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Show 417 in effect.138 And where the Chief of Engineers approves a smaller structure than authorized in order to complete "a use- ful improvement within an authorization," such smaller struc- ture must be so located that it will be feasible later to enlarge the work to permit full utilization of the site for "all purposes of conservation such as flood control, navigation, reclamation, the development of hydroelectric power, and the abatement of pol- lution." 184 In addition, by 1987 legislation, provision is made for use of flood-control projects for the purpose of domestic water supply.185 One policy of Congress respecting comprehensive develop- ment is expressed in the following provision applicable to flood- control and navigation improvements, which Congress first in- corporated in the 1944 Flood Control Act, and which has since been made applicable in each Flood Control and River and Har- bor Act:136 In connection with the exercise of jurisdiction over the rivers of the Nation through the construction of works of improvement, for navigation or flood control, as herein authorized, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to recognize the interests and rights of the States in determining the development of the watersheds within their borders and likewise their interests and rights in water utilization and control, as herein author- ized to preserve and protect to the fullest possible extent established and potential uses, for all purposes, of the waters of the Nation's rivers; to facilitate the considera- tion of projects on a basis of comprehensive and coordi- nated development; and to limit the authorization and construction of navigation works to those in which a sub- 188 See supra, pp. 134-135,402. 184 Act of August 18, 1941, § 2, 55 Stat. 638, 33 U. S. C. 701m. See also H. Rep. No. 759, 77th Cong., 1st sess., p. 6 (1941). 185 Act of July 19, 1937, § 1, 50 Stat. 515, 518, 33 U. S. C. 701h; see also supra, pp. 139-140, 323. 188 Act of December 22,1944, § 1, 58 Stat. 887; Act of March 2,1945, § 1, 59 Stat. 10; Act of July 24,1946, § 1, 60 Stat. 634; Act of July 24, 1946, § 2, 60 Stat. 641; Act of June 30,1948, §§ 101, 202, 62 Stat. 1171,1172,1175; Act of May 17, 1950, §§ 101, 202, 64 Stat. 163, -. |
