roads of the same classification as the road being replaced. 
The traffic 
existing at the time of the taking shall be used in the determination of 
the classification. In any case where a State or political subdivision 
thereof requests that such a substitute road be constructed to a higher 
standard than that provided in the preceding provisions of this sub-
section, and pays, prior to commencement of such construction, the 
additional costs involved due to such higher standard, such Agency 
head is authorized to construct such road to such higher standard. 
Federal costs under the provisions of this subsection shall be part of 
the nonreimbursable project costs." 
SEC. 209. The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and 
directed to cause surveys for flood control and allied purposes, includ-
ing channel and major drainage improvements, and floods aggravated 
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1197 
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 
survey 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 harbor mentioned in this title until the project 
for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: 
Valenciana River, Puerto Rico. 
Waccasassa River (Levy County and Gilchrist County), Florida. 
Lake Pontchartrain, North Shore, Louisiana. 
Peytons Creek and tributaries, Texas. 
Clear Creek, Texas. 
San Bernard River, Texas. 
Arkansas River Basin, with reference to the effect of the Eufaula 
and Iteystone Reservoirs, Oklahoma, on the water supply facilities of 
the cities of McAlester and Yale, respectively, with a view to deter-
mining the extent, if any, of Federal participation in the replacement 
of the cities' water supply facilities in equity without regard to limita-
tion contained in existing Corps of Engineers protective and relocation 
plans. 
Cumberland River, Kentucky and Tennessee, with reference to the 
effect of the Barkley Dam project, on the water supply and sewage 
treatment facilities of the cities of Cadiz, Kuttawa, and Eddyville, 
Kentucky, and the State penitentiary at Eddyville, Kentucky, respec-
tively, with a view to determining the extent, if any, of Federal 
participation in the replacement of their water supply and sewage 
treatment facilities in equity without regard to limitation contained 
in existing Corps of Engineers protective and relocation plans. 
Missouri River Basin, with reference to the effect of Oahe and 
Garrison Reservoirs, North Dakota and South Dakota, on the sewage 
treatment facilities of the cities of Bismarck and Mandan, North 
Dakota, respectively, with a view to determining the extent, if any, 
of Federal participation in the sewage treatment facilities in equity 
without regard to limitation contained in existing Corps of Engineers 
protective and relocation plans. 
All streams in Santa Barbara County, California, draining the 
Santa Ynez Mountains, except Santa Ynez River and tributaries. 
Sacramento River Basin and streams in northern California drain-
ing into the Pacific Ocean for the purposes of developing, where 
feasible, multiple-purpose water resource projects, particularly those 
which would be eligible under the provisions of title I I I of Public 
Law 85-500. 
72 stat. 319. 
Battle Creek, Sacramento River, California. 
Kaskaskia River levees, Illinois; review of requirements of local 
cooperation. 
Puget Sound, Washington, and adjacent waters, including tribu-
taries, in the interest of flood control, navigation, and other water uses 
and related land resources. 
Harbors and rivers in Hawaii, with a view to determining the advis-
ability of improvements in the interest of navigation, flood control, 
hydroelectric power development, water supply, and other beneficial 
water uses, and related land resources. 
43 u s e 390b. 
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[76 STAT. 
Chicot County, 
Ark. 
Bridge replace-
ment authorized. 
58 Stat. 894i 
W. Kerr Scott 
Dam and Reser-
Designation. 
60 Stat. 645. 
Short title. 
Waimea River, Kokee Area, Kauai, Hawaii, for multiple purposes. 
Waipio River, Kohala-Hamakua coast, Island of Hawaii, for mul-
tiple purpose development. 
lao River, Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii. 
SEC. 210. The Secretary of the Army acting through the Corps of 
Engineers is hereby authorized to replace with adequate floodway 
capacity the bridge over Boeuf River, Chicot County, Arkansas, 
approximately three miles north of the county line, and the bridge over 
Big Bayou, Chicot County, Arkansas, approximately two miles 
upstream from its confluence with the Boeuf River which were altered 
as part of the project for Boeuf and Tensas Rivers and Bayou Macon, 
authorized by the Flood Control Act of December 22,1944, and which 
were recently destroyed by floods, at an estimated cost of $115,000. 
SEC. 211. The Wilkesboro Reservoir flood control project, Yadkin 
River, North Carolina, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1946, 
shall hereafter be known and designated as the W. Kerr Scott Dam 
and Reservoir, in honor of the late Senator W. Kerr Scott of North 
Carolina. 
Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United 
States in which such project is designated or referred to shall be held 
and considered to refer to such project by the name of the W. Kerr 
Scott Dam and Reservoir. 
SEC. 212. Title I I of this Act may be cited as the "Flood Control Act 
of 1962". 
Approved October 23, 1962. 
October 24, 1962 
[H. R. 8517] 
Public Law 87-875 
AN ACT 
To grant emergency officer s retirement benefits to certain persons who 
did not qualify therefor because their applications were not submitted before 
May 25,1929. 
Veterans. 
Officer's re-
tirement benefits. 
72 Stat. 1263. 
38 u s e prec. 
pt. 1 notes. 
48 Stat. 10. 
54 Stat. 760. 
72 Stat. 1216. 
38 u s e 1901-
1905. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 11 of 
Public Law 85-857 is amended (1) by inserting " ( a ) " immediately 
after "SEC. 11,"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 
"(b) Any individual who, upon application therefor before May 25, 
1929, would have been granted emergency officer's retirement pay 
based upon 30 per centum or more disability under the Act of May 24, 
1928 (45 Stat. 735), and who would have been entitled to continue to 
receive such pay under section 10 of Public Numbered 2, Seventy-third 
Congress, or under section 1 of Public Numbered 743, Seventy-sixth 
Congress, and who upon being placed on the emergency officer's 
retired list would have been paid retired pay at a monthly rate lower 
than the monthly rate of disability compensation then payable, shall, 
upon application made therefor after the date of enactment of this 
subparagraph to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, be placed 
upon the appropriate emergency officer's retired list, and thereafter 
shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, and benefits of retired emer-
gency officers of World War I." 
The limitations of time contained in section 1905 of title 38, United 
States Code, are hereby waived in favor of Walter J. Johnson (Veter-
ans' Administration claim numbered C-6048500), and his application 
for benefits under chapter 39 of title 38, United States Code, shall be 
acted upon under the remaining provisions of such chapter if he 
applies for such benefits within the six-montli period which begins on 
the date of enactment of this Act. 
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Approved October 24, 1962.