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 69 S T A T. 1

PUBLIC LAW 163-JULY 15, 1955

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RIVERS AND HARBORS AND FLOOD CONTROL

The following appropriations of the Secretary of the Army Engineers for authorized civil Army pertaining to rivers and and related purposes:

shall be expended nnder the direction and the supervision of the Chief of functions of the Department of the harbors, flood control, beach erosion,

GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS

For expenses necessary for the collection and study of basic information pertaining to river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects, and when authorized by law, preliminary examinations, surveys and studies (including cooperative beach erosion studies as authorized in Public Law Numbered 520, Seventy-first Congress, approved July 3, 1930, as amended and supplemented), of projects prior to authorization for construction, to remain available until expended, $5,940,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the study authorized by P. L. 71, Eighty-fourth Congress: Provided, That of said total sum $180,000 shall be used for a comprehensive investigation of the entire ALabama-Coosa River and a report of said survey.

46 Stat. 918. 33 U S C 4 2 6, 4 6 5, 569a, 607a; 48 u s e 1399. Hurricane s u r vey. Ante, p. 132.

CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL

For the prosecution of river and harbor, flood control, shore protection, and related projects authorized by law; detailed studies, and plans and specifications, of projects (including those for development with participation or under consideration for participation by States, local governments, or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection by law (but such studies shall not constitute a commitment of the (rovernment to construction); and not to exceed $900,000 for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior for conservation of fish and wildlife as authorized by law; to remain available until expended, $401,173,000, of which $25,000 shall be available for the project at Playa del Rey Inlet and Harbor, Venice, California, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954, and $68,000 shall be available for The Upper Iowa River Project: Provided, That funds appropriated herein may at the discretion and under the direction of the Chief of Engineers be used in payment to the accounts of the Confederated Tribes of the Yakima Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation; or other recognized Indian tribes, and those individual Indians not enrolled in any recognized tribe, but who through domicile at or in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir and through custom and usage are found to have an equitable interest in the fishery, all of whose fishing rights and interests will be impaired by the Government incident to the construction, operation, or maintenance of The Dalles Dam, Columbia River, Washington and Oregon, and must be subordinated thereto by agreement or litigation: Provided furthers That not to exceed $210,000 of funds appropriated herein may be transferred to the Secretary of the Interior for relocation of those permanent resident Indian families in The Dalles project who were domiciled within the project area on May 17, 1950, and to acquire such lands as may be necessary therefor on the condition that the Secretary of the Interior transfer to the control of the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with The Dalles Dam project, Oregon, an irregular shaped parcel of land containing in the aggregate approximately five and five-tenths acres located in lot 1 of section 17 and in lots 1 and 2 of section 20, township 2 north, range 15 east, Willamette meridian, Oregon, being a portion of the land previously transferred to the

68 Stat. 1242. The D a l l e s Dani, Colutrdbia River. Payment to I n dians.

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