WSP02550

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/2/1944
• Author: Secretary of War
• Title: A Report Together With Accompanying Papers and Illustrations on a Review of Reports on the Missouri River For Flood Control
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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LEITER OF TRANSMIITAL

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, February 28, 1944.
The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
DEAR MR, SPEAKER: I am t,ansmitting herewith a report dated
Decembcr 31, 1943, from tbe Chief of Engineers, United States Army,
together "lith accompanying papers and an illustration, on n .review
of reports on tbe Missomi River, with l\ view to flood control along the
main stem from Sionx City, Iowa, to its mouth, requested. by a resolu-
tion of the Committee on Flood Control, House of Represcntatives,
adopted on Mny 1:3, 1943.
In view, however, of the lllrge quulltit,ies of materials, equipment,
and manpower wbich would be required on the construction of the
projects proposed in the report, and since there is no presently indi-
cated necessity for them in the Wilr program, the Deptlrtment con-
siders that initiation of construction should he deferred until aHer
the war or until esscntiality in tho. war effort hns been established.
By lettcr of Febrnary 16, 1944, tbe Bureau of tho. Budget advises
that (,here would be no object.ion to the submission of t.hc report to
Congress for its informatiou, but that the aut.horization of the improve-
ments recommended by the Chief of Engineers would not be iu accord
with the progmm of the President, at least at the present. Further
advice as to the relationship to the program of the Presidcnt.. of the
improvements considered in the report, will be given by the Bnreau of
the Budgct after revicw nnd consideration by that Burean of reports
of other Federal agencies and additional mat.erial to be submitted by
tbe Cbief of Engineers. A copy of the letter of the Bureau of tbe
Budget containing its comments is enclosed.
Respectfully,

HENRY L. STIMSON,
Secretary oj War.

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