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(From p. 2&)
 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 It is concluded that the project covered herein constitutes a public necessity
and is of real social value. The project will afford much employment to many
classes of skilled and unskilled labor; that the design is in accord with sound
engineering practice, and that the project is economically sound.
 It is recommended that the loan, with or without the grant, be made.
 The above summary report was apparently approved by all appro-
priate officials of the Public Works Administration with the excep-
tion of the Administrator. Approval of the Administrator was ap-
parently withheld, and no further action was taken by the Public
Works Administration until some 15 months later (January 1935)
when a second suminary report was made, based not upon the lock
canal project dealt with by the first summary report but upon the
sea-level canal project and figures and findings of the reports of the
President's Board of Review (dated June 28, 1934, and September
15, 1934, respectively; Documents Nos. 49 and 53). This latter proj-
ect was disapproved by the Administrator on January 29, 1935, with-
out record examination or study by the engineering and other
departments of the Public Works Administration.


DOCUMENT NO. 40 (FILES OF SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE),
 OCTOBER 21, 1933

ACTION BY ATLANTIC DEEzE WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION, IN CONVEN-
 TION AT BotroN, OCTOBER 21, 1933

 The Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, in convention at
Boston, October 21, 1932, adopted the following resolution:
 It is obvious that this waterway connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the
Atlantic Ocean is an essential link in the national system. The Army engineers
have been engaged for more than a year in an investigation with a view of
determining the most available route and the appropriate dimensions for such
a waterway. No report has as yet been submitted. We have no recommenda-
tions to submit as to the route, having faith that the engineers will select the
route best suited for commerce. However, we do submit the opinion that the
depth and width of this waterway should conform to the draft of vessels which
will seek to use it. Measured by this yardstick we believe this waterway
should have a minimum depth of 30 feet with a view to accommodating vessels
with a loaded draft of 28 feet If a canal of such dimensions is essential, then
the initial construction should conform thereto, in the interest of economy and
the promotion of commerce.

DOCUMENT NO. 41 (FILES OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ASSOCIATION),
 NOVEMBER 28, 1933

 ACTION BY THE MISISSIsPPI VALLEY AssoCIATION, AT ST. Louis, Mo.,
 NOVEMBER 28, 1933

 At its annual convention in St. Louis on November 28, 1933, the
 Mississippi Valley Association adopted the following resolution:
 We reaffirm our recommendation of * the development of the intra-
 coastal canal from Its present terminus of Apalachicola River, and the exten-
 sion of this latter canal through the adoption of a Gulf-Atlantic waterway,