Volume 50 · 864
Public Law 75–867
To provide for preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers.
Approved August 28, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds of the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys for run-off and water-flow retardation and soil-erosion prevention on the watersheds, including all tributaries, of the Rio Grande and Pecos Rivers, above the point of their confluence, in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided
for those localities named in section 6 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of certain public works on rivers and harbors for flood control, and for other purposes”, approved June
Payment of cost.
22, 1936; the cost thereof to be paid from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of such section.
Approved, August 28, 1937.