(b) That local interests shall hold and save the United States free from damages due to the construction works. (c) That local interests shall maintain and operate all the works after completion, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of War. (d) That local interests shall bear the cost of alterations and relocations of all existing improvements, as well as utility and communication facilities, and transportation lines, other than railroads. (e) That local interests shall be required to furnish assurances acceptable to the Secretary of War that the flood-carrying capacities of the existing stream channels and of the proposed improvements at the said localities will not be decreased or encroached upon. (f) That, further, in the event of the authorization by Congress of the improvements recommended, no construction be started until qualified local interests have given satisfactory assurances to the Secretary of War that they will meet the prescribed requirements of local cooperation. With regard to meeting the above-prescribed requirements of cooperation by local interests it is estimated that the total cost of the construction of each project and the annual cost of operation and maintenance of same will be as follows: Carthage: Construction costs... Annual operation and maintenance. Monett: Construction costs__ Annual operation and maintenance $19,000 550 207, 000 780 You are further notified that all interested parties have the privilege of presenting their views on the subject matter covered in the report to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, a permanent body sitting at Washington, D. C., to which all examination and survey reports of this character are referred. Parties desiring to present any statements or facts concerning the proposed improvements may be heard by the Board either orally or in writing. Written communications should be addressed to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, 2 New York Avenue NW., Washington, D. C., and should be mailed in time to be in the possession of the said Board within 4 weeks from the date of this communication. If, however, you have important data to communicate to the Board which cannot be collected and put in shape for proper presentation within 4 weeks, the Board should be informed of this fact without delay and request made for an extension of the limiting date for submitting information. If oral hearings are desired, dates for the same may be arranged for by correspondence with the Board. Any further information needed may be obtained by application to this office, or to the District Engineer, United States Engineer Office, Tulsa, Okla. Copies of the reports will not be furnished or loaned for use outside of the office, but interested parties, including the press, will be permitted to make such notes of the contents as they desire. You are requested to communicate the foregoing to any persons known by you to be interested in the improvement and who, not being known to this office, do not receive a copy of this communication. Very truly yours, E. H. MARKS, Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Division Engineer. NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC Mr. CASE. I have a letter from the Delegate from Hawaii, Mr. Farrington, regarding the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, which I would like to insert in the record at this point. (The letter is as follows:) Hon. FRANCIS CASE, M. C., HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C., February 12, 1948. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR COLLEAGUE: This letter is to answer some of the questions raised in the consideration of the proposal to utilize Punchbowl Crater, Honolulu, as the site for a national cemetery in the Territory of Hawaii. The site is exceptionally accessible. It may be reached from any of the principal hotels in Honolulu by a drive of not more than 15 minutes. The hotel facilities of the city are of course of the best and constantly improving. The advantages of this site, therefore, are unusual from the standpoint of parents and relatives in the States who may want to visit the final resting place of the men who lost their lives in the Pacific. This view from the rim on the south side of the crater is extraordinary. It includes the best part of the south side of the island of Oahu, Diamond Head, the city of Honolulu, Honolulu Harbor, and last, but by no means least, Pearl Harbor. Thus the scene of the beginning of the war may be readily envisioned from this point. Punchbowl Crater is known to the Hawaiians as the "Hill of Sacrifice." It was for this purpose that this site was used by the native people in ancient days. In recent years this hill has been the scene of annual Easter Sunday sunrise exercises. The custom of the people of the city has been to erect a large white cross on the southern rim of the crater, where it may be seen from all parts of the city. This site, therefore, has the unusual advantage of being readily accessible, being at the scene of the beginning of the war and having a tradition that is particularly appropriate to its utilization as a cemetery. I believe that for the foregoing reasons that it can be very appropriately developed as the site of the principal national cemetery for the war dead of the Pacific, a site whose natural grandeur gives it all of the character of a great memorial, a particularly appropriate place to enshrine the last remains of those who