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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 665-DEC. 22, 1944 CHEHALIS RIVER BASIN The project on Chehalis River for local flood protection at Hoquiam, Aberdeen, and Cosmopolis, Washington, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Nnmbered 494, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, at an estimated cost of $669,000. TERRITORY OF HAWAI The project on the Hanapepe River for local flood protection at Hanapepe, Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, is hereby author- ized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in the report submitted to Congress by the Secre- tary of War on March 15, 1944, at an estimated cost of $73,000. SEC. 11. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for flood control and allied purposes, including channel and major drainage improvements, to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, in drain- age areas of the United States and its Territorial possessions, which include the following named localities, and the Secretary of Agri- culture is authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and waterflow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on such drainage areas; the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for such purposes: Provided, That after the regular or formal reports made on any examination, survey, project, or work under way or proposed are submitted to Congress, no supplemental or additional report or esti- mate shall be made unless authorized by law except that the Secretary of War may cause a review of any examination or survey to be made and a report thereon submitted to the Congress if such review is required by the national defense or by changed physical or economic conditions: And 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 Act until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: Pasquotank River North Carolina. Chipola River, Aiabama and Florida. Wacasassa River and it tributaries, Florida, and of adjacent areas in Gilchrest and Levy Counties, Florida. Oklawaha River and its tributaries, Florida, and of adjacent areas in Alachua and Marion Counties, Florida. Clear Fork of the Mohican River, in Richland County, Ohio. Hocking River in Hocking County, Ohio. Leatherwood Creek, Ohio, with particular reference to flood con- trol and water supply for Cambridge, Ohio. For flood control, rice irrigation, navigation, pollution, salt-water intrusion, and drainage on all streams and bayous in southwest Louisiana, west of the West Atchafalaya Basin protection levee, and south of the latitude of Boyce; on all streams and bayous in Louisi- ana lying between the East Atchafalaya Basin protection levee and the Mississippi River; and on Amite River and tributaries, Louisiana. Choctawhatchee River, Florida. Scajaquada Creek and its tributaries, New York. Susquehanna River in the vicinity of Endicott, Johnson City, and Vestal, New York. Absecon Island, New Jersey, with a view to the protection of Atlantic City, Ventnor, Margate City, Longport, and other areas on the New Jersey coast, that have been affected from floods due to tide and wind. 903 Hoquiam, Aber- deen, and Cosmopo- lis, Wash. Hanapepe River. Preliminary flood control examinations, etc. Supplemental re- ports, restriction. Adoption of proj- ects by law. North Carolina. Alabama and Flor- ida. Ohio. Louisiana. Florida. New York. New Jersey.

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