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Now, another budget is before Congress, and the total amount involved sets a peacetime record for such Presidential documents. Last year, the ' President recommended against starting new public works projects in 1960. For fiscal year 1%1, however, Mr. Eisenhower is asking money for ten new local flood protection projects and two new reservoir projects, as w’ell as eight new channel and harbor and two new lock and dam projects, y Tie overall appropriation for riversi and harbors and flood control cbnstrwCffon work by the Army FThgtffeers, including projects already underway and the new ones the President proposes starting. is described thus in the budget:
“The requested appropriation of $718.4 million represents an increase of $57 million compared with the amount appropriated for 1960 and an increase of $110.2 million compared with 1959.”
The Army Engineers money, of course, is not the only money in the budget for federal public works. Other hundreds of millions for example, are requested for the big projects of the Reclamation Service in the West.
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