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H. Rept. 115-210 1 (2017-07-11)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaabp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Gp 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-210 SAINT FRANCIS DAM DISASTER NATIONAL MEMORIAL ACT JULY 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 2156] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2156) to provide for the establishment of a national me- morial and national monument to commemorate those killed by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 2156 is to provide for the establishment of a national memorial and national monument to commemorate those killed by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam on March 12, 1928. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The Saint Francis Dam was one of several large infrastructure projects constructed in the early 20th century to help control the flow of water to southern California. On March 12th, 1928, the dam breached, resulting in significant flooding that took more than 400 lives in Los Angeles County, California.1 This failure is consid- ered one of the worst civil engineering failures in the 20th century and resulted in the resignation of William Mulholland as head of ' Harrison, Scott. California Retrospective St. Francis Dam Collapse Left a Trail of Death and Destruction. The L.A. Times 19 March 2016, http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me- stfrancis-dam-retrospective- 20160319-story.html. 69-006