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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.--CH. 795-JUNE 28, 1938 YAKIMA RIVER, WASHIINGTON The plan for protection of the city of Yakima, Washington, on the Yakima River, by means of levees as set forth in House Document Numbered 579, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, is approved and for the execution of this plan there is hereby authorized $163,000. TANANA RIVER AND CHENA SLOUGH, ALASKA The plan for protection of the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, and vicinity by means of an earth and rock levee and for the relocation of a portion of the Richardson Highway as set forth in House Docu- ment Numbered 561, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, is approved and for the execution of this plan there is hereby authorized $565,000. SEC. 5. That, in carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Secre- tary of War and the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby authorized to cooperate with institutions, organizations, and individuals, and to utilize the services of Federal, State, and other public agencies, and to pay by check to the cooperating public agency, either in advance or upon the furnishing or performance of said services, all or part of the estimated or actual cost thereof; and to make expenditures for personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, for purchase of reference and law books and periodicals, for printing and binding, for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and motorboats for official use, and for other necessary expenses. SEC. 6. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control includ- ing floods aggravated by or due to tidal effect at the following-named localities, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and water- flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of such localities; the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations here- tofore or hereafter made for such purposes: Provided, That no pre- liminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint reso- lution shall be made: Provided further, That after the regular or formal reports made as hereby authorized on any examination, sur- vey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted to Con- gress, no supplemental or additional report or estimate shall he nmad(l unless authorized by law or by resolution of the Committee on Flood Control of the Iouse of Representatives or the Committee on Com- merce of the Senate: And provided further, That the (overnment shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the im)prove- ment of any waterway mentioned in this Act until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: Thames River and its tributaries, Connecticut. Chittenango Creek and its tributaries, New York. Ellicott Creek, New York. Smokes Creek at Lackawanna, New York. Bellows Pond and Canada Lake drainage area, Fulton County, New York. Kayaderosseras Creek, Fish Creek, and their tributaries, and Sara- toga Lake, New York. Frankford Creek, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Big Elk Creek and Elk River, Cecil County, Maryland. Smith River and its tributaries, Virginia and North Carolina. Tensas River, Franklin, Madison, Tensas, East Carroll, Concordia, and Catahoula Parishes, Louisiana. 1223 Yakima River. Protection of Yaki- ma, Wash. Tanana River and Chena Slough. Protection of Fair- banks, Alaska. Utilization of other public agencies, etc. Preliminary flood control examinations, etc., authorized. Provisos. Surveys, etc., for new works; restric- tion. Supplementary re- ports; specific aklthor- ity required. Adoption of projects by law. Connecticut. New York. Pennsylvania. Maryland. Virginia and North Carolina. Louisiana.

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