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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 665. Survey for debris reservoirs; study of methods of mines and mining
It shall further examine, survey, and determine the utility and
practicability, for the purposes hereinafter indicated, of storage
sites in the tributaries of said rivers and in the respective
branches of said tributaries, or in the plains, basins, sloughs,
and tule and swamp lands adjacent to or along the course of said
rivers, for the storage of debris or water or as settling
reservoirs, with the object of using the same by either or all of
these methods to aid in the improvement and protection of said
navigable rivers by preventing deposits therein of debris resulting
from mining operations, natural erosion, or other causes, or for
affording relief thereto in flood time and providing sufficient
water to maintain scouring force therein in the summer season; and
in connection therewith to investigate such hydraulic and other
mines as are or may have been worked by methods intended to
restrain the debris and material moved in operating such mines by
impounding dams, settling reservoirs, or otherwise, and in general
to make such study of and researches in the hydraulic mining
industry as science, experience, and engineering skill may suggest
as practicable and useful in devising a method or methods whereby
such mining may be carried on as aforesaid.
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