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PUBLIC LAW 85-843-AUG. 28, 1958

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Public Law 85-843 August 28, 1958 AN ACT [H.R. 12216] To designate the dam and reservoir to be constructed on the Cumberland River near Carthage, Tennessee, as the "Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir" and to establish the United States Study Commission on the Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe-San Antonio, Nueces, and San Jacinto River Basins, and intervening areas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled,

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TITLE I and°Res"rvo".°^™ SECTION 101. That the dam and reservoir to be constructed on the Designation. Cumberland River near Carthage, Tennessee, authorized by the first section of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes", approved July 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 634; Public Law 525, Seventy-ninth Congress), shall be known and designated hereafter as the "Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir". Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such dam and reservoir are referred to shall be held to refer to such dam and reservoir as the "Cordell Hull Dam and Reservoir". TITLE II

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SEC. 201. That the purpose of this title is— (a) to provide for an integrated and cooperative investigation, study, and survey by a commission created pursuant to this title and composed of representatives of certain departments and agencies of the United States, and of the State of Texas, in connection with, and in promotion of, the conservation, utilization, and development of the land and water resources of the Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe-San Antonio, Nueces and San Jacinto River Basins (and intervening areas) in the State of Texas in order to formulate a comprehensive and coordinated plan for— (1) flood control and prevention; (2) domestic and municipal water supplies; (3) the improvement and safeguarding of navigation; (4) the reclamation and irrigation of land, including drainage; (5) possibilities of hydroelectric power and industrial development and utilization; (6) soil conservation and utilization; (7) forest conservation and utilization; (8) preservation, protection, and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources; (9) the development of recreation; (10) salinity and sediment control; (11) pollution abatement and the protection of public health; and (12) such other beneficial and useful purposes not herein enumerated; and (b) to formulate, within the time provided for in section 209 of this title, a basic, comprehensive and integrated plan of development of the land water resources within the area described in this section for submission to, and consideration by, the President and the Congress, and to make recommendations, after adequate

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