Letter from United States Brigadier General Potter to Representative Burdick Regarding the Budget for Projects of the Missouri Basin, January 21, 1955

Letter from United States Brigadier General Potter to Representative Burdick Regarding the Budget for Projects of the Missouri Basin, January 21, 1955

W.E. Potter

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This letter from United States Brigadier General W.E. Potter of the Army Engineers to United States Representative Usher L. Burdick dated October 1, 1945 states that Potter has prepared an analysis of the funds recently announced by the President’s budget for the United States Corp of Engineers, of which, the total proposed is $79,810,000.00 for projects under construction in the basin, with $20,000,000.00 appropriated for the Garrison Dam. The letter goes on to outline specific dam projects in South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming and their proposed budgetary expenditures.