Pub. L. 87-874, tit. I, sec. 101

Sec. 101. That the following works of improvement of rivers and harbors and other waterways for navigation, Hood control, and other purposes are hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports hereinafter designated: Provided, That the provisions of section 1 of the River and Harbor Act approved March 2, 1945 (Public Law Numbered 14, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session), shall govern with respect to projects authorized in this title; and the procedures therein set forth with respect to plans, proposals, or reports for works of improvement for navigation or flood control and for irrigation and purposes incidental thereto, shall apply as if herein set forth in full: navigation Narraguagus River, Maine: House Document Numbered 530, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $500,000; Carvers Harbor, Vinalhaven, Maine: Senate Document Numbered 118, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $205,000; Searsport Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 500, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $700,000; Portland Harbor, Maine: House Document Numbered 216, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,340,000; Kennebunk River, Maine: House Document Numbered 459, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $270,000; Portsmouth Harbor and Piscataqua River, Maine and New Hampshire: House Document Numbered 482, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,500,000; Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 341, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,100,000; Marblehead Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 516, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,752,000; Chelsea Harbor, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 350, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,843,000; Dorchester Bay and Neponset River. Massachusetts: Senate Document Numbered 126, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,050,000; Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts: Senate Document Numbered 124, Èightyseventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,200,000; Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island: House Document Numbered 236, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $210,000; Great Lakes to Hudson River Waterway, New York: River and Harbor Committee Document Numbered 20, Seventy-third Congress, for the further partial accomplishment of the approved plan there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, in addition to sums previously authorized, $1,000,000; Little Neck Bay, New York: House Document Numbered 510, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,185,000; 76 Stat. 1174 Flushing Bay and Creek, New York: House Document Numbered 551, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,695,000; Buttermilk Channel, New York: House Document Numbered 483, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,226,000; Newark Bay, Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, New Jersey (channels to Port Elizabeth): Modification of the existing navigation project authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1954 (Public Law 780, Eighty-third Congress), House Document Numbered 252, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans being prepared by the Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of such plans by the Secretary of the Army and the President; Raritan River, New Jersey: House Document Numbered 455, Eighty-sixth Congress, maintenance; Lynnhaven Inlet, Bay, and connecting waters, Virginia: House Document Numbered 580, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,068,000: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing reimbursement to local interests for the Long Creek-Broad Bay Canal Bridge; James River, Virginia: House Document Numbered 586, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $39,000,000: Provided, That this authorization shall expire after a period of five years from the date of approval of this Act unless the Governor of Virginia has endorsed the project within that time: And provided further, That prior to construction, there will be submitted to the Congress a feasibility report which takes account of possible adverse effects of the project on seed oyster production; Rollinson Channel and channel from Hatteras Inlet to Hatteras, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 457, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $652,000; Wilmington Harbor, North Carolina: Senate Document Numbered 114, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,370,000; Savannah Harbor, Georgia: Senate Document Numbered 115, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $605,000; Canaveral Harbor, Florida: Senate Document Numbered 140, Eighty-seventh Congress, at the estimated cost of $5,076.000; Key West Harbor, Florida: Senate Document Numbered 106, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $820,000; Tampa Harbor, Port Sutton and Ybor Channels, Florida: House Document Numbered 529, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $997,000; Pensacola Harbor, Florida: House Document Numbered 528, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $424,000; Walter F. George lock and dam, Alabama: Senate Document Numbered 109, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $500,000; Holt lock and dam, Alabama: The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized and directed to cause an immediate study to be made under the direction of the Chief of Engineers with a view to providing hydroelectric power generating facilities in said dam, and his report on such study shall be submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of the Army within the first period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Eighty-eighth Congress; Pascagoula Harbor, Mississippi: House Document Numbered 560, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,870,000; Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana: Senate Document. Numbered 36, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $357,000; The project, Mississippi River, Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico, barge channel through Devils Swamp, Louisiana (Baton Rouge Harbor), authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1946, in accord-76 Stat. 1175ance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 321, Eightieth Congress, as amended by the Flood Control Act of 1948, is hereby further amended to provide for the provision as required, of suitable dikes and other retaining structures at a Federal cost of $299,500, for the construction and future maintenance of the project, in order to provide additional industrial sites with water frontage which are now needed to permit the normal development and expansion of the industrial and commercial activities of the locality: Provided, That local interests contribute the sum of $100,500 toward the cost of the work; Bayous Terrebonne, Petit Caillou, Grand Caillou, Du Large, and connecting channels, Louisiana, and Atchafalaya River, Morgan City to Gulf of Mexico: House Document Numbered 583, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $45,000; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Louisiana and Texas: House Document Numbered 556, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $25,540,000: Provided, That the authority to make such modifications as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable, as set forth in House Document Numbered 556, Eighty-seventh Congress, shall be interpreted to apply to, but not limited to, the improvement of the existing channels at proposed channel relocation sites in lieu of such relocations; Calcasieu River salt water barrier, Louisiana: House Document Numbered 582, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,310,000: Provided, That the Corps of Engineers is directed to study the question of cost sharing taking into account that measures for mitigation of damages from navigation improvements will be a Federal responsibility and enhancement effects will be shared on the basis of a 50 per centum Federal and 50 per centum non-Federal; such cost sharing is hereby authorized as determined to be feasible and justified by the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of the Army within