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<br />project whichca~ be properly allocated for .thilt purpose. Irrigation
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<br />projects now under consideration in Kansas wollldbe handled in this .
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<br />Participation by the Federal Government in, the construction of
<br />projects for flood control aIidirrigationis not new. Well established
<br />policies in these matters have been evolved over a long period of
<br />years in which much oithe development oithe west has taken plMe.
<br />Problems of flood control ,were firSt given consideration by. the
<br />Federal Government nearly a century ago, when. in 1850 Congress.
<br />apprcipriatecl funds for a survey of the Mississippi River'Delta and
<br />the preparation. of plans for protecting it from inundation. Later
<br />the Mis'sissippi .RiverCommission was created and engaged. in the
<br />construction and maintenance of leveesslong the ,lower MississippI
<br />andimprovementiof the channel for navigation; . A study of Similar..
<br />. problems Oil tributaries of the Mississippi was authorized through
<br />the Congressional Act of May 15, 1928. Out of the experiences of tI;ui .
<br />ye!lrsduring which methods of procedure for dealing' with these
<br />problem,s were being develqped, there was formulated and. adopte9.
<br />byCongrElss in the Flood Control Act of June 22, 1936, the following
<br />declaration of policy: . ." .
<br />, "SOCl'ION L It is. hereby r~cogniied.that d~strUctiv~ floods !,ponthe .riVers .
<br />of the United States, upsetting. orderly proce;.,es an.d. ,causin.g J()SS .oUife' arid
<br />property, including. the ~rosion of lands, and, impairing and obstruoting .navi-
<br />gation, highways; railroadsi. and.other ch~els of.coIIUllercelietween the States,
<br />constitute a menace to national welfare;' that it is the 8~n~ ot Cong.:ess that
<br />flood control on navigable waters or theIr tributaries is a 'proper activity of the
<br />Federai" Gov~rnment incoiipcration ";ith States, theirpoliticai sub-div;,;io;'s,
<br />and localities thereOf;..that investigationS and improvements of rivers and..other
<br />.. water-ways, including watersheds thereof; for f1o?d;control. purposes .,are 'in .
<br />. the interest of the .general welfare; that the Federal GOVel'l1i:nent Should. im-
<br />. prove .or participate in the im'provement. of navigable waters or their.:tribu~
<br />. tarles, including watersheds ther.;of, for. flood-contro!.iJUfposes;ifthe .benefits,
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<br />to whomsoever. they may accrue are in excess of the. esbimated, costs, anil if
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<br />. which pla~sare being prepared for f1ocid~coritrol projects in which.
<br />. Feder!,l Government m'ay have. an interest and may to: that extent
<br />participate in'the cost of const.ructing s.uch improvements~j .
<br />. ... The .problem of developing \irater supplies oithe Westforuse was.
<br />. first recclgnizedby Congress in 1888 in Ii joint resolution which di~ '
<br />rected an investigation of the practicability of' con~tructingreiJerc
<br />voirs for the storage of water in the arid region oithe cimtral states:. .
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