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 60 STAT.] 79TH COONG. , 2 D SESS.-CH. 596-JULY 24, 1946 JAMES RIVER BASIN The project for the Gathright Reservoir and the Falling Spring reregulating dam on Jackson River, Virginia, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in his report dated April 18, 1946, at an estimated cost of $11,000,000. YADKIN-PEE DEE RIVER BASIN The project for the construction of four detention reservoirs at the Wilkesboro, Upper Wilkesboro, Reddies Numbered 1 and Reddies Numbered 3 sites is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with plans contained in the report of the Chief of Engineers dated June 19, 1946, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be ad- visable, at an estimated cost of $7,194,000. ALTAMAHA RIVER BASIN The project for flood protection at Macon, Georgia, on Ocmulgee River, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 560, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, at an esti- mated cost of $349,000. LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER The project for flood control and improvement of the Lower Missis- sippi River adopted by the Act approved May 15, 1928, as amended by subsequent Acts, is hereby modified and expanded to include the following items and the authorization for said project is increased accordingly: (a) Improvement of the Boeuf and Tensas Rivers and Bayou Macon at an estimated cost of $5,013,000 authorized in the Act approved December 22, 1944. (b) Extension of the authorized improvement under subparagraph (a) to include the improvement of Bayou LaFourche, Louisiana, including cut-offs, as may be found requisite to effectuate the purposes of the plan, at an estimated cost of $5,913,000 and substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in Senate Document Numbered 191, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session. (c) Extension of the authorized improvement under subparagraph (a) to include the improvement of the Boeuf and Tensas Rivers and Bayou Macon north of the Louisiana State line, including cut-offs, as may be found requisite to effectuate the purposes of the plan, at an estimated cost of $4,930,000 substantially in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers dated April 8, 1946. (d) Improvement of Big Sunflower, Little Sunflower, Hushpuck- ena, and Quiver Rivers and their tributaries, and on Hull Brake- Mill Creek Canal, Bogue Phalia, Ditchlow Bayou Deer Creek, and Steele Bayou, Mississippi, at an estimated cost of $3,752,000 authorized in the Act approved December 22, 1944. (e) Extension of the authorized improvement under subparagraph (d) upstream and downstream, including cut-offs, as may be found requisite to effectuate the purposes of the plan, at an estimated cost of $2,500,000 for modification of the authorized project. (f) Extension of the authorized headwater project for the Yazoo River and tributaries to include improvements in the area between the Yazoo-Tallahatchie-Coldwater River System and the hills to protect against overflows from the main stem and hill tributaries in 645 Gathright Reservoir and Falling Spring dam, Va. Macon, Ga. 45 Stat. 534. 33 U..S. C. 7026- 702m, 704; Supp. V, § 702a-l etuq. Arkansas and Loui- siana. 58 Stat. 894. 33 U. . a., Supp. V, § 701a-1 etd. 16U.S.C., Supp.V § 460d, 82&s; 43 U. 8. P., SupP. V, 1 390. Ante,p. 642. Mississippi. Improvements 58 Stat. 887 . 33 U. S. C., Supp. V, § 701a-1 etd ,. 16U. .C., Spp.V, §460d, 82s; 43 U. 8. C., Supp. V, § 380. Ante, p. 42. Yasoo River.

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