the first period of sixty calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the report is submitted to it unless such report is disapproved by the Congress; Mississippi River at Clarksville, Missouri: House Document Numbered 552, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $103,300; Sandy Slough, Lincoln County, Missouri: House Document Numbered 419, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $195,000; Sabine-Necnes Waterway, Texas: House Document Numbered 553, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,830,000; Trinity River, Wallisville Reservoir, Texas: House Document Numbered 215, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $9,162,000: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the acquisition of additional lands for establishment of a national wildlife refuge at the reservoir; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, channel to Palacios, Texas: House Document Numbered 504, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $818,000; Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, channel to Victoria, Texas: House Document Numbered 288, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,590,000; Illinois Waterway, Illinois and Indiana: House Document Numbered 31, Eighty-sixth Congress, is approved and there is hereby authorized the sum of $40,000,000 for initiation and partial accomplishment of the project; Kaskaskia River, Illinois: Senate Document Numbered 44, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $58,200,000; Mississippi River between Missouri River and Minneapolis, Minnesota: House Document Numbered 513, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,205,000; 76 Stat. 1176 Ontonagon Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 287, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,741,000; Muskegon Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 474, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $609,000; Leland Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 413, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $485,000; Little Bay De Noc, Gladstone Harbor and Kipling, Michigan: House Document Numbered 480, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $350,000; Green Bay Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 470, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,270,000; Kenosha Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 496, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $673,000; Manitowoc Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 479, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $719,000; Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin: House Document Numbered 134, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,029,000; Chicago Harbor, Illinois: House Document Numbered 485, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,505,000; Calumet Harbor and River, Illinois and Indiana: House Document Numbered 581, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $11,464,000; New Buffalo Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 481, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $667,000; Caseville Harbor, Michigan: House Document Numbered 64, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $327,000; Saginaw River, Michigan: House Document Numbered 544, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $4,780,000; Rouge River, Michigan: House Document Numbered 509, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $257,000; Huron Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 165, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $8,557,000; Cleveland Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 527, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $888,000; Conneaut Harbor, Ohio: House Document Numbered 415, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,179,000; Erie Harbor, Pennsylvania: House Document Numbered 340, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $671,000; Buffalo Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 451, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,797,000; Great Sodus Bay Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 138, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $765,000; Oswego Harbor, New York: House Document Numbered 471, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,180,000; Dana Point Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 532, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,730,000; Santa Barbara Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 518, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $3,000,000: Oakland Harbor, California, Fruitvale Avenue Bridge: Senate Document Numbered 75, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $1,750,000; Oakland Harbor, California: House Document Numbered 353, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $6,775,000; Noyo River and Harbor, California: Senate Document Numbered 121, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $13,231,000; Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers, Oregon and Washington: House Document Numbered 203, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $493,000; 76 Stat. 1177 Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivera below Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon: House Document Numbered 452, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $20,100,000; Tacoma Harbor, Port Industrial and Hylebos Waterways, Washington: Senate Document Numbered 104, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,460,000; Kingston Harbor, Washington: House Document Numbered 417, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $428,000; Swinomish Channel, Washington: House Document Numbered 499, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $887,000; Kaunakakai Harbor, Molokai, Hawaii: House Document Numbered 484, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $7,919,000; The project for Hilo Harbor, Hawaii, authorized by Public Law 645, Eighty-sixth Congress, is hereby modified to provide for adjustment or the cash contribution required of local interest in accordance with recommendations by the Secretary of the Army and approved by the President, such adjustment to lie made at the earliest practicable date. beach erosion State of New’ Hampshire: House Document Numbered 416, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $88,000; Fire Island Inlet and shore westerly to Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York: Modification of the existing beach erosion control project authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1958 (Public Law 500, Eighty-fifth Congress), House Document Numbered 411, Eighty-fifth Congress, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans, which will include a sand bypassing system at Fire Island Inlet, being prepared by the Chief of Engineers, subject to the approval of such plans by the Secretary of the Army and the President; Clark Point, New’ Bedford, Massachusetts: House Document Numbered 584, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $60,000; Virginia Beach, Virginia: House Document Numbered 382, Eighty-seventh Congress, periodic nourishment; Fort Macon, Atlantic Beach and vicinity, North Carolina: House Document Numbered 555, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $194,000; Palm Beach County from Martin County line to take Worth Inlet and from South Lake Worth Inlet to Broward County line, Florida: House Document Numbered 164, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $128,800; Virginia Key and Key Biscayne, Florida: House Document Numbered 561, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $220,000; San Juan and vicinity, Puerto Rico: House Document Numbered 575, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $65,400; Lake Erie shoreline from the Michigan-Ohio State line to Marblehead, Ohio: House Document Numbered 63, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $658,500; Sheffield Lake community park, Sheffield Lake Village, Ohio: House Document Numbered 414, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $100,300; Ventura-Pierpont area, California: House Document Numbered 458, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $515,000. Orange County, California, House Document Numbered 602, Eighty-seventh Congress, at an estimated cost of $2,845,000.