gave their lives in the successful prosecution of the Pacific war. The site has the approval of the City Planning Commission of Honolulu and all of the veterans' organizations of the Territory. The latter have for many years.envisioned this as the appropriate place for just such a cemetery. Although the initial cost of the development of this site for this purpose may prove to involve a greater cost than other sites, its other advantages, including its ready accessibility, its natural isolation by reason of its elevation above the city of Honolulu, its unusual grandeur, and its proximity to Pearl Harbor, where the war began and from which the war was finally won, offer reasons which more than compensate for these additional costs. Sincerely yours, J. R. FARRINGTON, LITTLE SIOUX RIVER, IOWA Mr. ENGEL. I submit justification data for the Little Sioux River, Iowa, flood control project. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Little Sioux River, Iowa: Total estimated Federal cost Allotments to date.. Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year 1949. $3,820,000 500,000 3, 320, 000 Authorized by Public Law 341, Eightieth Congress, first session, approved August 4, 1947. The project provides for channel straightening and enlargement, construction of levees, and bridge improvements and alterations on the Little Sioux River from the mouth to Smithland, on the lower reaches of the Maple River, on Monona-Harrison ditch, and on the West Fork and Wolf Creek ditches, together with a desilting basin on the latter two ditches. No funds have been appropriated for this project and no work has been accomplished. An amount of $500,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year 1949. This amount will be allocated to the initiation of channel improvement work and to the construction of levees. The amount of $500,000 for the fiscal year 1949 will carry the project to 13 percent completion. The improvement would protect the Little Sioux River Basin within the Missouri River flood plain against flooding from a recurrence of past free-flow floods of record since 1891 on the Little Sioux River, Maple River, West Fork of the Little Sioux River, Wolf Creek, and the Monona-Harrison ditch and would reduce flood damages along the Farmers' and Garretson ditches. The towns of Turin and Hornick, Iowa, would be protected against flooding. The people residing in this area would be protected against the hazard of constantly recurring floods. The average annual benefits for flood control are estimated at $213,000 with a benefit to cost ratio of 1.22:1. OPTIMA RESERVOIR, OKLA. Mr. ENGEL. I also submit justification data for the Optima Reservoir, Okla., a flood-control project. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Optima Reservoir, Okla.: Total estimated Federal cost. Allotments to date.... Tentative allocation, fiscal year 1949.. Additional to complete after fiscal year 1949 _ $15, 600, 000 25,000 1, 000, 000 14, 575, 000 Authorized by the 1936 Flood Control Act. The project provides an earth-fill dam for flood control and irrigation. The dam would be 10,800 feet long, rising 80 feet above the valley floor on the North Canadian River about 623 miles above its confluence with the South Canadian River and 41⁄2 miles northeast of Hardesty, Texas County, Okla. The reservoir will have a total capacity of 260,000 acre-feet. Construction has not been started. Preliminary planning work has been completed. An amount of $1,000,000 can be profitably expended during fiscal year 1949. This amount would be allocated to construction of preliminary features of the project, and initiation of construction on the embankment and spillway. This project is a unit in the authorized plan of improvement in the Arkansas River Basin. It will provide flood protection to the North Canadian River Valley and the Canadian and Arkansas River Valleys downstream therefrom where frequent flooding now prevents full utilization of the rich agricultural lands. It will also afford protection to the railroad and highway facilities and other property in the valley. A high degree of protection will be provided to 155,000 acres of land in the North Canadian Valley above Oklahoma City, Okla., which has a value in excess of $46,000,000 and a population in excess of 16,000. Crop values in the area are in excess of $1,000,000. The flood of October 1923 caused flood losses in excess of $4,000,000 in this area. Irrigation for about 6,000 acres will be provided. The average annual benefits are estimated at $695,000. CARTHAGE, Mo. Mr. ENGEL. I submit, also for the record the justification data for the Carthage, Mo. project. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Carthage, Mo.: Total estimated Federal cost (revised as of December 1947), $185,000, The project is recommended for adoption in the report titled, "Arkansas River and Tributaries, Flood Protection for Carthage and Monett, Missouri," House Document No. 445, Eightieth Congress, Second session. That report is now before the Public Works Committee of the House of Representatives. The project provides for a levee 1 mile long, with appurtenant works, beginning at high ground near the intersection of Central Avenue and United States Highway No. 66, and running along the west bank of Carter Creek to the upper end of the millrace, thence across the millrace and along the south bank of Spring River, crossing the downstream end of the millrace and extending to high ground near Garrison Avenue. Gates would be provided at the crossings of the millrace and a small sanitary sewage-pumping plant would be installed near the downstream end of the levee. No funds have been appropriated for this project and no work has been accomplished. The project would protect the city of Carthage against the maximum flood that may reasonably be expected to occur on Spring River with a freeboard of 2 feet. The average annual benefits for flood control are estimated at $10,200 with a benefit to cost ratio of 1.57 to 1.0. MONETT, MO. Mr. ENGEL. Also, the justification data for the Monett, Mo., project will be placed in the record. