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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
BUREAU OF THE BUDGET
WASHINGTON, 25, D. C.
JUN 11 1945
My dear Mr. Latta:
The Congress has enacted H. J. Res. 208, "Making an appropriation
for emergency flood-control work and for other purposes."
On June 6, 1945, the President approved S. 938, which authorized
an appropriation of $12,000,000 as an emergency fund for expenditure
under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the repair, restoration,
and strengthening of levees and other flood-control works which have
been threatened or destroyed by recent floods, or which may be threatened
or destroyed by later occurring floods.
Section 1 of the enrolled enactment, H. J. Res. 208, appropriates,
pursuant to the foregoing authorizing legislation, the sum of $12,000,000
to permit the carrying out of this emergency flood-control repair work.
Section 2 of the bill reappropriates and makes available until
June 30, 1946, the sum of $2,000,000 of the balance of an appropriation
of $15,000,000 heretofore made, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary
of Agriculture to make loans and grants to farmers whose property has
been or may be destroyed or damaged by 1945 floods, and to service loans
heretofore made to farmers in connecti on with losses suffered in earlier
floods.
Section 3 of the bill appropriates an additional amount, for the
fiscal year 1946, for "Flood control, general" (War Department Civil
Appropriation Act, 1946) of $8,055,000, to be immediately available to
the War Department so as to permit the early undertaking and completion
of urgently needed flood-control projects. The sum appropriated is
identical in amount ith the estimate of appropriation which the President
heretofore submitted to the Congress for this purpose.
This office has been advised, informally, by the War Department
and the Department of Agriculture that they recommend approval of the bill.
I recommend that the bill be approved.
Very truly yours,
Mr. M. C. Latta,
Director.
The Whi1 te House.
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