Volume 50 · 166
Public Law 75–185
To authorize a preliminary examination and survey of Santa Maria River with a view to the control of its floods.
Approved May 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize a preliminary examination and survey of Santa Maria River 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 examination and survey to be made of the Santa Maria River and its tributaries, in the State of California, and the. Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a preliminary examination and survey to be made for run-off and water flow retardation and soil erosion prevention on the watershed of the said river, with a view to the control of its floods, in
accordance with the provisions of the Flood Control Act approved June 22, 1936, the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for such purposes.
Approved, May 14, 1937.