Pub. L. 91-611, tit. II, sec. 224

Sec. 224. That the plan for flood protection in the Big Sandy River Basin, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia included in the comprehensive plan for flood control in the Ohio River Basin, authorized by the Flood Control Act, approved June 22, 1936 (49 Stat. 1570), as amended and modified is hereby further modified to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide the towns of Williamson and Matewan, West Virginia, with comprehensive flood protection by a combination of local flood protection works and residential flood proofing and to initiate advanced engineering design and construction thereof as described by the Chief of Engineers in Report on Tug Fork, July 1976, at a total cost, not to exceed $10,000,000, except that no funds shall be appropriated to carry out this section until such modification is approved by the Appalachian Regional Commission and the President.