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PUBLIC LAW 87-874-OCT. 23, 1%2

[76 STAT.

LOWER M I S S I S S I P P I RIVER B A S I N

45 Stat. 534. 33 USC 702a702m, 704.

Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Channel. Designation.

The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Mississippi Eiver adopted by the Act approved May 16, 1928, as amended by subsequent Acts, is hereby modified and expanded to include the following item: (a) Monetary authorizations heretofore and hereafter made available to the project or any portion thereof shall be combined into a single sum and be available for application to any portion of the project. The project for flood control and improvement of the lower Mississippi River, adopted by the Act of May 15, 1928, as amended, is hereby modified and expanded to include construction of certain improvements in Gin and Muddy Bayous, Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, substantially in accordance with plans on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of such plans by the Secretary of the Army and the President, at an estimated cost of $150,000. The project for hurricane-flood protection on the Mississippi River Delta at and below New Orleans, Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 550, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,502,000. The project for flood protection on Red River in Natchitoches and Red River Parishes, Louisiana, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 476, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,293,000. The lower auxiliary channel, Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, a unit in the Mississippi River and tributaries project, shall hereafter be known and designated as the Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Channel in honor of the late Member of the House of Representatives from the Third District of Mississippi, and former chairman of the House Public Works Committee. The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is hereby authorized and directed to erect appropriate markers along the auxiliary channel designating the project "The Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Channel". Any law, regulation, document, or record of the United States in which such project is designated or referred to under the name of lower auxiliary channel, Yazoo River Basin, Mississippi, shall be held and considered to refer to such project by the name of "Will M. Whittington Auxiliary Channel". B U F F A L O BAYOU

The project for flood protection on Vince and Little Vince Bayous, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 441, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,224,000. G U L F OF MEXICO

The project for hurricane-flood protection at Port Arthur and vicinity, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 505, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $23,380,000. The project for hurricane-flood protection at Freeport and vicinity, Texas, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 495, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,780,000.

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