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Show 551 operation should be required.297 And while there is no general requirement of local contribution as a condition precedent, Congress has stipulated such requirements from time to time on a project-by-project basis. This is usually accomplished by authorization for the prosecution of a project "in accordance with the plans and subject to the conditions recommended by the Chief of Engineers in the respective reports" designated.298 Unlike navigation projects, however, a general requirement for local contribution to the cost of flood protection has been established by Congress, but it is inapplicable in the case of dam and reservoir projects.299 On other Army Engineer flood- control improvements, such as levees, no money appropriated therefor may be expended until states or other local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the necessary lands will be provided, and that other cooperative requirements will be fulfilled.800 Moreover, authorization of such a project expires within five years from the date of notifi- cation to the local interests of the requirements of local co- operation, unless such local interests furnish within that time satisfactory assurances that such cooperation will be fur- nished.801 In the case of Reclamation projects authorized under the 1939 Reclamation Project Act, nonreimbursable allocations to navigation and flood control are permissible.302 But there is no requirement for local contribution in connection with such 297 Act of June 5, 1920, § 2, 41 Stat. 1009, 1010, 33 U. S. O. 547. 298 See, e. g., Act of May 17, 1950, § 101, 64 Stat. 163, -; see also supra, n. 175, p. 106. *"" See supra, pp. 144-145. In a statute enacted prior to the assumption of federal responsibility for flood control on a nation-wide basis, Congress de- clared "that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of flood- control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legisla- tion on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national interest." Act of May 15,1928, § 2, 45 Stat 534, 535, 33 XL S. O. 702b. "•Act of June 22, 1936, § 3, 49 Stat. 1570, 1571, as amended, 33 U. S. O. 701c. See supra, pp. 144-146. ""See supra, pp. 145-146. 802 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(b), 53 Stat. 1187, 1194, 43 U.S. C. 485h(b). |
