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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 702b. Local contribution toward cost of flood control work
It is declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of
local contribution toward the cost of flood control work, which has
been incorporated in all previous national legislation 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. As a full compliance with this
principle in view of the great expenditure estimated at
approximately $292,000,000, prior to May 15, 1928, made by the
local interests in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River for
protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent
of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests
of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the
movement of the United States mails; and, in view of the gigantic
scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and
flowing from a drainage area largely outside the States most
affected, and far exceeding those of any other river in the United
States, no local contribution to the project herein adopted is
required.
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