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1972 · 64072 — Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1972. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. Usual library markings noted. Front page creased. iii 89 p.; 24 cm. S.3449 was a bill to authorize and direct the Water Resources Council to coordinate a national program to insure the safety of dams and toher water storage and control structures to provide technical support to state programs for the licensing and inspection of such structures to encourage adequate state safety laws and methods of implementation thereof and for other purposes. This hearing was held in the aftermath of several tragic floods including the Buffalo Creek Valley flood of February 26 1972 in West Virginia which claimed at least 118 lives and the flood in June 1972 in the vacinity of Rapid City South Dakota which killed over 200 people and involved the failure of the Canyon Lake Dam. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback