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Show 374 the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice, and to state agencies.128 Flood-Control Legislation We have previously discussed flood-control legislation, prin- cipally in its relation to navigable waters and their tributaries, and in its relation to authorization of drainage operations.129 Our attention here will be focused upon recognition by Con- gress that damage from floods may be mitigated through appli- cation of measures for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on watersheds. Elsewhere we quoted at length from the congressional dec- laration of a national flood-control policy in 1936.130 Suffice it here to repeat that Congress there asserted that flood control on navigable waters or their tributaries is a proper federal activity in cooperation with states, that flood-control investi- gations and improvements of waterways, "including water- sheds thereof," are in the interest of the general welfare.131 In addition to the jurisdiction assigned to the Army Engineers, the 1936 Flood Control Act directed that "Federal investiga- tions of watersheds and measures for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil erosion prevention on watersheds" shall be under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture.132 The 1936 Act, however, authorized only investigations and surveys in specific localities, not works of improvement.133 128 Act of July 22,1937, § 32, 50 Stat. 522, 525, 7 U. S. C. 1011 (c) ; see, e. g., Secretary of Agriculture Administrative Order, February 4,1944,9 F. R. 1538 (Forest Service) ; Ex. O. No. 10,046, March 24,1949,14 F. R. 1375 (Bureau of Land Management) ; Public Land Order 205, January 27, 1944, 9 F. R. 1536 (Fish and Wildlife Service) ; Report of the Chief of the Son. Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Table5, p. 18 (1941) (state agencies). 129 See supra, pp. 316-317. 530 Act of June 22,1936, § 1, 49 Stat. 1570, 33 U. S. C. 701; see supra, p. 131. 181 Id. See also 80 Cong. Rec. 7574, 7577, 7579 (1936). 182 § 2, 49 Stat. 1570, 33 U. S. C. 701b. 188 § 6, 49 Stat. 1592. |