Public Law 85–783

JOINT RESOLUTION

To approve the report of the Department of the Interior on Red Willow Dam and Reservoir in Nebraska.

Whereas the Red Willow Dam and Reservoir in Nebraska was authorized to be constructed by the Corps of Engineers in the 1944 Flood Control Act (58 Stat. 887); and

Whereas, by the Act of May 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 126), the Congress transferred such construction responsibility to the Secretary of the Interior but provided therein that no expenditure of funds shall be made for such construction until the Secretary of the Interior submitted to Congress a report demonstrating the Red Willow project to be economically justified, and Congress approved such report; and

Whereas the Department of the Interior has completed a report on the engineering and economic feasibility of the proposed Red Willow Dam and Reservoir: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Approved August 27, 1958.