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 642 Appropriations authorized. Brady, Ter. Whitney Reservoir, Tex. Appropriation authorized. Modifica 45 Stat. 5 1508; 50 St Stat. 1220. 33U.S. 702m. Levees Basin. Projects 45 Stat. 49 Stat. 33U. . to 702a-11 Yazoo I 49 Sta Stat. 1215 33 U.S. 701c-1. Substit Levee i Ad ju rdes levers. Orade PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 377-AUG. 18, 1941 the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 370, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, is approved and there is hereby authorized $1,400,000 for initiation and partial accom- plishment of the project, including $460,000 for the Hords Creek Reservoir. The project for local flood protection on Brady Creek at Brady, Texas, is hereby authorized to be constructed substantially in accord- ance with the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 441, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, at an estimated cost of $825,000. BRAZOS RIVER BASIN The plan for Whitney Reservoir on the Brazos River in Texas, for flood control and other purposes in accordance with the recommenda- tion of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 390, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, is approved and there is hereby authorized $5,000,000 for the initiation and partial accomplishment of the project. LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER ltion. St The project for flood control of the Lower Mississippi River 534; 49 Stat. tat. 876; 52 adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928, as amended by the Act of June c. 5} 702- 15, 1936, as amended by the Acts of August 28, 1937, and June 28, 1938, is hereby modified and, as modified, is hereby authorized and adopted, and the Flood Control Act of June 15, 1936, as amended, is amended as follows: (a) The existing engineering plan for flood control in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River is hereby modified so as to provide for the construction of plan 4 as set forth in the report of the Missis- sippi River Commission, dated March 7, 1941, to the Chief of Engi- in Yazoo neers, except that the levees in the Yazoo Basin on the east bank of the Mississippi River south of the Coahoma-Bolivar County line in said plan shall have a three-foot freeboard over the project flood, and all levees shall be constructed with adequate section and foundation abandoned. to conform to increased levee heights. The Boeuf Floodway in the M project adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928, and the Eudora Flood- way as well as the Northward Extension and the back protection levee extending from the head of the said Eudora Floodway north 1 CI70 1 to the Arkansas River in the project adopted by the Act of June 15, 1936, as amended, are hereby abandoned, and the provisions of said Acts relating to the prosecution of work on said floodways and extension are hereby repealed. t. I1M; 52 (b) The project for flood control of the Yazoo River shall be as - , authorized by the Flood Control Act approved June 15, 1936, as C. 70 2' amended by section 2 of the Act approved June 28, 1938, except that ntions. (the Chief of Engineers may, in his discretion, from time to time, substitute therefor combinations of reservoirs, levees, and channel improvements; and except that the extension of the authorized project and improvements contemplated in plan C of the report of March 7, xtension. 1941, of the Mississippi River Commission are authorized, including the extension of the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi River generally along the west bank of the Yazoo River to a connection in the vicinity of Yazoo City with the Yazoo River levee, authorized by the existing project for protection against headwater floods of the stment of Yazoo River system, and the adjustment in the discretion of the Chief sinof Engineers of the grades of the existing levees in the backwater area on the east bank of Yazoo River below razoo City, all at an estimated D s additional cost of $11,982,000: Provided,That the Chief of Engineers shall fix the grade of the extension levees along the Yazoo River, with [55 STAT.

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