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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2n SESS.-CH. 771-JUNE 30, 1948 Holdens Creek, Virginia; Hacks Creek, Northumberland County, Virginia; Back River, York County, Virginia, and channel connecting Back River with Front Cove; Bennetts Creek, York County, Virginia; Powells Bay, Accomac County, Virginia, at Wisharts Point, and channel connecting said bay with the "Ballast" ; Fishermans Bay, Lopez Island, Washington; Quilcene Bay Harbor, Washington. SEC. 110. Title I may be cited as the "River and Harbor Act of 1948". 1175 Virginia. Washington. Short title. TITLE II-FLOOD CONTROL Flood Control Act of 1948. SEC. 201. That section 3 of the Act approved June 22, 1936 (Public, state, etc. coopera Numbered 738, Seventy-fourth Congress), as amended by section 2 of the Act approved June 28, 1938 (Public, Numbered 761, Seventy- 1215 .tat5 fifth Congress), shall apply to all works authorized in this title except 33 U. c. ij 701c, that for any channel improvement or channel rectification project, 701- provisions (a), (b), and (c) of section 3 of said Act of June 22, 1936, shall apply thereto, and except as otherwise provided by law: Pro- vided, That the authorization for any flood-control project herein Timelimitation. adopted requiring local cooperation shall expire five years from the date on which local interests are notified in writing by the Department of the Army of the requirements of local cooperation, unless said inter- ests shall within said time furnish assurances satisfactory to the Sec- retary of the Army that the required cooperation will be furnished. SEC. 202. The provisions of section 1 of the Act of December 22, 1944 (Public, Numbered 534, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session), 58 stat. 887 . shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this title; and the Procedures. procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto shall apply as if herein set forth in full. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that the follow- ing provisions shall be observed: No project or any modification not authorized, of a project for flood teitrt reqlure. control or rivers and harbors, shall be authorized by the Congress unless a report for such project or modification has been previously submitted by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, in con- formity with existing law. SEC. 203. That the following works of improvement for the benefit Proects authorized. of navigation and the control of destructive floodwaters and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers in accordance with the plans in the respective reports hereinafter designated and subject to the conditions set forth therein: Provided, That the necessary plans, specifications, and pre- initiation of roject liminary work may be prosecuted on any project authorized in this title with funds from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for flood control so as to be ready for rapid inauguration of a construction program: Providedfurther, That the projects authorized herein shall be initiated as expeditiously and prosecuted as vigorously as may be consistent with budgetary requirements: And provided further, That stockseti of P n pen stocks and other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam authorized in this title for construction by the Department of the Army when approved by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and the Federal Power Commission:

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