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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 569. 1928 . 535 to carry on this pr oject, is hereby created ; and such board is author- Differences betwe en ad opte d p rojec t and ized and directed to consider the engineering differences between the plans of Mississippi adopted project and the plans recommended by the Mississippi River R iver considered Commission to Commission in its special report dated November 28, 1927, and after such study and such further surveys as may be necessary, to recom- mend to the Presi dent s uch a ction as it may deem necess ary t o be Decision of the Presi- ta ken in r espect t o such e ngineeri ng diffe rences a nd the d ecision of dent on recommenda- tion of Board to be fol- the President upon all recom menda tions or qu estio ns sub mitte d to lowed s' him by such board shall be followed in carrying out the project herein Li mit on powe r of adopted. The board shall not have any power or authority in respect b oard . utExecution of project to such project except as hereinbefore provided. Suc h project and by Mis sis sip pi Ri ver the changes therein, if any, shall be executed in accordance with the CoP m ost 1537 provisions of section 8 of this Act. Such sur ve ys shall be made Surveys between Baton Rouge, La ., and b etween Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as Cape Girardeau before th e board may deem necessa ry to en able it to ascer tain and determi ne undertaking flood con- the best method of securing flood relief in addition to levees, before trol other than levees . any flood-control works other than levees and revetments are under- Protection of adja- taken on th at po rtion of the river : Prov ided, That all diversion cent lands by diversion works and outlets constructed under the provisions of this Act shall works, etc . be built in a manner and of a character which will fully and amply Areas within flood- protect the adjacent lands : Provided further, That pending comnle- wa y s etc. to be pro- tion of any floodway, spillway, or diversion channel, the areas within toned pending °omple the same shall be given the same degree of protection as is afforded by levees on the west side of the river contiguous to the levee at the No interference with head of said floodway, but nothing herein shall prevent, postpone, project on east side of delay, or in anywise interfere with the execution of that part of the pro ject on the east side of the riv er, including ra ising, strengthe ning, be um a thori ed to and enlarging the levees on the east side of the river. The sum of Post.p. 030 . $325,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for this purpose. Unexpended be]- All unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore ma de for ances for Miss issi ppi River flo od control prosecuting work of flood control on the Mississippi River in accord- available. ance with the provisions of the Flood Control Acts approved March 42,p .1 50 .p . 948; Vol. 1, 1917, and March 4, 1923, are hereby made available for expendi- E0c epion. ture under the provisions of this Act, except section 13. Local con trib ution SEC. 2 . That it is hereby declared to be the sense of Congress that toward cost of flood the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood-control control declared a work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legisla- sound principle . tion on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of pre- venting inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no Consi dera tion s for material national interest. As a full compliance with this principle not requirin g it for in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately $292,- ao tedproject . d itnexp enditu res 000,000, heretofore made by the local interests in the alluvial valley heretofore ma de by l ocal inter ests, nat ional of the Mississippi River for protection against the floods of that concern in control of river ; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of the f lood, giga ntic scal e of the project, e tc. these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of inter- state commerce, and the movement of the United States mails ; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United States, no local contribution to the project herein adopted is required. SEC. 3. Except when authorized by the Secretary of War upon the Assurances required of States, etc ., before recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, no money appropriated it em dtheproje ct any under authority of this Act shall be expended on the construction of any item of the project until the States or levee districts have given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will (a) tro hliaiarorks ork s flood con- assuranc es com- maintain all flood-control works after their completion, except con- pletion. trolling and regulating spillway structures, including special relief

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