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Monett, Mo.: Total estimated Federal cost (revised as of December 1947)... $556, 000 The project is recommended for adoption in the report titled, "Arkansas River and Tributaries, Flood Protection for Carthage and Monett, Missouri," House Document No. 445, Eightieth Congress, second session. That report is now before the Public Works Committee of the House of Representatives. The project provides for construction of a channel for diverting the flow of Kelly Creek from the business section of the city in Barry County to pass through a less developed area in Lawrence County. The improvement would include the 1.8 miles of leveed floodway, 0.8 mile of cut through the divide and 1.6 miles of unleveed floodway. Construction of two new highway bridges and reconstruction of one railroad bridge would be necessary. No funds have been appropriated for this project and no work has been accomplished. The project would provide a freeboard of 2 feet above the maximum flood which can be reasonably expected on Kelly Creek. It would protect the city of Monett against recurring flood damages. The average annual benefits are estimated at $26,100 with a benefit to cost ratio of 1.02 to 1.0. CHERRY VALLEY RESERVOIR, CALIF. Mr. ENGEL. Also, I submit the same for Cherry Valley Reservoir, Calif., another flood-control project. (The matter referred is as follows:) Cherry Valley Reservoir, Calif.: Total estimated Federal cost.. Allotments to date... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year 1949. $6, 200, 000 10,000 1, 000, 000 5, 190, 000 The project provides for payment to local interests for flood-control storage to be provided in the Cherry Valley Reservoir proposed for initiation of construction by local interests in fiscal year 1949 in the interest of water conservation including domestic water supply, power and flood control. The project will consist of a concrete gravity dam located on Cherry Creek, a tributary of Tuolumne River. Construction has not been started and no funds have been provided for construction during the fiscal year 1948. An amount of $1,000,000 can be profitably expended during the fiscal year 1949 as a contribution to local interests in order that local interests may utilize these funds and their own funds to initiate construction. The allocation of $1,000,000 in Federal funds in conjunction with local interests' funds will be applied by local interests as follows: Initiate excavation for Cherry Valley Dam and for tunnel from Cherry Valley Reservoir to existing Eleanor Lake Reservoir; and begin pouring of concrete for the dam. With the expenditure of the amount of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 1949, in conjunction with local interests' expenditures, the project for initial flood storage on Tuolumne River will be about 20 percent complete. The project is an integral unit in the comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes, of San Joaquin River and tributaries, California. It will afford protection from floods to an area of 140,000 acres of agricultural lands and of several small settlements in which damages in 1938 alone aggregated $2,500,000. It will also improve land use in some of the areas now having a low degree of protection. In addition it will improve the protection to a portion of the industrial area of South Stockton, the United States Army Ordnance Depot and the Rough and Ready Island-United States Naval Depot, all at the mouth of old San Joaquin River. The average annual flood benefits from the ultimate Federal contribution are estimated at $596,000. In addition to the flood-control benefits, local interests will obtain additional benefits from water conservation and augmentation of the domestic water supply which are urgently needed, as well as increased power output which can be used to supply a rapidly growing market. GRAND TRAVERSE BAY HARBOR, MICH. Mr. ENGEL. Finally, I submit the justification on Grand Traverse Bay Harbor, Mich., which is a river and harbor project. (The matter referred to is as follows:) Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works, fiscal year 1949 Grand Traverse Bay Harbor, Mich.: Total estimated Federal cost__ Tentative allocation, fiscal year 1949. Authorization: 1945 River and Harbor Act. $200, 000 9, 500 190, 500 Location and description: Eastern shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula about 20 miles northeasterly from Portage entry to Keweenaw Waterway. Provide channel 12 feet deep, 50 feet wide, protected by parallel piers, and a harbor basin 10 feet deep, 200 by 450 feet. Operations, 1948: Planning. Proposed operations, fiscal year 1949: Complete project. Justification: Will provide a link in the chain of harbors of refuge on Lake Superior for small craft. Harbor also is presently used by commercial fishing vessels. |