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RE S 0LUTI ON NO 1645 RESOLUTION URGING THE EIGBTY- TB3:RD CONGRESS ( SECOND SESSION) TO IL KE AVAILABLE THE NECESSARY FUNDS 7ITH TEICH TO CARRY OUT THE FORK INVOLVED IN THE IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR REDWOOD CITY HARBOR WHICH WERE INCLUDED IN THE RIVER AND HARBOR ACT OF MARCH 2, 1945, AND THE RIVER AND HARBOR ACT OF 1950 APPROVED SAY 17, 1950. WIFIMS, Congress has enacted legislation providing for a 30 foot channel n.l.l.w., between the Port of San Francisco and Redwood City Harbor and within the Harbor, with minimum width of 300 feet; and WHEREAS, critical defense materials and-other commodities including cement, salt, gypsum rock magnesite and petroleum products, in bulk, are being shipped in large volmne into or out of the harbor; . and c a"S, large canners and shippers of canned goods and processors, packers and shippers of dried fruit located in the Santa Clara Valley and on the lower San Francisco Peninsula have, on various occasions, through written sworn state- ments filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission or testimony given under oath before examiners of the Commission, expressed their desire to route their ship- ments via the fort of Redwood City instead of via upper Bay ports; and NHEREA.S, steamship operators whose vessels are now calling at the Port to discharge or load cargo are experiencing a great deal of trouble and delays to their vessels entering and departing by reason of insufficiency of channel depth and width; and tiTHEREAS, the Port with adequate depth and width of channel is essential to the continued growth and development of San Mateo County and all of the other counties in the South San Francisco Bay area and is also essential to the national defense as was illustrated during World War II; and 17HEREAS, considerable sums of money have already been expended by the Federal Government, the City of Redwood City and private interests in the development of Redwood City Harbor and its facilities and the expenditure of additional sums at this time to carry out the work involved in the Improvement Projects already approved and enacted into law by Congress is fully justified and in the public interest; and MIM