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Volume 45 · 1229

Public Law 70–265

To authorize a preliminary survey of Mud Creek in Kentucky with a view to the control of its floods.

Approved February 19, 1929

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize a preliminary survey of Mud Creek in Kentucky with a view to the control of its floods.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary survey to be made of Mud Creek in Kentucky from Mining City, at which point said creek empties into Green River, up to a point twenty-five or thirty miles in distance where a drainage project has been started by owners of

Report to Congress.

the land on and near said creek, with a view to the control of its floods. Also to submit a report to Congress as to the feasibility of controlling the said flood waters by a drainage project, together with an estimate of the cost of said improvement.

Approved, February 19, 1929.

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